# emersion/slurp

Select a region in a Wayland compositor

Repository: https://github.com/emersion/slurp
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/slurp
Homepage: https://wayland.emersion.fr/slurp
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: wayland, screenshot, cli
Last push: 2026-05-10T11:04:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 59/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 81, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3027, "days_push": 115, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1277, forks 74 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:13.171725+00:00)

## What it is
slurp is a small C utility that lets users interactively select a region, point, or output on screen in a Wayland compositor and prints the selection geometry to stdout. It pairs naturally with grim for taking screenshots on Wayland.

## Use cases
- select a screen region to screenshot on wayland
- pick a point on screen from a script
- select a monitor/output interactively
- select a window geometry under sway
- get screen coordinates for automation scripts

## When to choose
- you need interactive region selection on Wayland
- you script screenshots with grim
- you use Sway or another wlroots-based compositor

## When to avoid
- you are on X11 (use slop instead)
- you need a GUI screenshot tool with editing features

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, graphics
- domain: desktop-applications, operating-systems
- platform: cli
- tags: wayland, screenshot, region-selection, grim-companion, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- emersion/slurp (main) score 59

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.171725+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 2026-08-30T05:02:49.656393+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/emersion/slurp (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.171725+00:00, sha 10b49ddc2adf)
  - homepage: https://wayland.emersion.fr/slurp (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:34.603884+00:00, sha 5a38e0799aa4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.