# emersion/grim

Grab images from a Wayland compositor

Repository: https://github.com/emersion/grim
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/emersion-grim
Homepage: https://wayland.emersion.fr/grim
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: wayland, screenshot, cli, scrot
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-03-30T08:20:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3043, "days_push": 1617, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1004, forks 38 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:11.606625+00:00)

## What it is
grim is a small C utility for taking screenshots on Wayland compositors, supporting full-screen, per-output, and region captures. It integrates well with slurp for region selection and sway, and can pipe output to other tools like wl-copy or ImageMagick.

## Use cases
- take screenshots on wayland
- screenshot a specific region on sway
- capture a single monitor output
- screenshot and copy to clipboard on linux
- pick a color from the screen
- scrot alternative for wayland

## When to choose
- you use a Wayland compositor such as sway and need scriptable screenshots
- you want to pipe screenshot output to other tools like wl-copy or ImageMagick
- you need region selection integrated with slurp

## When to avoid
- you are on X11, where scrot or maim are more appropriate
- you need a GUI screenshot tool with annotations or editing

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, cli
- domain: desktop-applications, operating-systems
- platform: cli
- tags: wayland, screenshot, sway, scrot-alternative, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- emersion/grim (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:11.606625+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:13:43.542110+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/emersion/grim (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:11.606625+00:00, sha 2f23ff407cd7)
  - homepage: https://wayland.emersion.fr/grim (fetched 2026-08-29T13:13:18.716048+00:00, sha 86b1a8e676ea)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.