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
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###
#
# Screenshot2Dropbox - Send screenshot to Dropbox via keyboard shortcut OSX and 
#                      copy the public url (shortened) to the clipboard.
# 
# It's pretty easy to add a global keyboard shortcut to this in OSX
#  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.
#
###

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

# The number in public urls is the dropbox user id:
# e.g., http://dl.dropbox.com/u/{NUMBERHERE}/

# You can provide your user id by passing it in as the first argument
# or you can export DROPBOX_USER_ID in your .profile or hardcode it
# here by replacing YOURDROPBOXUSERID
DB_USER_ID=${1-${DROPBOX_USER_ID-YOURDROPBOXUSERID}}

# The path to the dropbox directory
DB_BASE_DIR=~/Dropbox;

# The public directory to store screenshots
DB_PUBLIC_DIR=$DB_BASE_DIR/Public/Screenshots;

# The base URL for public screenshots
DB_BASE_URL=http://dl.dropbox.com/u;

# Capture the screenshot and save it to the public directory
screencapture -i "$DB_PUBLIC_DIR/$FILENAME";

# Check to make sure the file exists after screencapture
if [ -f "$DB_PUBLIC_DIR/$FILENAME" ];
then
    # Use python to urlencode the public url
    URL_FILENAME=$(python -c "import urllib; print urllib.quote('''$FILENAME''')");
    URL_LONG="$DB_BASE_URL/$DB_USER_ID/Screenshots/$URL_FILENAME"
    
    # copy long url for use before the shortener returns
    echo $URL_LONG | pbcopy;

    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
        echo $URL_SHORT | pbcopy;
    fi
fi