wl-paste-uploader

wl-paste share to a file host (0x0.st, catbox.moe, x0.at, envs.sh) and copy result url to clipboard

Installation

• Prebuilt binaries

• Nix flake

  as profile

  nix profile install github:labi-le/wl-paste-uploader
  

  import the module

  {
    # inputs
    wl-uploader.url = "github:labi-le/wl-paste-uploader";
    # outputs
    overlay-wl-uploader = final: prev: {
      wl-uploader = wl-uploader.packages.${system}.default;
    };
  
    modules = [
      ({ config, pkgs, ... }: { nixpkgs.overlays = [ overlay-wl-uploader ]; })
    ];
  
    # add package
    environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
      wl-uploader
    ];
  }
  

  nixos module

  {
    # inputs
    wl-uploader.url = "github:labi-le/wl-paste-uploader";
  
    # outputs
    modules = [
      wl-uploader.nixosModules.default
      {
        programs.wl-paste-uploader = {
          enable = true;
          ocr = true; # optional: pull in tesseract for `--ocr`
          provider = "catbox"; # optional: default upload provider (UPLOADER_PROVIDER)
        };
      }
    ];
  }
  

usage:

wl-uploader

example for sway

bindsym --to-code Mod4+p exec wl-uploader

with proxy

socks_proxy=socks5://127.0.0.1:1088 wl-uploader

you can also use env HTTPS_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY, SOCKS_PROXY, ALL_PROXY

Providers

Choose where to upload with --provider (or the UPLOADER_PROVIDER env var; the flag takes precedence). Default: 0x0.

• 0x0 — 0x0.st, size-based retention
• x0 — x0.at, 3–100 days
• envs — envs.sh, size-based retention
• catbox — catbox.moe, permanent (anonymous files removed after 2 years without access)

wl-uploader --provider catbox

example for sway

bindsym --to-code Mod4+p exec wl-uploader --provider catbox

OCR

With --ocr the text is recognized from the clipboard image and copied to the clipboard instead of being uploaded:

wl-uploader --ocr

Requires tesseract in PATH. Pick the recognition language(s) with OCR_LANG (defaults to tesseract's own default, usually eng):

OCR_LANG=eng+rus wl-uploader --ocr

example for sway

bindsym --to-code Mod4+o exec wl-uploader --ocr