Do you often take screenshots which you want to share with others on forums, IRC, MSN or such? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just run a script and the file would be uploaded and ready for copy/paste? Well a nice guy over at the ArchLinux.org forum called “solarwind” wrote a script in python which uploads a image from command line, and outputs the link and such when its done. Ive used it a couple of times and I have to say: Its awesome.
Heres the code, place this in a file called imgupload.py (or something similar):
#!/usr/bin/python import sys, os #Define globals. tmp = "temp.data" #Temporary file filename. img = "" #Image filename. ext = "" #File extension. #Define functions. def uploadsingle(): print("Uploading: " + img) os.system("curl -H Expect: -F fileupload=\"@" + img + "\" -F xml=yes -# \"http://www.imageshack.us/index.php\" > " + tmp) file = open(tmp, "r") content = file.read() #Get the image link. start = content.find("<image_link>") end = content.find("</image_link>") link = content[start + 12 : end] #Get the thumbnail link. start = content.find("<thumb_link>") end = content.find("</thumb_link>") forum_link = content[start + 12 : end] print("Image link:\t\t" + link) print("Link for forums:\t[url= + link + ][img]" + forum_link + "[/img][/url]") def uploadall(extension): print("Uploading: *." + extension) outfile = open("links.txt", "a") list = os.listdir("./") for fname in list: if fname.endswith(ext): print("Uploading: " + fname) os.system("curl -H Expect: -F fileupload=\"@" + fname + "\" -F xml=yes -# \"http://www.imageshack.us/index.php\" > " + tmp) file = open(tmp, "r") content = file.read() #Get the image link. start = content.find("<image_link>") end = content.find("</image_link>") link = content[start + 12 : end] #Get the thumbnail link. start = content.find("<thumb_link>") end = content.find("</thumb_link>") forum_link = content[start + 12 : end] #Append link data to the outfile. outfile.write("File: " + fname + "\n") outfile.write("Image link:\t\t" + link + "\n") outfile.write("Link for forums:\t[url= + link + ][img]" + forum_link + "[/img][/url]\n\n") os.system("rm " + tmp) #Remove temporary file. #Process command line arguments and execute program. if sys.argv[1] == "all": ext = sys.argv[2] uploadall(ext) else: img = sys.argv[1] uploadsingle() os.system("rm " + tmp) #Remove temporary file.
Then if you want to run the file, just go to the folder where you stored the file and open up a command line and type the following which should give the result (example run):
$ python imgupload.py compiz-fusion.png Uploading: compiz-fusion.png Image link: http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7740/compizfusiond.png Link for forums: [URL=http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7740/compizfusiond.png] [IMG]http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7740/compizfusiond.th.png[/IMG][/URL]
TIPS:
If you’re a GNU/Linux user you can move this script into the bin folder for easy access:
$ mv imgupload.py imgup $ chmod +x imgup $ mv imgup /usr/bin/ # Then you can simply type: $ imgup yourimage
Also solarwind came with nice tip,
solarwind says:
Nice. Note that you can also upload all of a certain type of images in a folder. Let’s say you have a bunch of png files. To upload them all, simply type:imgupload.py all png
All png files in the folder will be uploaded.:
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Nice. Note that you can also upload all of a certain type of images in a folder. Let’s say you have a bunch of png files. To upload them all, simply type:
imgupload.py all png
All png files in the folder will be uploaded.
Nice, I’ll add that to the post
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