simple-recorder

A simple OBS recorder app. 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 Releases 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

CLI

To launch the CLI pass any subcommand, for example:

simple-recorder start "File Name"

simple-recorder stop

Commands:

Usage: simple-recorder [OPTIONS] COMMAND

┏━ Subcommands ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ start      Start recording                                                        ┃
┃ stop       Stop recording                                                         ┃
┃ pause      Pause recording                                                        ┃
┃ resume     Resume recording                                                       ┃
┃ directory  Get or set the recording directory                                     ┃
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┏━ Options ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ --host <HOST>          OBS WebSocket host                                         ┃
┃ --port <PORT>          OBS WebSocket port                                         ┃
┃ --password <PASSWORD>  OBS WebSocket password                                     ┃
┃ --theme <THEME>        GUI theme (Light Purple, Neutral Blue, Reds, Sandy Beach,  ┃
┃                        Kayak, Light Blue 2)                                       ┃
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GUI

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

simple-recorder

Just enter the filename and click Start.

Themes

You can change the colour theme with the --theme option:

simple-recorder --theme="Light Purple"