scan-for-webcams
scan for webcams on the internet (by JettChenT)
webcam-access-monitor
D-Bus service and Gnome Shell extension to monitor webcam access. (by phw)
| scan-for-webcams | webcam-access-monitor | |
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| 5 | 1 | |
| 229 | 8 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.9 | 10.0 | |
| 6 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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scan-for-webcams
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- Scan For Webcams on the internet easily, with automatic checking of accessibility, text descriptions of the footage, timezone of the camera and more.
- JettChenT/scan-for-webcams - scan for webcams on the internet
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Scan for webcams: Automatically scan for webcams around the world and outputs text descriptions of the camera footage. Now available via a simple pip install.
Now you can install that via pip and run this program anywhere using the sfw command. More information on readme.md
- Scan-for-webcams: a simple program that automatically scans for webcams around the world with a description of the camera footage. Now available via a simple pip install.
- Scan-for-webcams: a simple program that automatically scans for webcams around the world. Now available via a simple pip install.
webcam-access-monitor
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To the Linux users: is it possible to query whether the microphone is disconnected physically?
You could dmesg | grep -i "Camera" but I don't think that would work well for a status bar monitor. I did find this defunct gnome extension that monitors webcam activity. There's also a webcam manager gnome extension but that seems to be a software based solution for disabling the webcam.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing scan-for-webcams and webcam-access-monitor you can also consider the following projects:
blinkist-scraper - 📚 Python tool to download book summaries and audio from Blinkist.com, and generate some pretty output
advanced-alttab-window-switcher - A highly customizable replacement for Gnome Shell's Alt-Tab window and app switchers.
webcam-virtual-background - Enjoying web conference with virtual backgrounds on linux
qbr - A webcam-based 3x3x3 rubik's cube solver written in Python 3 and OpenCV.
vertical-workspaces - V-Shell is a GNOME Shell extension that allows you to customize the layout and behavior of the Shell UI.
Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
pycamloop - Make OpenCV camera loops less of a chore by skipping the boilerplate and getting right to the interesting stuff