libscreenshot

A cross-platform library for screenshot creation.

Features:

• Easy cross-platform creation of screenshots
• Supports several types of screenshots
  • Window capture (focused window, by window id)
  • Screen capture (current screen, by screen id)
  • Full capture (all screens and windows)
  • Area capture

Limitations:

• Varying degrees of support for specific platforms (see Platform Support)
• For window capture, the window will be captured without the title area (except on macOS)

We are actively working on removing all of those limitations.

Platform Support

Platform	Window	Area	Screen	Full
Windows	✅	❌	❌	❌
Linux	✅	✅	❌	✅
macOS	✅	❌	✅	❌

Usage

Installation

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
libscreenshot = { git = "https://github.com/MadrigalStreetCartel/libscreenshot" }

Features

All features are enabled by default.

• windows
  • windows_gdi
  • windows_graphics_capture: requires Windows 10 Build 1803 or later
• linux
  • linux_xorg: requires X11
  • linux_wayland: requires Wayland
• macos

Examples

Capture focused window:

let provider = libscreenshot::get_window_capture_provider().expect("Unable to find provider");
let image = provider.capture_focused_window().expect("Unable to capture focused window");
image.save("screenshot.png").expect("Unable to save image");

Capture current screen:

let provider = libscreenshot::get_screen_capture_provider().expect("Unable to find provider");
let image = provider.capture_current_screen().expect("Unable to capture screen");
image.save("screenshot.png").expect("Unable to save image");