Hi, I will conduct a study on students' digital documentation behavior by recording their keystrokes in the keyboard (basically using laptops ), with time-stamped action logs.
I found one free keylogging tool for windows users ,but its mac version is not available .
many scripts for macOS users are found in GitHub, but the solutions there are not user-friendly and appear to require commands skills.
please recommend any tools monitoring keystrokes or keypress event logger for Windows and macOS systems. open source software is preferred.
It’s possible to build up a python-based Keylogger with time stamps in a low-level keypress event.
(1) download & install python in Windows and macOS
(2) preparation
Windows: turn Microsoft Defender Antivirus real-time protection off temporarily
macOS: Open the Privacy pane in System Preferences and add Terminal into input monitoring
(3) download sourcecode from:
https://github.com/tamaramueller/keylogger
save it and rename as keylogger
move folder keylogger into C:\Users\yourPCname\ in windows
into /users/yourPCname/ in macOS
(4) open Windows CMD and Mac OS Terminal and enter:
pip install pynput
py -m pip install keylogger
(win users enter) python C:\Users\yourPCname\keylogger\keylogger.py
(mac users enter) python3 /users/yourPCname/keylogger/keylogger.py
(5) find the logfile.txt
the logfile will be recorded with Unix timestamp.
edit Unix timestamp in MS Excel and remember to disable scientific notation
use the following formula to Unix timestamp to Excel time and convert C1 to m/d/yyyy h:mm:ss.000 (Custom format)
A1 = 13 digit Unix timestamp (milliseconds , 10 digit for seconds)
B1 cell: =LEFT(A1,10) & "." & RIGHT(A1,3)
C1 cell: =(((B1/60)/60)/24)+DATE(1970,1,1)
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