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.

For my example below I'm using my friends webcam. He has an SGI with an Indycam on it. The images are 640x480, which is kinda large. I scale them down but you don't need to do this. I was running out of disk space. The thumbnails are only 50x38 so they should load quick enough for most people.

NEW: Just added a Perl Version BETA. This is still not done but it WORKSs and adds regular expression strings. (Kinda, download it and see what I mean).

NOTE: UGrabCam really doesn't do anything with the actual camera. All it does is grab an image off a website and archives it. It doesn't take the picture and upload it to a website. There are other tools that do that. I do have a small bash script that works on the SGI o2. You can see what it does by spying on me.

The places to start looking for Webcam Camera Software (take a image from you coamera and places it on a website)
http://www.camcity.com/webcamresource/Software/
http://developers.webcamworld.com/slist.html

I've had people ask about Linux and USB Cameras. You might want to check theses sites...
http://www.linux-usb.org/
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/
http://linuxusbguide.sourceforge.net/

Required to get UGrabCam to work

• UGrabCam
  http://www.230volts.net/ugrabcam/download/
• ImageMagick
  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.

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