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geekhack Community => Ergonomics => Topic started by: JackMills on Thu, 19 February 2015, 11:00:47
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I am looking for a good offline keylogger that will register any key I use (also arrows, PgUp ...).
With my Infinity on the way I would like to gather data on my typing habits and on the diversity of text that I type. Based on that information I would like to figure out a layout to implement on the Infinity.
I am already familiar with the necessary layout analysis tools, but these are based on documents that I typed and not so much on daily input (lync conversations, web searches). I think I could be a bit more diverse by logging just any key I use.
Also would it be interesting to see what other keys i use often, such as backspace, left shift,...
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I use WhatPulse (http://www.whatpulse.org), but if you are looking for a FOSS alternative, I googled up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pykeylogger/
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FOSS is what I am looking for indeed (didn't know the term until now) and also one that is not prone to do some illegal stuff. But it looks like I can examine the script for that one, so I will give that a go.
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OS? If GNU/Linux, the most common two are logkeys and LKL.
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I've been using whatpulse for 11 months, so far so good
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OS? If GNU/Linux, the most common two are logkeys and LKL.
OS would be Windows.
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I was totally about to lock this thread and ban all of you for trying to distribute warez :))
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I was totally about to lock this thread and ban all of you for trying to distribute warez :))
And I thought I was just asking for some innocent tool.
Anyhow I will be looking for something to compile myself, because downloading a keylogger triggered antivirus and I just received an email from IT, asking me what I was doing.
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I use WhatPulse (http://www.whatpulse.org), but if you are looking for a FOSS alternative, I googled up this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pykeylogger/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pykeylogger/)
That's not an alternative. PyKeylogger is an open-source keylogger that works locally, while WhatPulse is a proprietary service (have you actually read the ToS? last time I checked, the client software was a subject to change at any time without any announcements required) that sends that sends user data to a third party—using that is outright stupid (even if it's not a keylogger, ever heard of side-channel attacks?).
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Google "keyboard heatmap"
There's a few decent freewares of the sort around. I think some even log make/break scancodes, so they should indicate every possible keystroke. Not sure if any of these supports special/nonstandard keyboard features, programmable macros and media/LED controllers and Windows lockout keys and the like.
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Google "keyboard heatmap"
There's a few decent freewares of the sort around. I think some even log make/break scancodes, so they should indicate every possible keystroke. Not sure if any of these supports special/nonstandard keyboard features, programmable macros and media/LED controllers and Windows lockout keys and the like.
I am looking into making my own keylogger, as it can be good exercise for my non-existent coding skills, and I just found some interesting explanation on creating your own heatmaps with Python. So thanks for the google suggestion (although I found it using DuckDuckGo :D)