simple-recorder

A single purpose application for naming file recording in OBS.

Run it as a CLI or a GUI.

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Requirements

• Python 3.11 or greater
• OBS Studio 28+

Installation

with uv

uv tool install simple-recorder

with pipx

pipx install simple-recorder

with pyz

An executable pyz has been included in Release which you can run in Windows. Follow the steps in this Setting up Windows for Zipapps guide.

Configuration

Pass --host, --port and --password as flags on the root command:

simple-recorder --host=localhost --port=4455 --password=<websocket password> --help

Or load them from your environment:

OBS_HOST=localhost
OBS_PORT=4455
OBS_PASSWORD=<websocket password>
OBS_THEME=Reds

Use

GUI

To launch the GUI run the root command without any subcommands:

simple-recorder

Just enter the filename and click Start Recording.

Themes

Passing flags is fine, however, for example to set the theme:

simple-recorder --theme="Light Purple"

Available themes: Light Purple, Neutral Blue, Reds, Sandy Beach, Kayak, Light Blue 2, Dark Teal1

CLI

Usage: simple-recorder [OPTIONS] COMMAND

┏━ Subcommands ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ start  Start recording                                              ┃
┃ stop   Stop recording                                               ┃
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┏━ Options ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ --host <HOST>          OBS WebSocket host                           ┃
┃ --port <PORT>          OBS WebSocket port                           ┃
┃ --password <PASSWORD>  OBS WebSocket password                       ┃
┃ --theme <THEME>        OBS WebSocket theme                          ┃
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For example:

simple-recorder start "File Name"

simple-recorder stop

• If no filename is passed to start then you will be prompted for one.
  • A default_name will be used if none is supplied to the prompt.