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Alfredinary

Alfred 👉 Take Screenshot 👉 Cloudinary 👉 Clipboard

Features

This workflow provides this in a single command:

Take screenshot on your mac
Upload it to Cloudinary
Get back the https image link in your clipboard
Paste and use! <kbd>cmd ⌘</kbd>+<kbd>V</kbd>

Why?

Quickly share screenshots
No need to store the files on your computer if you don't want.
Https image links
Secure
All the benefits from Cloudinary. Image management, image management transformations (ex via URL parameters), cloud storage, fast delivery via CDN.

Install

Install the npm package

npm install -g alfredinary

Create env-file. When installed, open up Alfred Workflows and right click to open the workflow directory in Terminal/finder. Create an .env file in the project root. You can rename .env-example to .env. Edit PATHNAME AND FILENAME as you wish.

CLOUDNAME="XXXXX"
APIKEY="XXXXXXXXXXXX"
APISECRET="XXXXXXXXXXXX"
PATHNAME="/users/myusername/Pictures/screenshots/"
FILENAME="screenshot.jpg"
FOLDERNAME="/alfred"

Get cloudname, apikey and apisecret from your account on Cloudinary. Don't have an account? Get one. It's free.

Edit temp location (pathname and filename) of the screenshot on disk. The default is /users/${username}/Pictures/screenshots/screenshot.jpg

Edit the yellow bash script in the image below.

<img width="931" alt="Workflow" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/307676/19521747/1cf6bc2e-9615-11e6-96d5-79ea022918dc.png">

Use

Open up Alfred and type "Alfredinary". Or just begin typing "Alfredi..", or "Alf..." + <kbd>Enter</kbd>

<img width="701" alt="Alfred" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/307676/19521683/c3a6a33c-9614-11e6-9b4b-b537807d1135.png">

Take a screenshot as usual, mark section of your screen or use <kbd>Space</kbd> to select the current window.
Alfredinary now uploads that screenshot to your Cloudinary account, and you will get back a https image link.
<kbd>cmd ⌘</kbd>+<kbd>V</kbd>

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