Share screenshots on Ubuntu using Dropbox

screenshare

#!/bin/bash
################
# Description:
# This script will take screenshot of your desktop
# or only active window ( running with -u param ),
# copy it to /Dropbox/Public/share/ with uniq name
# and save path to clipboard
#################
# Requirements: 
# Dropbox
# scrot
# xclip
#################

TSTAMP=`date +%s`
IMAGEPATH=~/Dropbox/Public/share/Screenshot-$TSTAMP.png
scrot $1 $IMAGEPATH
dropbox puburl $IMAGEPATH | xclip

Glad I came across this. A quick note for anyone else who comes along:

It looks like Dropbox ended support for Public folders along with the puburl command in September 2017, but you can use the newer sharelink command to accomplish the same thing.

Here's a tweaked version I am using:

TSTAMP=`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'`
IMAGEPATH=~/Dropbox/Screenshots/Screenshot-$TSTAMP.png
scrot -s $IMAGEPATH
dropbox sharelink $IMAGEPATH | xclip -selection clipboard
echo "Copied link to screenshot at $IMAGEPATH"

@worace, just wanted to thank you for the updated version. Works like a charm!

I've modified mine to work when using it through a keyboard shortcut, as is there were some issues like this:

giblib error: couldn't grab keyboard:Resource temporarily unavailable

It also adds some error handling for when the screenshot/dropbox parts fail, and clears your clipboard like the mac dropbox functionality does (helps avoid pasting whatever was on your clipboard before if for some reason the dropbox bit takes longer than usual).

#!/bin/bash

# Clear clipboard (can't be pasting any passwords if we try to paste too fast).
echo "" | xclip -selection clipboard

mkdir -p $HOME/Dropbox/shots/

TSTAMP=`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'`
IMAGEPATH=$HOME/Dropbox/shots/Screenshot-$TSTAMP.png

# Not waiting a bit will cause errors when using keyboard shortcuts
# to run the script, like the one below: 
#
# giblib error: couldn't grab keyboard:Resource temporarily unavailable
# 
# To avoid this, we just sleep for a bit.


sleep 0.2 && scrot "$IMAGEPATH" -s 2>>~/screenshot-select-errors

if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
	echo "Command failed, unable to create screenshot. See log in ~/screenshot-select-errors"
	notify-send "Screenshot failed" "Unable to create screenshot. See log in ~/screenshot-select-errors"
	exit
fi

DROPBOX_LINK=`dropbox sharelink $IMAGEPATH`

# Dropbox doesn't return a non-zero exit code when it can't get a link.
# Instead, we'll see if the result is a link.
if [[ $DROPBOX_LINK != http* ]] ; then
	echo "Command failed, $DROPBOX_LINK"
	notify-send "Screenshot failed" "$DROPBOX_LINK"
	exit
fi

echo $DROPBOX_LINK | xclip -selection clipboard
echo "Created screenshot, share link: $DROPBOX_LINK"
notify-send "Screenshot Saved" "$DROPBOX_LINK"