CapShare

Capshare is a really fast way to share a screencapture. It's a background daemon for OS X so once you set it up it's always running.

How it works

The CapShare daemon watches a specified folder on your machine. When a file is added to that folder it immediately uploads the file to an s3 bucket and copies the https link to your clipboard.

Because it's just a folder it will also work if you drag or copy an image to that folder.

Dependencies

• Node.js
• An s3 bucket
• OS X

Setup

First install the capshare binary.

npm install -g capshare

Next thing you will want to do is change the folder where your screen captures are saved.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures/capshare && killall SystemUIServer

Here I am using ~/Pictures/capshare.

Then you will want to setup the launchd config:

curl http://raw.githiub.... > ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.bhelx.capshare.plist

Edit these fields in that file:

    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/usr/local/bin/capshare</string>
      <string>{{absolute_path_to_capshare_folder}}</string>
      <string>{{bucket_name}}</string>
      <string>{{s3_access_id}}</string>
      <string>{{s3_secret}}</string>
    </array>

You might want to ensure the capshare binry is where I think it is with:

which capshare

You also may want to consider creating a user in s3 for specifically accessing your bucket so it will be easy to revoke.

Now to laucnh the daemon

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.bhelx.capshare.plist

If you need to stop it at any point you can do so with unload

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.bhelx.capshare.plist

Done

Now if you take a screencap you will almost immediately have an https link in your copy buffer so you can paste to whoever you need to share with.