Any Applescript to Take Screenshot and save to Clipboard?

You can use the screencapture utility, for example:

do shell script"screencapture -c"

... and there is also the Take ScreenShot Automator action 😉.

Am I missing something here, there are keystroke commands for taking a screeshot to the clipboard: Control-Shift Command-3 or Control-Shift-Command-4. Why not just incorporate the keystrokes into the script?

Yes, just paste my posted statement into a Run AppleScript action - the action does need the run handler, so if you were pasting in only the statement that would be why it isn't working. The action contents would be something like:

onrun {input, parameters}

do shell script"screencapture -c"

returninput-- pass on original input

endrun

You can also use just the command part (the string enclosed in quotes) in a Run Shell Script action.

Hello.

In the script below, the very last line, can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong that the date is not appended to the line. I swear it must be a very basic problem. El Capitan. Thank you.

set nid to (get name of first window whose visible is true)

set wid to (get id of first window whose visible is true)

do shell script "screencapture -T1 -l" & wid & " ~/Desktop/PrefsPics/" & nid & "$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S).png"

Please ignore the above; I reposted as a new thread.