{"id":91,"date":"2013-02-12T23:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T04:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2013-05-31T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T20:14:03","slug":"script-to-easily-post-screenshot-to-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Script to easily post screenshot to web"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of my work with Wayne and Layne<\/a>, Adam and I do a lot of work together remotely, since I live in Pennsylvania and he lives in Minnesota. It’s really nice to be able to quickly share a work in progress, whether it be a diagram in Inkscape<\/a> or a printed circuit board layout in Kicad<\/a>. Setting up a Skype or other screen sharing system incurs too much transaction cost and isn’t very quick, so I was looking for something quicker and simpler.<\/p>\n

I wrote this little script to take a screenshot of my entire display, add a timestamp to the bottom, and automatically upload it to my website. I set up an SSH key between my computer and my webserver (that is unlocked when I login), and added the following script to my path as screenshot_poster.sh<\/strong><\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash
\n#
\n# This script will capture the whole screen
\n# and upload it to the web in a known location
\n# Written by Matthew Beckler for Wayne and Layne, LLC
\n# Last updated August 31, 2012<\/p>\n

cd \/tmp
\nimport -window root temp.png
\nWIDTH=`identify -format %w temp.png`
\nDATE=`date`
\nconvert -background '#0008' -fill white -gravity west -size ${WIDTH}x30 caption:\"$DATE\" temp.png +swap -gravity south -composite screenshot.png
\nscp screenshot.png user@example.com:\/var\/www\/rest\/of\/the\/path\/to\/screenshot.png<\/p>\n

DEST=\"http:\/\/example.com\/path\/to\/screenshot.png\"
\n# do you want a notification or to just open the browser?
\n#notify-send -t 1000 \"Screenshot posted\" \"$DEST\"
\nxdg-open \"$DEST\"
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

The final two lines allow you to make a little desktop notification of the URL, open a web browser to the image’s location, or both. Someday I will set up a nice keyboard shortcut to run this script, to make the process of sharing my work-in-progress as quick and easy as possible.<\/p>\n

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