I’m trying Flameshot for sharing with friends and family across the internet.
How may I configure to not receive the following error?
I know it say’s “too many requests”.
I tried only once.
Your error seems to be an issue with the imgur account you are using. On flameshots github you get an answer by meandrii:
(…) You are using our account to upload (along with thousands of other users) and running out of quota. (…)
And you get a possible soution Creating your own custom Client ID there, too.
That’s something that wasn’t mentioned in the install instrunction’s.
The instrunction’s you provide say’s to “login”. I believe I still need to create my account before I can login. Does it cost for basic use?
Why don’t you take a look yourself? Sorry if this is sounding rude but this is not related to Ubuntu. It’s related to third party software. And all I do is searching the internet (for you) …
As far as I know by now imgur is free for personal use. But please read yourself imgur: Terms of Service and imgur help.
Why should this be part of the install instructions?
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I did some digging. Imgur no longer does the whole API thing, so you can’t get your own client ID.
I am not suggesting you do so, nor will I help you do so. If you search the web, you can find IDs out there. I tested a few until I found one that worked. After that, I put it back to the existing ID. I’ll just upload via the web interface, that way the images are in my account. I prefer that more than any automated solution.
That appears to be legacy information, or maybe for people who still have API access.
From what I read, and what I could find, it no longer works. Try to follow the directions in your Imgur account and the very first step is blank. You can’t add any connected apps. That area is still in my account, but there’s nothing there to do.
Are you just wanting to share images with family? If so you can set up an SFTP server and they can access your system, securely, and see all the files you want
@KGIII Did you follow the link provided in post #5 and read the information? You find a link to imgur status and information on api handled via Postman. There is also information on commercial usage and rate limits (and differences to non commercial usage).
I can’t say if the information provided by imgur themselves about their API is up to date or not but did you try it?
You will need a public IP address (dynamic with ddns configured or static) for this to work. Most ISPs usually provide only private IP addresses. And keep in mind that this way you open up your system to the internet. Be sure to configure security properly!
You can solve this using a VPN provider and setting up VPN for all (s)ftp users, too.
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After starting this thread, I read somewhere about flameshot being deprecated. So much that it is no longer being maintained.
I had no idea it was gonna take all this, just to get flameshot working.
Lightshot on Windows, just install, reboot, and it works using prtsc key. Reqular interval maintenance (updates) is required to keep it working.
But lightshot in wine doesn’t take a screenshot image like I’m used to. Nothing takes an image for sharing like I’m used to. Its like the prtsc key is ignored no matter what.
Screengrab works, but I haven’t found a way to share with friends n family across the internet. I can share screengrab images here on discourse, but friends n family across the internet i haven’t yet found how to share using screengrab.
Have you considered adding Lightshot as a browser extension?
I use it all the time and you can either save to their servers and share a link or save to the desktop.
With the browser extension you can define the keyboard shortcut you want to use, does not have to be Prtsc.
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I never used it as a browser extension. I’m not sure how that would even work.
How might I set that up?
Let’s assume for arguments sake you are using Firefox.
Go here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightshot/ and install the extension.
I think the default is to use Prtsc but you should also be able to define your own shortcut.
Take screenshots and choose to save to the desktop.
From there, well I guess you have options such as create an email group and send or perhaps a Whatsapp group for friends and family and then send the images.
When you take the screenshot the usual options for editing, like adding arrows etc. are available before saving
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I was under the impression that the one I’m sharing the image with has to be using that same browser.
That’s the reason I haven’t tried the browser extension.
I’m using brave for daily use and falkon for things such as verifying links, etc.
I think it should also work with Brave:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lightshot-screenshot-tool/mbniclmhobmnbdlbpiphghaielnnpgdp
Not as far as I know. Not sure why that would even be set as a limitation.
I send screenshots to people all over the place, using different browsers and operating systems.
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I just searched the web for ‘flameshot deprecated’. It looks like Flameshot is being deprecated in Homebrew for macOS. And I found something like ‘flameshot: snap install failing due to deprecated dependency’.
I can’t find anything saying that flameshot itself will be discontinued.
@WyattWhiteEagle Where did you get your information?
Those are the deprecation info’s I seen.
In my experience’s, MacOS seems mighty close to *buntu not following far behind.
And anything I’ve tried with flameshot has turned out to be a fail for me.
In Homebrew for macOS flameshot is deprecated because of an issue with Gatekeeper (security feature for macOS). I do not see anything related to *buntu.
Maybe changes in Homebrew will affect Homebrew for macOS and Homebrew for *buntu. But it most likely will not affect other ways (deb, snap, AppImage, …) of installing flameshot.
Sounds like flameshot does not suite you.
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@WyattWhiteEagle Which Ubuntu flavour and which version are you using?
I ask because I’m on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and with standard keyboard shortcuts pressing
[shift]+[PrtSc]
takes a screenshot and saves it directly to
/home/[user]/Pictures/Screenshots
To share this you may sync this folder to a cloud drive or use any other way to share the files.
