wulfovitch.net

Dropzone SCP Script with Gallery Creation

Dropzone is a great tool for all your drag & drop needs on a OS X system. Also cool about dropzone is, that you can extend it to your personal needs. I’ve always wanted a tiny little helper where I can drop my files onto. A gallery should automatically be created from these files and this gallery should be uploaded to my webspace afterwards. This kind of script would especially be useful if I wanted to show a friend some pictures rather quickly. I’ve never found a really good working solution for this on the web. At the end, I’ve created this dropzone script which does what I needed:

This script takes care of a few things:

• If there is more than one file dropped onto the script, a gallery is created automatically.
• Big pictures are being resized to a reasonable size.
• Files which are not pictures are only getting linked to.
• You can enter a name for the gallery, if you are pressing the ‘Control’ key when dropping the files.
• After the upload, the url of the file or the gallery is pasted to the clipboard.

You need to have ImageMagick installed, if you want to get the resizing to work. The easiest way to install it, is via MacPorts and the following terminal command:

sudo port install ImageMagick

If you don’t have ImageMagick installed, the pictures will be uploaded as is without resizing.

You can obtain the script at github or download it here.

Update

The script resides now at the official dropzone user scripts repository, too!