Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, none of the proposed scripts helped.
So I took out my trusty soldering iron and hard wired the button. Works perfect and I can get even faster than 1fps! (not shooting at full quality and resolution).
Of course I have 1 screw left over
Is it possible to make the camera work like normal, but have a script running to write a log file? That way I have a txt file that has all the date/time stamps of every picture.