macOS Aotomator Task

[lesmith]

Hey All

Hope someone can point me in the right direction with this.

I would like to take a series of print screens at x seconds apart when a particular application is open.

Can this sort of thing be done with Automator ?

If so how can this be achieved ?

Really hope someone can point me into the right direction.

Thank you if you can

 

[ccamelot]

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Hi, I don't think so it can be doable by Automator. Looks possible with applescript. You can detect open apps:

tell application "System Events" to set open_applications to (get name of every application process)

or you can check only if one app is running:

tell application "System Events" to set ical_opened to (name of processes) contains "iCal"

and then (if desired app is opened) do screenshot using:

set picPath to ((POSIX path of (path to desktop)) & "YourScreenshot.png") as string
do shell script "screencapture " & quoted form of picPath

Les