the Linux Screenshot Uploader (and OS X) from imgur.com/apps

A desktop notification

0. select area of your screen
1. The screenshot is uploaded to imgur

• You can edit the screenshot with any program (GUI or CLI) before uploading
• The link can be copied to clipboard
• Normal image files can be uploaded, too
• You can open the URL or file with any program (browser, image viewer) after upload
• The screenshot can be saved or deleted from disk
• All filenames + URLs (and errors) are logged
• The program can check for updates

The edit feature is very interesting for automization with something like ImageMagick, or to add notes with a GUI editor.

Check if you have all dependencies installed:

imgur-screenshot.sh check

That's it. You can bind the script to a hotkey or add it to your $PATH for quick access ;)

Enjoy!

Take screenshot & upload:

imgur-screenshot.sh

Upload image file:

imgur-screenshot.sh filename

(Most are probably pre-installed)

• curl
• grep

Linux only:

• libnotify-bin
• scrot
• xclip (needed for copy_url)

OS X only:

• terminal-notifier
• screencapture
• pbcopy (needed for copy_url)

You can find this at the beginning of the script.
Optional configurations can be commented with a leading #.

• imgur_key

  The imgur API key. Don't change this unless you have a valid key

• imgur_icon_path

  Optional. The path to the imgur favicon, download here.
  Will be shown as icon for notifications.

• save_file

  If set to false, the file will be deleted after upload.

• file_prefix

  Optional. A prefix that will be prepended to the filename. Filenames are in the format %d.%m.%Y-%H:%M:%S.png.

• file_dir

  Optional. The path to the directory where you want your images saved.

• edit_command

  Optional. An executable that is run before the image is uploaded.
  %img is replaced with the image's filename.

• upload_connect_timeout

  Maximum time in seconds until the connection to imgur should be established.

• upload_timeout

  Maximum time the whole upload procedure may take.

• upload_retries

  Amount of retries that will be done if the upload failed.

• cupy_url

  If set to true, the image URL will be copied to clipboard.

• open_command

  Optional. An executable that is run after the image was uploaded.
  %img is replaced with the image's filename.
  %url is replaced with the image's URL.

• log_file

  The path to the logfile.
  The logfile contains filenames, URLs and errors.

• check_update

  If set to true, it will check for updates after the upload. This will not apply the update, just notify you if there's a new version.

imgur_key="486690f872c678126a2c09a9e196ce1b"
imgur_icon_path="$HOME/Pictures/imgur.png"
save_file="true"
file_prefix="imgur-"
file_dir="$HOME/Pictures"
edit_command="gimp %img"
upload_connect_timeout="5"
upload_timeout="120"
upload_retries="1"
copy_url="true"
open_command="firefox %url"
log_file="$HOME/.imgur-screenshot.log"
check_update="true"

The screenshot will be taken after the selection has been made. This could be annoying if you want to capture something quickly and then want to select an area. I might implement this as a FutureFeature™ when I find a decent way to capture the whole screen, display the shot in full screen and then crop it to a selection.

If you get a notification like

Something went wrong :(
Information logged to /foo/bar/logfile.log

This probably means that scrot -s/screencapture -s was unable to make a selective screenshot.

• You pressed the any key during selection
• (Linux) sleep 0.1 in the script didn't help. Try increasing the value
• You don't have permission to write the file
• One of the dependencies is not installed
• You don't have your display plugged in (wrong terminal?) >_<
• ?? - run scrot -s/screencapture -s directly and check the outcome