Screenshot taker/uploader

screenshot.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Takes a screenshot, uploads via scp, puts url on the clipboard
# Edit the code to set the scp destination and url format
#
# Bind it to a gnome keyboard shortcut for speedy screen sharing
#
# Ridiculously this needs bash, gnome-screenshot, xclip, scp, notify-send, sha256sum AND Ruby

set -e

TMPFILE="/dev/shm/screenshot-${USER}-`date +"%s"`.png"

# Weirly need to sleep here due to some timing problem when
# executing this as a keyboard shortcut in gnome
sleep 0.1

gnome-screenshot --file=$TMPFILE --area 2>>${HOME}/screenshot.log

if [ ! -e $TMPFILE ] ; then
  exit 0
fi

echo $TMPFILE

CSUM=`sha256sum $TMPFILE | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.to_i(16).to_s(36)'`
echo $CSUM

FILENAME=`date +%Y%m%d`-${CSUM}.png
URL=http://johnleach.co.uk/scrot/${FILENAME}

echo -e "`date`:\t$TMPFILE\t$URL" >> ${HOME}/screenshot.log

echo -n $URL | xclip -selection c

echo "Copying up to server"

scp $TMPFILE [email protected]:johnleach.co.uk/scrot/${FILENAME} && 
/usr/bin/notify-send -t 2000 -u low "Screenshot uploaded successfully" &&
rm $TMPFILE