Folder Action Handler to upload an added file and copy URL

add-new-item-sync.scpt

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droplet - upload and copy url

This Folder Action handler is triggered whenever items are added to the attached folder.
The script uploads the file to the specified destination, and puts the URL in the clipboard.

Adapted from Ken Mickels' gist:

https://gist.github.com/kenmickles/bf8ffbf7117f4b394ff01c8edac11ebd

*)

use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

property scpTarget : "you@example.com:~/public_html/s"
property publicPath : "https://example.com/s/"

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving theFiles
	try
		repeat with thisFile in theFiles
			tell application "Finder" to set fileName to name of thisFile
			
			display notification fileName with title "Syncing File..."
			
			set itemPath to the quoted form of the POSIX path of thisFile
			do shell script ("scp " & itemPath & " " & scpTarget)
			
			set publicURL to urlEncode(publicPath & fileName)
			set the clipboard to {text:(publicURL), Unicode text:publicURL}
			
			display notification fileName with title "Uploaded and copied URL"
		end repeat
	end try
end adding folder items to


on urlEncode(input)
	tell current application's NSString to set rawUrl to stringWithString_(input)
	set theEncodedURL to rawUrl's stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:4 -- 4 is NSUTF8StringEncoding
	return theEncodedURL as Unicode text
end urlEncode