Automatically upload screenshots from your computer into a discord channel

This script automaticall uploads new screenshots that appear in a folder on your computer to Discord and posts them in a channel:

Point it at your Steam screenshot folder, or similar, and shortly after you hit your screenshot hotkey the screenshot will appear in your discord chat.

What you'll need

A folder where screenshots are stored
A discord webhook
This script
perl installed (or the windows binary)

Getting started

Linux

Download this script:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tardisx/discord-auto-upload/master/dau

Put it somewhere on your path (if you want to be able to run it from anywhere)
chmod +x it
Install the dependencies:

CPAN: cpan install Mojolicious IO::Socket::SSL

CPANM: cpanm Mojolicious IO::Socket::SSL

Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install libmojolicious-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl

test it:

dau --help

Mac

Basically the same as Linux above. Perlbrew is highly recommended so as not to disturb the system perl. No need for superuser access then either.

Windows

Grab the windows exe file:

http://tba

Optional, put it somewhere on your path
Open a command prompt
Test it

\some\path\dau --help

If you want to hack it, audit it, or don't trust my exe, you can install Strawberry Perl and run it using that directly. You'll need the same dependencies mentioned above in the Linux setup.

Using it

dau is a command line driven program. When executed, it will continually scan a directory for new images, and each time it finds one it will upload it to discord, via the discord web hook.

dau will only upload "new" screenshots, where "new" means a file that appears in a directory that it is watching, if it appears after it has started executing.

Thus, you do not have to worry about pointing dau at a directory full of images, it will only upload new ones.

If dau is on your path, you can run it from your screenshot folder and there is then no need to specify the path to your images.

Note that currently dau does not look in subdirectories. Please submit an issue if this is a use case for you.

The only mandatory command line parameter is the discord webhook URL:

--webhook URL - the webhook URL (see here for details).

Other parameters are:

--watch xx - specify how many seconds to wait between scanning the directory. The default is 10 seconds.

--directory <somedir> - the directory to watch for images to appear in. If this option is not supplied, will look in the current directory.

You will have to quote the path on windows, or anywhere where the directory path contains spaces.

--username - supply a 'username' with the webhook submission. Slightly misleading, it basically provides some extra text next to the "Bot" display on the upload to the channel.

In the example screenshot, this was set to "tardisx uploaded from EDD".

--debug - provide extra debugging.

Limitations/bugs

Only files ending jpg, gif or png are uploaded
Subdirectories are not scanned.

TODO

This is just a quick hack. Open to suggestions on new features and improvements.

Open an issue and let me know.

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