create-screenshot-scrot

screenshot-select

#!/bin/bash

# Clear clipboard (can't be pasting any passwords if we try to paste too fast).
echo "" | xclip -selection clipboard

mkdir -p $HOME/Dropbox/shots/

TSTAMP=`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'`
IMAGEPATH=$HOME/Dropbox/shots/Screenshot-$TSTAMP.png

# Not waiting a bit will cause errors when using keyboard shortcuts
# to run the script, like the one below: 
#
# giblib error: couldn't grab keyboard:Resource temporarily unavailable
# 
# To avoid this, we just sleep for a bit.


sleep 0.2 && scrot "$IMAGEPATH" -s 2>>~/screenshot-select-errors

if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
	echo "Command failed, unable to create screenshot. See log in ~/screenshot-select-errors"
	notify-send "Screenshot failed" "Unable to create screenshot. See log in ~/screenshot-select-errors"
	exit
fi

DROPBOX_LINK=`dropbox sharelink $IMAGEPATH`

# Dropbox doesn't return a non-zero exit code when it can't get a link.
# Instead, we'll see if the result is a link.
if [[ $DROPBOX_LINK != http* ]] ; then
	echo "Command failed, $DROPBOX_LINK"
	notify-send "Screenshot failed" "$DROPBOX_LINK"
	exit
fi

echo $DROPBOX_LINK | xclip -selection clipboard
echo "Created screenshot, share link: $DROPBOX_LINK"
notify-send "Screenshot Saved" "$DROPBOX_LINK"

Thank you!