search your screen history - Screenpipe

screenpipe records your screen 24/7 and lets you search through everything. find that code snippet, conversation, or document you saw last week.

how it works

continuous capture — screenpipe records your screen at configurable intervals (default: 1 frame/second)
OCR extraction — text is extracted from every frame using native OCR engines
local storage — everything stored in a local SQLite database
search API — query via localhost:3030/search with filters

bash

curl "http://localhost:3030/search?q=project+apollo+budget&content_type=vision&limit=20"

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curl "http://localhost:3030/search?app_name=Code&content_type=vision&limit=20"

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curl "http://localhost:3030/search?q=standup&start_time=2026-02-10T14:00:00Z&end_time=2026-02-10T18:00:00Z"

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curl "http://localhost:3030/search?browser_url=github.com&limit=10"

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curl "http://localhost:3030/search?q=deployment&app_name=Slack&content_type=vision&limit=10"

param	type	description
`q`	string	search query
`limit`	int	max results (default 20)
`offset`	int	pagination offset
`content_type`	string	`vision`, `audio`, `accessibility`, `input`, `all`
`start_time`	ISO 8601	filter by start time
`end_time`	ISO 8601	filter by end time
`app_name`	string	filter by app name
`window_name`	string	filter by window title
`browser_url`	string	filter by browser URL
`min_length`	int	minimum text length
`max_length`	int	maximum text length
`max_content_length`	int	truncate each result's text to this many chars (middle-truncation)

the easiest way to search is the built-in search in the screenpipe desktop app:

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