Things I want # 5236 - copy/paste on the web

[andrewducker]

A teeny program which allows me to paste images into it. It will then upload that image to photobucket and give me back a URL.

That way I can hit print-screen, paste it into the app, copy the url and paste that into whatever web discussion I'm in.

Comments

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

Well write one then you fussy thing.

In all seriousness, I would be surprised if something like this didn't exist.
Personally I'm a dinosaur and still use SmartFTP for all my upload needs as your can give it a huge list of files and leave it to go. Of course it also allows you to copy/paste where the file has been put on the right click options which is nice.
This is of course free software (unless you're a business).

[andrewducker]

If I could hit print-screen and then paste it straight into a file that would be a start. But sadly Explorer doesn't cope with that.

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

Well even you have to admit it is a strange thing to want - people have real issues with photos/pictures being nabbed of the internet without permission.
I believe even if you did have such a program/add-on the copyright people would go ballistic.

[andrewducker]

Really?

I shouldn't be able to take a screenshot and post it online?

I see a lot of those...

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

Mostly that's fine of course, I don't believe anyone has been got for that yet - but then only certain games allow screenshots.
I think you'll find many disable any screenshot facility just for the copyright reasons.

[andrewducker]

They may try. I've yet to see any program that hypersnap DX couldn't get a screenshot of :->

Oh, and in this case I'm screenshotting Thunderbird.

[matgb]

Obv not a coder, but Irfanview running in the bacture in capture mode allows you to screendump directly to a file, if Irfanview can do it then the rest is easy, surely?

[andrewducker]

Oh, it's _all_ easy. But that process still requires me to find the file, run a program to upload it, and grab the new URL.

I want to hit Windows-P and have it take an image from the clipboard and replace it with a URL. One single action.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Come on. That'd take you 10 minute to write.

Even a dirty C# coder like you.

[andrewducker]

Apparently there's no external API for photobucket.

Maybe I can look at flickr at some point...

[robhu.livejournal.com]

What The Hell?

It would take about 5 minutes to Make It Work with Mechanize in Ruby (and so I assume in Perl too). API? pfft.

[andrewducker]

Woss Mechanize?

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Gadzooks man have you not encountered Google?

Here is a random example.

[andrewducker]

Aaah, yes. Looks nicely simple. The C# would be more complex - but not vastly so.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Never tried it, but would SHUP do something like that? It does have the extra step of allowing you to add tags and crop the image which you don't want ...

Shup is a small program that lives in your system tray, waiting for you to activate it via customizable hotkeys.

Once activated, Shup will capture your desktop or the currently active window and opens the builtin image editor that allows you to paint, crop, etc; you can also rename the file and add upload tags.

After you are done editing the image, it is uploaded to any of the supported file hosts (Stashbox, Flickr, PhotoBucket, WaffleImages, ImageShack) and the new URL is placed into your clipboard for easy access.