ShareDrop

ShareDrop is a system that eases file sharing on Linux, provided you've got your own server to store the files.

It works by monitoring a folder for file creation or modification and by automatically and securely synchronizing these files to your web server through rsync.

Requirements

bash (tested with 4.2.42)
sha1sum (tested with the version from GNU coreutils 8.21)
fswatch
convert
a web server

Also depending on the sync_command

ssh (tested with OpenSSH 6.1)
rsync (tested with 3.0.9)

Linux

notify-send (tested with the version from libnotify 0.7.5)

OSX

terminal-notifier (optional)

$ brew install fswatch
$ brew install imagemagick

Setup

ShareDrop needs some (quite easy) setup.

Define a VirtualHost (or equivalent) on your Web server that allows serving files from a given directory
Write a config file for ShareDrop (see below)
Run sharedrop.sh
Drop files in the folder you launched ShareDrop in
Wait for the notification giving you an URL for your file

Persistent setup

You may also want to automatically run ShareDrop on session start. You can give a path to ShareDrop to monitor as the first argument of the command. This should ease setting up your session manager.

Configuration

ShareDrop is configured through a config.sh file in a standard configuration folder (if you haven't tweaked $XDG_CONFIG_HOME then it's likely to be in $HOME/.config/sharedrop/). This file must define two bash variables:

$REMOTE: an rsync remote folder specification (such as example.com:public_html/)
$BASE_URL: the URL for the VirtualHost you configured in your web server (e.g.: http://example.com/share/)