This script writes the title of a SDR# (SDRSharp) Frequency Scanner plugin window to a textfile, to be read by ProScan and fed into Icecast2 metadata. In this case, it is used for streaming Chicago Transit Authority radio traffic. However, it can be adapted to save other window titles given a certain flag to look for. Use this script in the even…

CTA_alphaTags.py

import win32gui, time

def enum_window_titles():
    def callback(handle, data):
        titles.append(win32gui.GetWindowText(handle))

    titles = []
    win32gui.EnumWindows(callback, None)
    return titles

def write_title(title):
    f = open('ctascanner-caption.txt', 'w')
    f.write(title)
    f.close()

ctatitle = ''

while True:

    titles = enum_window_titles()

    newtitle = ''

    for title in titles:
        if title.find('CTA')>0:
            newtitle = title

    if len(newtitle) and newtitle!=ctatitle:
        ctatitle = newtitle
        write_title(ctatitle)
        print time.strftime("[%m/%d %H:%M:%S] ", time.localtime()) + ctatitle
    elif not len(newtitle):
        write_title('')
        
    time.sleep(0.5)