How to start QuickTime video recording on a MacBook at the command line?
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1) Create a Applescript by AppleScript Editor and save it (e.g. QTRecord.scpt):
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
start (new movie recording)
end tell
2) Open Terminal and run the script in command line:
osascript QTRecord.scpt
Or the whole thing as an one-liner:
osascript -e 'tell application "QuickTime Player" to activate' -e 'tell application "QuickTime Player" to start (new movie recording)'
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How do you know those parameters ? Apple script editor 'Record' function, don't provide that... @ohho Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 5:49
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2@CodeFarmer Using Xcode, open QuickTImePlayerX.sdef, located Inside the Contents folder of the Quicktime Player X package. Commented Dec 2, 2016 at 9:49
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Another way to check the commands in a more readable way is to open the .app bundle in Script Editor using File → Open Dictionary...– gregoCommented Jan 20, 2022 at 21:18
According to this site, it can be done using Applescript
tell application "QuickTime Player"
set nr to (new movie recording)
set nr to start recording true
delay 10
set nr to stop recording true
end tell
So it interacts with Quick-time. There are no direct commands with QuickTime.
answered Jun 19, 2012 at 1:18
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Compiling the above code gives a syntax error:
Expected end of line, etc. but found “true”.– ohhoCommented Jun 19, 2012 at 1:46
To start a QuickTime recording at the command line on a Mac, you can use the osascript command to execute AppleScript code. Here's an example script that you can use:
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
start (new movie recording)
delay 1 -- Optional delay to give QuickTime time to start recording
end tell
To execute this AppleScript code from the command line, you can create a file with a .scpt extension, for example, start_recording.scpt, and then run the following command in the terminal:
osascript /path/to/start_recording.scpt
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