Add bookmarklet to share screenshot on Pinterest

[pixelite]

Create a bookmarklet to share the public screenshot on Pinterest. The workflow would look something like this:

• Create a screenshot
• Click the bookmarklet to flag the current URL (the site from which the screenshot was taken)
• Paste the screenshot URL into the bookmarklet's dialog box
• Redirect to a Pinterest post page (see http://pinstamatic.com/#website for an example implementation)

[dergachev]

That's a good idea. Wish I thought of it myself!

Note that pinstamatic generates URLs of the following form:

http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=evolvingweb.ca&media=http%3A%2F%2Fpinstamatic.com%2Fapi%2Fsnap%3Ftype%3Djpeg%26render%3Dwebsite%26url%3Devolvingweb.ca&description=The%20website%20'evolvingweb.ca'%20courtesy%20of%20%40Pinstamatic%20(http%3A%2F%2Fpinstamatic.com)

[dergachev]

It might be relevant to see what you can do to Chrome via Apple Script.

See http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20101022032041191

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2483033/get-the-url-of-the-frontmost-tab-from-chrome-on-os-x

If this works, we could also try the following workflow:

• User activates bookmarklet
• Bookmarklet inject instructions to take screenshot in a non-intrusive (to screenshot) way, disappears for screenshot
• Screenshot placed into public location
• Applescript checks to see if chrome's active tab has screenshot-bookmarklet activated
• If so, it pops up pinterest box with prefilled stuff

That'd be ideal.

Alex Dergachev Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)

On Monday, 3 December, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Suzanne Kennedy wrote:

Create a bookmarklet to share the public screenshot on Pinterest. The workflow would look something like this: Create a screenshot Click the bookmarklet to flag the current URL (the site from which the screenshot was taken) Paste the screenshot URL into the bookmarklet's dialog box Redirect to a Pinterest post page (see http://pinstamatic.com/#website for an example implementation)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub (https://github.com/dergachev/copy-public-url/issues/3).

[dergachev]

In the future, we could just make an annotated screenshot bookmarklet/folder-action-script that's not specific to pinterest. (perhaps leveraging site44.com or wappwolf.com or pancake.io or just manually creating an HTML template as a file...)

In theory one could also leverage a service like wappwolf.com to receive notifications of uploaded files, and have the bookmarklet "claim" the last one.

Until this feature is implemented, users can just leverage pinstamatic.com/#website (though it's not ideal)

[dergachev]

Here's an example of going after the active tab (in safari this time): http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/939/new-safari-copy-tinyurl-to-clipboard-script/p1