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# Automatically upload screenshots into a discord channel
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This program automatically uploads new screenshots that appear in a folder on your computer to Discord and posts them in a channel:
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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.
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## What you'll need
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* A folder where screenshots are stored
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* A [discord webhook](https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intro-to-Webhooks)
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* This program
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## Getting started
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### Binaries
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Binaries are available for Mac, Linux and Windows [here](https://github.com/tardisx/discord-auto-upload/releases/latest).
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#### From source
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You'll need to [download Go](https://golang.org/dl/) check the code out somewhere, run 'go generate' and then 'go build'.
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## Using it
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`dau` configuration is managed via its internal web interface. When the executable is run, you can visit
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`http://localhost:9090` in your web browser to configure the it. Configuration persists across runs, it is
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saved in a file called '.dau.json' in your home directory.
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The first time you run it, you will need to configure at least the discord web hook and the watch path for
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`dau` to be useful.
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While running, `dau` 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.
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`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.
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Thus, you do not have to worry about pointing `dau` at a directory full of images, it will only upload new ones.
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## Configuration options
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See the web interface at http://localhost:9090 to configure `dau`.
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### 'Discord WebHook URL'
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The webhook URL from Discord. See https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intro-to-Webhooks
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for more information on setting one up.
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### 'Bot Username'
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This is completely optional and can be any arbitrary string. It makes the upload
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appear to come from a different user (though this is visual only, and does not
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actually hide the bot identity in any way). You might like to set it to your own
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discord name.
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### 'Directory to watch'
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This is the path that `dau` will periodically inspect, looking for new images.
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Note that subdirectories are also scanned. You need to enter the full filesystem
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path here.
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### 'Period between filesystem checks'
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This is the number of seconds between which `dau` will look for new images.
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### 'Do not watermark images'
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This will disable the watermarking of images. I like it when you don't set this :-)
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### 'Files to exclude'
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This is a string to match against the filename to check for exclusions. The common
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use case is to use 'thumbnail' or similar if your image directory contains additional
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thumbnail files.
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## Limitations/bugs
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* Only files ending jpg, gif or png are uploaded.
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* If multiple screenshots occur quickly (<1 second apart) not all may be uploaded.
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* Files to upload are determined by the file modification time. If you drag and drop existing files they will
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not be detected and uploaded. Only newly created files will be detected.
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## TODO
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This is just a relatively quick hack. Open to suggestions on new features and improvements.
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Open an [issue](https://github.com/tardisx/discord-auto-upload/issues/new) and let me know.
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Please include any relevant logs from the console when reporting bugs.
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