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CrabGrab: new OSS Rust crate for cross-platform screen/window capture

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a library and tool we're working on to get feedback/thoughts from the opensource community. If you've ever wanted to build your own open source Loom alternative or integrated screen sharing/recording into your app, we just released a cross-platform (Mac and Windows for now, Linux to come) Rust library that let's you do just that, called CrabGrab: https://github.com/AugmendTech/CrabGrab (crate here: https://crates.io/crates/crabgrab).

It's the core screen capturing engine powering our "smarter" Loom alternative at augmend.com, and something we believe deeply in sharing with anyone who wants to build their own or use it to do something fun like screen-sharing with Clippy: https://github.com/AugmendTech/Snippy.

Would love to hear what you think. Thanks!

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