Capture global keyboard events on Linux

• Only Linux based
• Need root privilages

go get github.com/MarinX/keylogger

There is a helper on finding the keyboard.

 keyboard := keylogger.FindKeyboardDevice()

Which goes through each file device name to find keyword "keyboard"

/sys/class/input/event[0-255]/device/name

and returns the file event path if found

/dev/input/event2

If the function returns empty string, you will need to cat each device name and get the event number. If you know already, you can easily pass it to constructor

keylogger.New("/dev/input/event2")

Once the keylogger returns channel event, you can switch by event code as described in input_event.go For start, you can listen on keyboard state change

keylogger.EvKey

Once you get desire event, there is a helper to parse code into human readable key.

event.KeyString()

NOTE

If you listen on keyboard state change, it will return double results. This is because pressing and releasing the key are 2 different state change. There is a helper function which you can call to see which type of state change happend

// returns true if key on keyboard is pressed
event.KeyPress()

// returns true if key on keyboard is released
event.KeyRelease()

You can find a example script in example/main.go

No magic, just run

go test -v

• sniffing global keyboard events in go

This library is under the MIT License