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+# spectur
+
+Open an automated selenium webdriver, and download images from Live View mode.
+
+## Requirements
+
+You must have the [mozilla geckodriver](https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases)  in your path. The simplest way to do this is store it in the same folder as the `spectur_live_view.py` script.
+
+## Usage
+
+```
+python spectur_live_view.py
+```
+
+By default, you will be asked to login manually. If you would like to login automatically, set appropriate values to the `username` and `password` variables in the script header.