Automatically upload screenshots in XFCE4
by Robert Basic on February 13th, 2012
XFCE4 has a nice little tool for making screenshots - xfce4-screenshooter. My only gripe with it is that it can't automatically upload the images to a server and give me the URL to the image (to be honest, it can, but it uploads the images to a shady looking website, and I don't like that). And then one day I saw Evan Coury's GtkGrab - a set of scripts which does exactly what I want! But, sadly, that's for Gnome. So, based on Evan's work, I put together this little script:
Happy hackin'!
#!/bin/bash
# based on GtkGrab by @EvanDotPro https://github.com/EvanDotPro/GtkGrab
function rename_file()
{
NEWFILE=$(echo $1 | md5sum | cut -c-5)'.png'
}
REMOTE=user@domain.tld:/home/user/screens/
DOMAIN=http://i.domain.tld/
LOCALPATH=/home/user/Pictures/screenshots/
xfce4-screenshooter -r --save=$LOCALPATH
LOCALFILE=$(ls -tr $LOCALPATH | tail -n 1)
rename_file $LOCALFILE
I=0
LIMIT=10
while [ "$I" -lt "$LIMIT" -a -f "$LOCALPATH$NEWFILE" ]
do
rename_file $NEWFILE
I=`expr $I + 1`
done
mv "$LOCALPATH$LOCALFILE" "$LOCALPATH$NEWFILE"
scp "$LOCALPATH$NEWFILE" "$REMOTE$NEWFILE"
echo "$DOMAIN$NEWFILE" | xclip -selection clipboard
notify-send "Screenshot uploaded, URL in clipboard"
Save this script somewhere on your computer, configure the DOMAIN, LOCALPATH and REMOTE variables, set the script to be executable and then create a shortcut combination for it via Settings -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts. Programs you'll need to have installed for this to work are xfce4-screenshooter, xclip and notify-send. If you don't want to be prompted for the password/passphrase for the scp command each time, set up a passwordless login for your user on your remote server.Happy hackin'!
Tags: bash, script, xfce4, xfce4-screenshooter.
Categories: Development, Programming, Software.
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Categories: Development, Programming, Software.
Comments: None.