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Upload your screenshots to Flickr

October 30th, 2008
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There were several requests for integrating a flickr upload to GScrot in the last weeks.

Well, why should we reinvent the wheel when there already are pretty good solutions to do such a thing? An application I like very much is Postr by Ross Burton (http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/postr).

It is very easy to use and integrates well in the Gnome- or XFCE-Desktop. There are just a few steps to integrate postr into GScrot.

The following guidelines suggest you are using the latest version of GScrot and Ubuntu, but except the installation part it is similar when using an alternative distro.
  1. Installation of Postr using apt-get (of course you can use synaptic, aptitude etc. as well)

    2. open a terminal and install Postr using the following command: sudo apt-get install postr

  2. Configure Gscrot (Edit>>Preferences – Advanced>>Open with)

    Choose Flickr Uploader from the list. Activate the checkbox if you want to open your screenshot automatically with Postr after every single capture.

  3. Take screenshot(s) and open them with Postr

    Just use the open button to open your screenshot(s) with the configured application (Postr in this case).

  4. That’s it!

    As you can see all three screenshots were exported to Postr. You can now just use Postr...

Thanks, Ross! Great Application.

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  1. Vadim P.
    October 30th, 2008 at 22:59 | #1
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    The issue here is that you have to edit preferences for “open” button every single time you want to change it.

  2. admin
    October 30th, 2008 at 23:45 | #2
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    Maybe we should add a little dropdown menu to the open button and list all apps there.
    I’ll put it on the list for 0.64 (0.63 will be released in the next days).

  3. suribe
    October 31st, 2008 at 01:23 | #3
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    waiting the 0.64!! ;)

  4. Edwood Ocasio
    November 9th, 2008 at 12:25 | #4
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    Great tool!

    Trying to find more plugins, will appreciate an url.

    Tahnks

  5. tom t.
    December 17th, 2008 at 15:12 | #5
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    Hey awesome tool,well done :-) !!!

    one request,is it easy to integrate a photobucket uploader too ???

    thanks :-)

  6. admin
    January 2nd, 2009 at 21:37 | #6
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    Thanks. There will hopefully be a photobucket upload as well, but we have currently only one developer ( me ;-) ) and this will definitely take some time.

    Just stay tuned…

  7. csola
    January 3rd, 2009 at 15:41 | #7
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    How I am to add a host the upload mine screenshots (Preferences > Upload main) ?

    • admin
      January 5th, 2009 at 13:00 | #8
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      Currently there is no way of adding a new hosting-site manually because the upload funtionality needs to be implemented for every single hosting-site. Maybe this will change in the future.

      Do you have any special hosting-site you would like to see in GScrot?

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