BarnacleBob / screenshot

screenshot uploading script

The goal of this program is to store screenshots on s3 (and others) as simple as possible.

Features

• supported on linux and Mac OSX
• capture screenshots
• send screenshot images to various backends
• supports uploading images to s3, couchdb, tumblr and imgur
• automatically copies selected url to clipboard
• integrate with a variety of url shortening services, ie tinyurl
• build a static HTML image calendar for archival purposes (s3 only)

Requirements

For uploading images

• S3 requires boto
• couchdb has no requirements
• tumblr requires pytumblr
• imgur requires pyimgur

For clipboard support

• xclip command line
• image magick for the import command

Install on ubuntu lucid

sudo apt-get install python-boto xclip imagemagick

Configuration

sample ~/.screenshot/screenshot.ini config file

[screenshot]
use_clipboard = yes
egress_url = http://screenshot.example.net//%%(key)s
clipboard_method = template

[s3]
enabled = yes
key = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
secret = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
bucket = XXXXXXXXXX

Development

For development see DEV.md