You are now ready to get started! Set up OBS Studio

You will actually use these files quite often, therefore, we recommend placing them somewhere convenient, for example, directly on the C: drive. The files you will need are in the 'OBSCommand' folder.

Go to this second resource page to download the command line tool that we will be using to control OBS Studio (start and stop the recordings) directly via the CMD:Īgain, after downloading it, simply unzip the files anywhere: Now, after doing that, you only need one last thing. Scroll down to find the assets and select the zip file.Īfter downloading the zip file, you should unzip it (anywhere is fine):Īfter unzipping the files, copy the two folders:Īnd paste them into the OBS Studio installation folder: Make sure to select the zip version as shown in below screenshots: First, download this websocket plugin tool from their resources site. To get started, you need to first download and install the OBS Studio application from their website:Īfter downloading and performing the installation, you need to implement two additional tools in order to be able to automate the process of starting and stopping the screen recording. In this article, we will explore how you can smoothly perform screen recording using the free and highly popular Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) application. By recording the execution of the automation, you will be equipped with a video that shows you everything that happened, which will help to troubleshoot situations like that plus offer general documentation on what your Foxtrot projects are doing in your systems. Sometimes, this makes it close to impossible to troubleshoot as many errors are caused by abnormalities that are difficult to recreate. When you have unattended automation running, you will also have automated error handling, meaning that you will not actually see the error and the state of the different applications in the moment of the error.

It is greatly appreciated both from a technical and business perspective to screen record either the whole or parts of a process to be able to (re)watch the executed automation. In many cases, especially if you are running unattended automation, you are using logs and similar tools to document what Foxtrot is doing throughout the process for documentation and to be able to backtrack event if an error did occur.

Obs screen capture