UGrabCam: Unix Webcam Archive Tool

After looking for a Unix tool that would archive webcams I gave up. None of them did what I wanted. I wanted to beable to archive the images, create thumbnails, and view them via my web browser. What I came up with is UGrabCam.

Below you can view an example of what UGrabCam can do. I run this script out of my crontab and it creates all the html pages, thumbnails, and zipfiles on the fly.

[ Click on the image above to view the Example Archive ]

Required to get UGrabCam to work

• UGrabCam.pl (Perl Version)
  http://ugrabcam-pl.sourceforge.net/UGrabCam.pl-0.01Beta/
• Image::Grab
  http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Image/Image-Grab-1.1.tar.gz
• convert from ImageMagick (Need for both versions)
  http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html

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• Old UGrabCam (Bash Version)
  http://www.230volts.net/ugrabcam/download/
• convert from ImageMagick (Need for both versions)
  http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html
  
• zip (only if you want to create zipfiles for download)
  http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/Zip.html

• You'll need to get both bash and wget from one of the below
  ftp://ftp.hawaii.edu/mirrors/gnu
  ftp://ftp.ms.uky.edu/pub3/gnu
  ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/gnu
  ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/gnu
  ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/gnu
  ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/gnu/prep
  ftp://jaguar.utah.edu/gnustuff/
  ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU
  ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/gnu
  ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu
  ftp://gnu.egr.msu.edu/pub/gnu
  ftp://ftp.uu.net/archive/systems/gnu
  

If you have a question about UGrabCam please send me E-mail. I would like to know if anyone is using this besides me.

My Personal Webcam

[ Started Dec. 2 1998 ]

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