Automating Screenshots with Claude Code

4 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by pb33f
(quobix.com)

7 Comments

user

12 hours ago

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virtualritz

12 hours ago

I'm on Linux.

I press F11, select the region and click and then Ctrl-V paste the image into Claude or Codex CLI.

Does this not work on macOS?

pb33f

11 hours ago

There may be a mode to do this using the existing screen capture, I have not tried all the combinations, normally it saves either the entire screen or a region based on the key combo, but as far as I have tested does not copy to the clipboard or autopaste.

virtualritz

11 hours ago

So you solved a problem you didn't first confirm you factually had. :D

I googled "capture screen region on macos".

TLDR; works on macOS (you set it to capture to clipboard instead of PNG). And then press Cmd+V in your LLM CLI ...

pb33f

9 hours ago

> So you solved a problem you didn't first confirm you factually had. :D

Claude did actually :)

> (you set it to capture to clipboard instead of PNG)

What is the key combination to do this? and have it auto paste into the right terminal window I was in?

vunderba

11 hours ago

Macs have configurable global shortcuts for copying screen or selected areas directly to the clipboard which you can then paste directly into CC.

pb33f

9 hours ago

Or use this and have it done automatically :)