Uploading with Zscreen?

TalkieT

Zscreen is a free, open source screen capture program with a bunch of options including uploading to tinypic and imageshack... It also seems to have custom options available for uploading through HTTP to anywhere else you can configure...

http://brandonz.net/



Does anyone here know if this can be used with Smugmug?

Cheers - N

Andy

No idea. Sure looks complicated. Why would you need to use this, vs. our Simple Uploader? Or a free program like Send To SmugMug? Or Star Explorer?

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Hacks+and+Apps

darryl

Andy: He wants to be able to take a screen cap and upload it directly to SmugMug from within the app. Saves several steps.

TalkieT: Looks interesting. Let me poke at it for a bit. I have a feeling it won't work though since the SmugMug API requires a separate call to login before it allows you to upload.

Andy

darryl wrote:

Andy: He wants to be able to take a screen cap and upload it directly to SmugMug from within the app. Saves several steps.

TalkieT: Looks interesting. Let me poke at it for a bit. I have a feeling it won't work though since the SmugMug API requires a separate call to login before it allows you to upload.

Gah! I misread the original note.

darryl

Took a look. The author (or somebody) would have to do a bit of work to make Zscreen compatible with SmugMug.

First off he'd need to add a section for your SmugMug username and password, as he does for Imageshack and TinyPic.

He'd then have to use the SmugMug API to generate a session key, and that session key would need to be passed when uploading. Also, you'd need an AlbumID (where do the photos get uploaded?)

Anyways, details are here: http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/API/show+1.2.2?method=smugmug.images.upload

Older docs are here:
http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Uploading

I guess under 1.2.2 MD5Sum and ByteCount are no longer required? That's good.

TalkieT

darryl wrote:

Took a look. The author (or somebody) would have to do a bit of work to make Zscreen compatible with SmugMug.

First off he'd need to add a section for your SmugMug username and password, as he does for Imageshack and TinyPic.

He'd then have to use the SmugMug API to generate a session key, and that session key would need to be passed when uploading. Also, you'd need an AlbumID (where do the photos get uploaded?)

Anyways, details are here: http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/API/show+1.2.2?method=smugmug.images.upload

Older docs are here:
http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Uploading

I guess under 1.2.2 MD5Sum and ByteCount are no longer required? That's good.

Thanks for having a look Darryl...

I guessed it might be a bit hard so eventually just configured it to upload to a local FTP site which is accessible to my webserver... SO now generating a screenshot and URL for someone is literally a 10 second operation... It's great how just hitting a hotkey, then typing a filename (or just hitting enter to accept the default) puts a URL in my paste buffer...

Cheers - N

Andy

TalkieT wrote:

SO now generating a screenshot and URL for someone is literally a 10 second operation..

Even easier is to use Jing (pc or Mac) or Skitch (Mac) both free and both awesome for screen grabs