Why?

I like an idea of cloudapp by Zach Holman. But I don't want to use gem and ruby. No, I do like Ruby. This is cool language and I'll plan to learn it and use it. But for now - I'm Pythonist. So I do my version of cloudapp but name it simply cloud

How?

You need to install Python wrapper of CloudApp API. Next:

git clone https://github.com/nilcolor/cloud.git
cd cloud
python cloud.py

Now you have basic ~/.cloud settings file which you have to edit. After that you can make this file executable and symlink it somewhere in the $PATH

To be able to run it like normal command you can do something like this:

# imagine we are still in cloud folder...
$ chmod +x cloud.py && ln -s `pwd`/cloud.py /usr/local/bin/cloud
# where `/usr/local/bin/cloud` is something from your $PATH

Now you can do cloud img1.png foto2.jpg video3.mp4 and get direct links in your clipboard.
Oh! If you like to have normal cl.ly link (not directly to files) - you can change mode value to view in your ~/.cloud file.

nilcolor/cloud

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