# Installer imagesnap avec Homebrew, MacPorts Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de imagesnap pour les workflows d'agents IA. ## installation ```sh sudo av install brew:imagesnap ``` Commandes d'installation supplémentaires: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install imagesnap ``` Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install ImageSnap ``` Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/ImageSnap/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Faits du paquet - **Clé du paquet:** brew:imagesnap - **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew - **Version:** 0.3.0.2 - **Résumé source:** Tool to capture still images from an iSight or other video source - **Page d'accueil:** - **Dépôt:** - **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## exécutables - imagesnap (alias) ## Comportement d'installation - Bouteille: non disponible ## Version et fraîcheur - page générée: 2026-08-03 - version du gestionnaire: 0.3.0.2 ## Historique du projet et usages ImageSnap is a macOS command-line camera capture utility by Robert Harder. It saves still images from the built-in iSight or other video devices, making webcam snapshots scriptable from the terminal. ### Historique du projet Robert Harder's older iHarder Mac OS X utilities page describes ImageSnap as a successor path after Axel Bauer's `isightcapture`, with the goal of adapting command-line camera capture to Apple's changing architectures. The GitHub README identifies Robert Harder as the original author and documents the tool as public-domain software. The project lived for years as an Objective-C utility, then gained a Swift rewrite using AVFoundation in the 0.3.0 series. The README notes that the Swift rewrite modernized the media stack but raised the macOS requirement to Ventura-era systems, while older Objective-C versions remain available from tags and releases. ### Historique d'adoption ImageSnap became a small but recognizable Mac package-manager tool because it does one thing Unix users expect to script: take a camera snapshot without opening a full camera app. The README names Homebrew and MacPorts as common installation paths, and Homebrew analytics show a steady low-thousands yearly install base. Its package adoption is tied to automation scenarios such as quick webcam captures, simple time-lapse scripts, hardware checks, and headless-ish Mac workflows where AVFoundation access can still be granted through macOS camera permissions. ### Modes d'utilisation The `imagesnap` command captures to `snapshot.jpg` by default, accepts a filename as the final argument, lists cameras with `-l`, selects a device with `-d`, and supports time-lapse captures with `-t` and `-n`. It can write common formats such as JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, and BMP based on the output filename extension. The README documents a warmup delay, because real cameras need time after activation before a frame is useful. The tool also has to participate in macOS camera permission prompts the first time it is used. ### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent ImageSnap is package-nerd useful because it exposes an Apple media-framework feature as a tiny, scriptable binary. It is the kind of package people install once for a build lab, kiosk, CI-adjacent hardware check, or personal automation and then forget until they need a camera frame from a shell script. ### Chronologie - 2010s: iHarder described ImageSnap as a way forward from the older `isightcapture` utility. - 2017: Version 0.2.6 appeared in GitHub releases. - 2021: The 0.2.x series continued with camera-capture maintenance releases. - 2023: Version 0.2.16 was released before the Swift rewrite line. - 2026: Version 0.3.0 introduced a Swift rewrite using AVFoundation. ### Related projects - The historical comparison is Axel Bauer's `isightcapture`, which ImageSnap's original project page explicitly mentions. Within package managers, Homebrew and MacPorts both carry ImageSnap for macOS camera capture. ### Sources - - - - - ## Notes de sécurité broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Risque Geiger:** blue / moyen - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets - MacPorts - ImageSnap: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/ImageSnap/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/imagesnap.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/imagesnap.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph