January 1, 2005

8:34 AM

Webcam Automatic Image Upload: I want to have my webcam picture automatically uploaded to my server every once in a while and displayed on my website because I'm narcissistic to provide visitors with somewhat interactive content. [More Inside]
posted by christin to (7 comments total)

I'm looking for something free that will do that for me, but lately free stuff has been hard to find through the google junk I get. Any help from you Axewielders?
posted by christin at 8:35 AM on January 1, 2005

Assuming you are using Windows, Webcam XP is excellent. It's not free, but it's cheap and very good.
posted by Mwongozi at 9:04 AM on January 1, 2005

Ah yes, I am using windows XP professional. Sorry for not mentioning that.
posted by christin at 9:07 AM on January 1, 2005

I am a fan of SpyCam. It's nice, simple and cheap.
posted by pookzilla at 9:48 AM on January 1, 2005

Webcam Timershot from the Microsoft XP powertoys is free and simple. You'll have to setup a script to do the upload.
posted by tumble at 10:26 AM on January 1, 2005

Dorgem will automatically take pictures, upload. It's free and open source.
posted by adam at 10:37 AM on January 1, 2005

Cam2Web is free and worked for me a while ago, with a little extra scripting to do what I wanted (old, and slightly odd web site, but works fine). The XP Webcam Timershot I found sucked up a lot system resources, for some reason. I was surprised when I last looked that there wasn't more free stuff. On preview Dorgem looks pretty good.
posted by Turtle at 2:30 PM on January 1, 2005