I don't like the GUI way of taking screenshot,uploading it to imgur and get the uploaded link.
So what can I do to take a screenshot of my Ubuntu desktop, upload the screenshot to imgur.com and then get back the uploaded link from terminal?
All I have to do from terminal.
gnome-screenshot was the default command-line tool on Ubuntu to take a screenshot.
gnome-screenshot -d 10
Delayed the screenshot action by 10 seconds,So that you can place the desired window on front within 10 seconds.The taken images are actually stored in ~/Pictures folder.
gedit ~/.bashrc
Add the below lines to the opened .bashrc file and then save it.
imgur() {
for i in "$@"; do
curl -# -F "image"=@"$i" -F "key"="4907fcd89e761c6b07eeb8292d5a9b2a" imgur.com/api/upload.xml|
grep -Eo '<[a-z_]+>http[^<]+'|sed 's/^<.|_./U&/g;s/_/ /;s/<(.*)>/x1B[0;34m1:x1B[0m /'
done
}
Source the .bashrc file,so that the changes can take effect,
source ~/.bashrc
The above script requires curl package to work.So install it by running
sudo apt-get install curl
Then run the below command to upload the image stored in the ~/Pictures folder to imgur.com,
imgur ~/Pictures/filename.png
