screenshot, screen-recording, ocr, and uploader for wlroots wayland compositors.
works on: hyprland, sway, niri, river. kde plasma screenshots via kwin's ScreenShot2 and now records via kwin's screencast protocol; gnome is recording-only (mutter's screencast d-bus api). both go through pipewire with no portal dialog. not supported: x11.
see https://void.creations.works/
see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grabit
media-gfx/grabit in the roxy-overlay.
nix run git+https://heliopolis.live/creations/grabit.git -- --helpmake
sudo make installbuild deps:
json-c libcurl libmagic wayland-client wayland-cursor cairo libxkbcommon libdbus-1
optional: libjpeg libwebp for jpeg/webp output.
runtime: ffmpeg for --record, tesseract for --tesseract.
- region selector with live freeze; drag, or click a window to snap
- confirm mode, flameshot-style: adjust the selection before capturing
-F/--fullscreengrabs one monitor, or every monitor stitched together-w/--windowgrabs the active window (hyprland, and niri via its own window screenshot)-L/--lastreuses the last region instead of selecting one, screenshots and--recordalike--delay <secs>waits before capturing, so menus and tooltips stay open- annotator (
-e): pen, marker, line, rect, rounded rect, ellipse, arrow, blur, pixelate, spotlight, text, counter, callout, eraser - color picker with hex input and an eyedropper that samples the freeze
--recordregion recording with overlay and tray icon; mp4, webm, or gif (demo)--pinpins captures to the desktop: click-through, stackable, draggable--traypersistent tray icon with every action in its menu- uploads to six built-in hosts or any sharex
.sxcuuploader --tesseract --translateOCRs a region and copies the translation
- OPTIONS.md - configuration keys, auth tokens, sharex uploaders, keybinds, filename templates
- PLUGINS.md - plugin cli, manifest format, helper header
- primary: https://heliopolis.live/creations/grabit
- github mirror: https://github.com/Creationsss/grabit
agpl-3.0-or-later. see LICENSE.