What does Scrup do?<\/h2>\n
So, you need to share an image, or a screenshot really quickly? Using the standard OS X screenshot features (Command + Shift + 4, and so on), you can hit one button and upload the image to your webserver and put the link to it into your clipboard ready for pasting anywhere.<\/p>\n
It does also have the ability to edit the screenshot pre-upload (such as adding arrows to point to important, or awesome things)<\/p>\n
What you need<\/h2>\n\n- A server somewhere with some disk space<\/li>\n
- PHP 5<\/li>\n
- A webserver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
How?<\/h2>\n\n- Install the Scrup.app onto your Mac. I have a pre-compiled a version with the sound and Growl patch included<\/a>. You don’t have to use mine, you can compile it yourself using Xcode if you wish. (The source is on github here: https:\/\/github.com\/rsms\/scrup<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Create a folder on your webserver that you want to store your images in. I call mine “grb” (short for “grab”) because I like short URLs. (\/var\/www\/grb\/ -> http:\/\/laur.ie\/grb\/)<\/li>\n
- In that folder, put a script that will\u00a0receive\u00a0the files, and then return the URL to where it stored the file. You can view the one I use here<\/a> (modified from the one that ships with Scrup)\u00a0which names files something like “1s-euobfpq1xcwos.png” and has no authentication (so make sure you go the security-by-obscurity route of naming the script something random or add auth yourself)<\/li>\n
- Open Scrup, and point it at your upload script. For example, http:\/\/yourhost\/grb\/receiver.php?name={filename}
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<\/li>\n - Take screenshots! They should get uploaded and you should see a green tick in the menu bar. The URL of the uploaded image should also be in your clipboard, ready for pasting wherever.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
The best thing about Scrup is that it has a simple, fast UI for just uploading things quickly, and because it uses a regular HTTP POST, it works on whatever weird internet connection you may be on.<\/p>\n
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How?<\/h2>\n\n- Install the Scrup.app onto your Mac. I have a pre-compiled a version with the sound and Growl patch included<\/a>. You don’t have to use mine, you can compile it yourself using Xcode if you wish. (The source is on github here: https:\/\/github.com\/rsms\/scrup<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Create a folder on your webserver that you want to store your images in. I call mine “grb” (short for “grab”) because I like short URLs. (\/var\/www\/grb\/ -> http:\/\/laur.ie\/grb\/)<\/li>\n
- In that folder, put a script that will\u00a0receive\u00a0the files, and then return the URL to where it stored the file. You can view the one I use here<\/a> (modified from the one that ships with Scrup)\u00a0which names files something like “1s-euobfpq1xcwos.png” and has no authentication (so make sure you go the security-by-obscurity route of naming the script something random or add auth yourself)<\/li>\n
- Open Scrup, and point it at your upload script. For example, http:\/\/yourhost\/grb\/receiver.php?name={filename}<\/li>\n
- Take screenshots! They should get uploaded and you should see a green tick in the menu bar. The URL of the uploaded image should also be in your clipboard, ready for pasting wherever.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
The best thing about Scrup is that it has a simple, fast UI for just uploading things quickly, and because it uses a regular HTTP POST, it works on whatever weird internet connection you may be on.<\/p>\n
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<\/li>\nThe best thing about Scrup is that it has a simple, fast UI for just uploading things quickly, and because it uses a regular HTTP POST, it works on whatever weird internet connection you may be on.<\/p>\n
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Nowadays, people are really into this whole “Skitch” thing, and being able to send images\/screenshots to each other quickly. I’d been doing the same thing with TinyGrab for a long time, but I like to host things myself. Yes, TinyGrab has the ability to upload to your own server… but it uses FTP. This was … Continue reading Easy image sharing on OS X using Scrup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioRW-3t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}