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Grab a screenshot and paste it to the Web using pixbin.us
#!/bin/bash
#
# screen-paste - Paste a screenshot to the Web (using pixbin.us service)
#
# Written by Senko Rasic <senko.rasic@goodcode.io>
# Released into Public Domain. Use it as you like.
#
# The tool allows the user to select a portion of the screen, then copies it
# to pixbin.us, and stores the resulting URL in clipboard.
#
# Requirements: uuidgen, scrot, curl, xclip, mplayer (optional)
set -ex
FDO_SOUNDS_FOLDER="/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/"
ATTN_SOUND="window-attention.oga"
SHUTTER_SOUND="camera-shutter.oga"
function play_sound() {
SOUND="$FDO_SOUNDS_FOLDER/$1"
if [ ! -z "$(which mplayer)" ] && test -f "$SOUND"; then
mplayer -really-quiet "$SOUND" >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
}
fname="/tmp/$(uuidgen).png"
fname_b64="/tmp/$(uuidgen).b64"
test -f "$fname" && rm -f "$fname"
play_sound "$ATTN_SOUND"
scrot -z -s "$fname"
base64 < "$fname" > "$fname_b64"
curl -F "caption=ScreenPaste" -F "image=<$fname_b64" \
http://pixbin.us/api/post/ | \
cut -f4 -d'"' | \
xclip -i -selection "clipboard"
rm -f "$fname" "$fname_b64"
play_sound "$SHUTTER_SOUND"
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