Software to take scheduled screen captures?

Feek · 16 Apr 2019 at 15:52

I need to have a web site open on it's own separate desktop page in Windows 10 and take a screenshot of a pre-defined section of that web page at regular intervals.

I don't really use Windows very often these days so I have no idea what to consider using.

Does anyone have any suggestions please?

Ideally it would allow me to overlay a timestamp and even more ideally, automate pushing the captured image somewhere via ftp but these options aren't essential. If needed, I can script the uploading and the timestamp is just a nice to have.

Thanks.

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Apr 2019 at 16:24

Who you spying on? Feek are you not a don now?

Feek · 16 Apr 2019 at 16:33

mrbell1984 said:
Who you spying on? Feek are you not a don now?

I've been an admin (again) since August last year, do keep up

Not spying on anyone, I'm building a new ADS-B receiver that's going to be remotely located and rather than have a live feed, I want to be able to take a screenshot of the map every few minutes and upload it to a remote website. I can't think of any other way to do it than use scheduled captures on the Windows 10 PC which happens to be on site.

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Apr 2019 at 16:51

oops! - Commissario is better than moderator then

Give this a try:

https://getsharex.com/

Feek · 16 Apr 2019 at 19:14

Got it, thanks.

That’s complicated with little documentation!

I’ve managed to configure and test an ftp destination but genuinely struggling to work out how to make it actually capture and upload, never mind with a filename I want and on a schedule. It looks like it’ll do what I need providing I can get my head around it.

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Apr 2019 at 22:31

Maybe capture to a folder then use another app to automatically transfer files/folders up to ftp at a scheduled interval. It's do able, I used to use an app years ago that did exactly what you are asking BUT I have forgot the name of it and can't find that app anywhere!

AHarvey · 17 Apr 2019 at 00:57

Try Autohotkey, I use that for many things like this and there is great documentation and support on the forums.

Feek · 17 Apr 2019 at 06:46

mrbell1984 said:
I used to use an app years ago that did exactly what you are asking BUT I have forgot the name of it and can't find that app anywhere!

If you can remember this then it'll be really useful.

AHarvey said:
Try Autohotkey, I use that for many things like this and there is great documentation and support on the forums.

Thanks - I'll take a look but I wonder how well that will work on a second desktop that's not in view as what I remember, it's automating actions and can that still be done on an out-of-view desktop?

Feek · 17 Apr 2019 at 20:04

Ahah - Looks like this might do the job. I won't start the demo until I'm actually ready to use it (the receiver isn't built yet) and hopefully the 30 day trial will give me time to make it work and if so, I'll buy the full version. It looks promising from the description.