captured

Quick screen capture and sharing for Mac OS X.

I made captured because I wanted to customize and extend screen capture sharing programs, it is really intended for the commandline savvy.

So, I am making some assumptions about the environment that captured runs in. In particular it expects:

With that said, once things are installed and configured it really is handy.

Install

To install captured:

$ sudo gem install captured
$ captured --install

When you install an example config file to ~/.captured.yml, which has a few examples of possible configuration types.

The main use is to upload a screen shot taken using OS X's built in screen capture.

Captured can also be used from the command line to easily share files.

By default captured uses Imgur as the default host, but you can configure it to upload and share images by other services.

To edit the configuraiton:

$ open -e ~/.captured.yml

The simple image sharer. The default option.


upload:
  type: imgur

This service is a little slower, but is free and easy.


upload:
  type: imageshack

If you have you own web server scp is a very handy way to host your own captures.


upload:
  type: scp
  user: user
  password: secret
  host: example.com
  path: path/to/captured/
  url: "http://example.com/captured/"