saylestyler / cloutinary

watch a directory, say, Screenshots, and whenever something is added, upload it to cloudinary; or just a single file or a single dir, with 3 trillion options and flags

Cloutinary

Install

npm install --g cloutinary 

or

npx cloutinary

usage

upload a single file

cloutinary img.png

upload all images in a dir

cloutinary my-dir

(There are the flags --file and --dir but autodetection of those built in.)

watch mode

This is what I wrote this code for initially. I wanted anything that was screenshotted (shooted?) to be uploaded to my media library. In general nowadays when I'm writing posts and need images on my blog I'll start it up. You can specify a watch --dir as well and bind a custom key so only certain screenshots are uploaded.

cloutinary --watch

background watcher

create a tmux session that is running cloutinary --watch if you love to close entire triple tabbed terminal session(s) on the daily and are too lazy to figure out how to restore them heh:

(tmux &&) cd ~/repo && cloutinary && ctrl-b d

upload processing flags

For any of the above 3 commands, you can add --copy to save the url to your clipboard and/or --delete. The default behavior once a file(s) has been uploaded to rename the image in place. This is used in part if your paranoid, but also to avoid re-uploding a buncha files you already did. For example:

cloutinary --watch --dir /my-dear --copy --delete

This would watch the directory /my-dir, upload anything that is moved / appears there, copy the url to clipboard and delete the files once upload is successful.

watch configuration

Cloutinary uses chokidar to watch files. There are some configuration values you may change if you so please. They are:

TODO