OSX Bash script to snap an interactive screenshot into your Dropbox public folder and copy the public url to your clipboard.

screenshot-to-dropbox

#!/bin/bash

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

# You can export you DROPBOX_USER_ID in your .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/Screenshots;
DB_BASE_URL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u;

screencapture -i "$DB_BASE_DIR/$FILENAME";

# user may have escaped out of the screencapture
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/Screenshots/$URL_FILENAME";
    # copy long url, if you paste before the shortener returns
    echo $URL_LONG | pbcopy;
fi

Pretty easy to add a global keyboard shortcut.

1. Open Automator
2. Select Service
3. Add shell script
4. Put in the path to this script
5. Save as something useful "Screen Shot to Dropbox"
6. System Preferences -> Keyboard
7. Keyboard Shortcuts
8. Services
9. Find "Screen shot to Dropbox"
10. Click to the right of the name
11. Add a shortcut. I used Shift+Command+5.