Taking pictures from webcam - command line

Install ImageSnap (Using Homebrew)

• Install brew - To install brew → http://brew.sh/
• Then open the terminal and type
  brew install imagesnap

Usage

• Open the terminal
• To take a photo every x seconds:
  imagesnap -t 1
  Replace 1 by the number of seconds you want.
  By default the image will be saved to a snapshot.png file.

To kill the process: ctrl + C

If you have multiple video devices attached to your computer, use the -l ("el") flag to list them:
$ imagesnap -l

To select a specific video device use the -d device flag:
imagesnap -d nameofdevice -t 1

Documentation about imagesnap: https://github.com/rharder/imagesnap