MacOS – Command to list available webcam/video devices

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Is there a way to list all webcams that are available to my Mac (e.g. FaceTime camera) using Terminal?

I know there's

diskutil list

to list all disks attached to my Mac, but is there a command that does the same thing for input cameras?

Things I've already tried:

system_profiler SPCameraDataType

This doesn't list the identifier with associated number, which is the information that I need from the list.

ls -ltrh /dev/video*

I tried this too, but I'm pretty sure this only works for Linux/Ubuntu, which I know nothing about.

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

Try ioreg command:

ioreg | grep -i cam
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