What

svscr stands for 'save screenshot' and does exactly that. If you have an image saved in your clipboard, this command line tool will save it into a file. It can be used with any picture in the clipboard, not just screenshots.

This tool was created for and tested on Windows 10, but you can probably build it on Linux too.

Why

svscr is a quick and dirty way to save a clipped screenshot or a picture from a browser to any folder with any name using your terminal. Primarily used to screencap jack's discord messages.

How

Put an image into your clipboard somehow and call svscr. This will create a .png image in user's home directory with a timestamp for file name. This directory is platform specific. An example of such name: 2024-05-19-131457.png.

You can supply a positional argument NAME with desired file name. This argument can also have file path and file extension. If the supplied path is relative it is appended to user's home folder path. If it is absolute, it will replace the default path.

-d or --dir can be optionally used to supply a target directory to save the file to. If you supply directory with this flag and within file name, then they will be concatenated. E.g. svscr inner/pic -d outer will create a file with this path: .../outer/inner/pic.png.

-x or --extension can be used to add an extension to your file. It will override the extension you supply within file name. E.g. svscr pic.png -x webp will save pic.webp, not pic.png.

Installation

Either

• download the latest release from GitHub
• if you have Rust and Cargo installed, execute

cargo install svscr

• or just clone the repo and build it yourself

Credits

• anyhow
• arboard
• chrono
• clap
• home
• image
• jack