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Panda Screenshot

Panda Screenshot is a local screenshot capture and annotation app. It ships as a single self-contained binary — the server, web app, and Chrome extension are all bundled in.

Install

macOS / Linux

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ralphite/panda/main/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ralphite/panda/main/install.ps1 | iex

The installer asks where to keep data (default ~/panda, or %LocalAppData%\Panda on Windows), puts a panda command on your PATH, writes the Chrome extension into /extension, optionally enables auto-start (launch at login + restart on crash), then runs Panda in the background and opens http://localhost:8088/screenshot. It finishes by printing the steps to load the Chrome extension.

Run panda any time to start it again.

Chrome Extension

Open chrome://extensions.

Enable Developer Mode.

Load unpacked from the extension folder in your data directory (the installer prints the path), or from extension/ in this repo when developing.

Keep Panda running on http://localhost:8088.

Click the extension icon on any normal page. It captures the visible viewport, opens a crop tab before the source tab, uploads the crop, then replaces that tab with the web editor.

Press Ctrl+Shift+P to trigger the same visible viewport capture from the keyboard.

Right click the extension icon and choose Full-page Screenshot when you need the old full-page capture flow.

Temporary captures live in Chrome extension IndexedDB. They are removed after upload, when the crop tab is closed, and after 30 minutes.

Keyboard

V select

R rectangle

O oval

L line

A arrow

P pencil

T text

Enter insert a newline while typing text

Esc finish typing text

Delete remove selection

C copy annotated image

Develop

npm --prefix web install<br>npm --prefix web run build<br>go run ./cmd/panda

Open http://localhost:8088/screenshot. The frontend must be built before the Go binary, since it is embedded at compile time.

Other targets: make build (single binary), make test (web + Go tests), make release (cross-compile every platform into dist/).

Flags: -data overrides the data folder; -web serves the frontend from disk instead of the embedded build, for live frontend work.

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