automate ftp upload script

[chr1z]

i would like to have a script which takes a screenshot
and uploads it to a ftp server.
any idea how i a simple bash script could look like?

[neenee]

i am interested in exact this as well.

[scriptkiddie]

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge fbgrab

Set the following up as a cron job weekly or whatever

#!/bin/bash
fbgrab ~/console.png
echo "Screenshot taken!"
# Insert FTP stuff here... I'm no good with command line FTP
echo "Upload Successfully"

[neenee]

i made something this afternoon (just finished it)
to take a screenshot, upload it to ftp, and then
open my browser on that page to check it.

ingredients:

scrot
lftp
a browser

first, i created a directory ~/.shot_script to put
everything in. then, i created 'shot.ftp' in that
dir, which contains the following commands
to be called for by lftp:

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open ftp://username:password@server.com
rm shot.png
put ~/.shot_script/shot.png
exit

this will connect to your server of choice, remove
any existing screenshot, then put your new shot
where it was, and then it will end lftp.

next, i created the file 'shot.script', which holds
the commands to take the screenshot, run lftp
set to run commands from shot.ftp, remove the
shot which was just uploaded and then it will
run your browser of choice which will open the
url to your shot.

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scrot ~/.shot_script/shot.png 
lftp -f ~/.shot_script/shot.ftp
rm ~/.shot_script/shot.png
[browser] http://url_to_shot.png

next, i ran chmod +x ~/.shot_script/shot.script
to make the script executable.

and last but not least, i added a link to that
script in my popup menu (which will cause scrot
to take a shot without the popup menu open,
since the popup menu closes at release so the
shot is nice and clean).

the command to put in your menu is:

exec ~/.shot.script


that's all folks. enjoy.

[neenee]

i am now using import to take the screenshot,
and also i am using the jpeg format now, with
a high quality setting, so that it looks almost
the same as the png version, while often being
a lot smaller in filesize.

the line to take the shot is:

import -window root -quality 90 ~/.shot_script/shot.jpg

and replace the instances of shot.png in both the
shot.script + shot.ftp files with shot.jpg.

enjoy.

[neenee]

i just noticed that the quality variable with scrot sets the
compression ratio for png. since png looks better than
jpeg, even when compressed, i now use:

scrot -q 1 ~/.shot_script/shot.png

which often makes a smaller file than the jpeg with higher
quality.

hurray

ps. for a more advanced script, check here