Coppermine Photo gallery Upload Script
This week I bring you a script that I helped Kaleb (who has written posts here before) write. Well, I got him started with it, using curl and he rolled with it and finished it up. Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash # Script to Upload to http://kporter.homelinux.com/~kaleb/cpg14x # Written by Kaleb Porter May 23 2009 # with help of www.thelinuxblog.com # email: porterboy55@gmail.com # if you wish to use this code for something else please give me credit IMAGE="$1" URL="http://kporter.homelinux.com/~kaleb/cpg14x/upload.php" DA=`date '+%d%b%y-%N'` # If the user does not specify a file or url if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "You did not give a file to upload" echo "Takeing a screenshot in 3 Seconds..." sleep 3 scrot $DA.png IMAGE=$DA.png fi FI=`echo "$IMAGE" | grep '^[a-z]*://'` AL=2 FIUP=`curl -s -F control=phase_1 -F blaa=continue -F file_upload_array[]=@$IMAGE $URL | grep unique_ID | awk -F\" '{print $6}'` URLUP=`curl -s -F control=phase_1 -F blaa=continue -F URI_array[]=$IMAGE $URL | grep unique_ID | awk -F\" '{print $6}'` #Get the title for the image from the user and change all the spaces to "%20" echo "Enter a title for the image" read TITLE1 TITLE=`echo $TITLE1 | sed 's/ /\%20/g'` #Get the Description for the image from the user and change the spaces to "%20" echo "Enter a discription" read DES1 DES=`echo $DES1 | sed 's/ /\%20/g'` #Get the keywords for the image from the user and change the spaces to "%20" echo "Enter keywords (separated by spaces)" read KEY1 KEY=`echo $KEY1 | sed 's/ /\%20/g'` if [ -z "$FI" ]; then UNIQUE_ID=$FIUP #echo "Choose the NUMBER value for the album you want" #curl -s -F control=phase_2 -F unique_ID=$UNIQUE_ID $URL | awk '/name="album"/{disp=1} {if (disp==1) print} /<\/select>/{disp=0}' | grep 'value="[0-9]"' | sed 's/<option//' | sed 's/<\/option>//' | sed 's/>//' #read AL curl -o /dev/null -d "control=phase_2&unique_ID=$UNIQUE_ID&album=$AL&title=$TITLE&caption=$DES&keywords=$KEY&blaa=continue" $URL exit 0 else # If the image is from a URL UNIQUE_ID=$URLUP #echo "Choose the NUMBER value for the album you want" #curl -s -F control=phase_2 -F unique_ID=$UNIQUE_ID $URL | awk '/name="album"/{disp=1} {if (disp==1) print} /<\/select>/{disp=0}' | grep 'value="[0-9]"' | sed 's/<option//' | sed 's/<\/option>//' | sed 's/>//' #read AL curl -o /dev/null -d "control=phase_2&unique_ID=$UNIQUE_ID&album=$AL&title=$TITLE&caption=$DES&keywords=$KEY&blaa=continue" $URL exit 0 fi |
If there are any questions you can pretty much read the Shell Script Sundays column and figure out everything you need to know. Now that the upload script works, and tries to take a screenshot with scrot, the next step is a check to see if scrot exists, if it doesn’t a check for import, if not an error message.
It really does amaze me at the capabilities of the shell. Especially how mashable it is and how you can combine it with pretty much anything, this script is a great example of combining the power of the shell with the intrawebs. Well, I hoped you learned something, and as always if you have any questions, you know where the comment box is.
– Owen.
