Takes your current clipboard/pasteboard and pastes it to a text file in a public Dropbox directory. Shortens the url and puts it in your clipboard for quick pasting into a IM/Email.

clipboard-to-dropbox

#!/bin/bash

DATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d");
TIME=$(date +"%I.%M.%S");
AMPM=$(date +"%p");
FILENAME=Paste\ $DATE\ at\ $TIME\ $AMPM.txt;

# You can export you DROPBOX_USER_ID in your .bash_profile
# or hardcode it here by replacing YOURDROPBOXUSERID
DB_USER_ID=${DROPBOX_USER_ID-YOURDROPBOXUSERID};
# Make sure you create the Screenshots directory in
# your public directory
DB_BASE_DIR=~/Dropbox/Public/Pastes;
DB_BASE_URL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u;

pbpaste -Prefer txt > "$DB_BASE_DIR/$FILENAME";

# file may not have been created for one reason or another
if [ -f "$DB_BASE_DIR/$FILENAME" ];
then
    URL_FILENAME=$(python -c "import urllib; print urllib.quote('''$FILENAME''')");
    URL_LONG="$DB_BASE_URL/$DB_USER_ID/Pastes/$URL_FILENAME";
    # copy long url, if you paste before the shortener returns
    echo $URL_LONG | pbcopy;
 
    # shorten url via google
    URL_SHORT=$(curl https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "{\"longUrl\": \"$URL_LONG\"}" 2>/dev/null | grep goo.gl | cut -f 4 -d '"');
 
    if [ -n "$URL_SHORT" ]; then
        # we have a short url, copy it
        echo $URL_SHORT | pbcopy;
    fi
fi