Sending screenshot from client to Server through socket in java

How to send screen shot from client to server automatically in java

Did you ever think of getting screen shot from all computers in a network to a server. This code will helps you to do so....This code will capture the current desktop screen shot and sent it to server computer. This application is very useful to network administrator to track what other are doing in the computer at your organization.

ClientApp.java : is a client program that takes screen shot in regular interval.  The sendScreen function will help you to know how java program takes screen shot at intervals and sends to server machine. Here i used ImageIO class to create image buffer. There are other options too... The file is sent through a socket. the port number i used here is 1729. Server Name here used is loop back ip, where you need to specify the server computer name or ip  address.

On the Other hand

SeverApp.java will always listen to the port 1729. if any request comes there, it will catch request and save to the folder 

ClientApp.java

import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Random;


import javax.imageio.ImageIO;


/**
 * @author lou reed
 *
 */
public class ClientApp implements Runnable {

    private static long nextTime = 0;
    private static ClientApp clientApp = null;
    private String serverName = "127.0.0.1"; //loop back ip
    private int portNo = 1729;
    //private Socket serverSocket = null;
   
    /**
     * @param args
     * @throws InterruptedException
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        clientApp = new ClientApp();
        clientApp.getNextFreq();
        Thread thread = new Thread(clientApp);
        thread.start();
    }

    private void getNextFreq() {
        long currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        Random random = new Random();
        long value = random.nextInt(180000); //1800000
        nextTime = currentTime + value;
        //return currentTime+value;
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        while(true){
            if(nextTime < System.currentTimeMillis()){
                System.out.println(" get screen shot ");
                try {
                    clientApp.sendScreen();
                    clientApp.getNextFreq();
                } catch (AWTException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch(Exception e){
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
               
            }
            //System.out.println(" statrted ....");
        }
       
    }

    private void sendScreen()throws AWTException, IOException {
           Socket serverSocket = new Socket(serverName, portNo);
             Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
             Dimension dimensions = toolkit.getScreenSize();
                 Robot robot = new Robot();  // Robot class
                 BufferedImage screenshot = robot.createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(dimensions));
                 ImageIO.write(screenshot,"png",serverSocket.getOutputStream());
                 serverSocket.close();
    }
}

Server application

ServerApp.java

import java.net.*;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.*;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

public class ServerApp extends Thread
{
       private ServerSocket serverSocket=null;
       private static Socket server = null;
       private Date date = null;
       private static final String DIR_NAME = "SACHIN";
      
       public ServerApp() throws IOException, SQLException, ClassNotFoundException, Exception{
           serverSocket = new ServerSocket(1729);
           serverSocket.setSoTimeout(180000);
       }

    public void run()
       {
           while(true)
          {
               try
               {
                  server = serverSocket.accept();
                  date = new Date();
                      DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("_yyMMdd_HHmmss");
                  String fileName = server.getInetAddress().getHostName().replace(".", "-");
                  System.out.println(fileName);
                  BufferedImage img=ImageIO.read(ImageIO.createImageInputStream(server.getInputStream()));
                  ImageIO.write(img, "png", new File("D:\\CFEDITSNAPS\\"+fileName+dateFormat.format(date)+".png"));
                  System.out.println("Image received!!!!");
                  //lblimg.setIcon(img);
              }
             catch(SocketTimeoutException st)
             {
                   System.out.println("Socket timed out!");
 //createLogFile("[stocktimeoutexception]"+stExp.getMessage());
                  break;
             }
             catch(IOException e)
             {
                  e.printStackTrace();
                  break;
             }
             catch(Exception ex)
            {
                  System.out.println(ex);
            }
          }
       }
     
       public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException, SQLException, ClassNotFoundException, Exception{
              ServerApp serverApp = new ServerApp();
              serverApp.createDirectory(DIR_NAME);
              Thread thread = new Thread(serverApp);
                thread.start();
       }

    private void createDirectory(String dirName) {
        File newDir = new File("D:\\"+dirName);
        if(!newDir.exists()){
            boolean isCreated = newDir.mkdir();
        }
     }
    }

Creating Log file in Server application

       private void createLogFile(String message) {
           String errMsg = new Date() +" --> " + message;
        try {
            File logFile = new File("D:\\"+DIR_NAME+"\\log"+System.currentTimeMillis()+".txt");
            logFile.createNewFile();
            FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(logFile.getAbsoluteFile());
            BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
            bufferedWriter.write(errMsg);
            bufferedWriter.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
       
    }

You can add this code to try catch

createLogFile("[stocktimeoutexception]"+stExp.getMessage());

Read more: http://javabelazy.blogspot.com/2013/10/import-java.html#ixzz2hngXgF00

Thanks for reading this topic.

author : +belazy

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