An open-source self hosted image sharing platform.

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About

ShotShare is an open source, self hosted, bare bones image posting/sharing platform, it was built to allow friends to upload screenshots and send links to their friends without the constant barrage of ads/extraneous features.

Demo

A demo may be found here. This environment is strictly for trialing the application; images added here are automatically cleaned up after a few minutes.

Installation, Configuration, & Local Development

ShotShare is meant to be extremely easy to self host. Below is a sample deployment using Docker.

Example Deployment with Docker

1. Create a directory for ShotShare: sudo mkdir /shotshare
2. Create persistent files: sudo touch /shotshare/.env /shotshare/database.sqlite
3. Ensure the user/group 82 (www-data user in docker container) own the .env file: sudo chown 82:82 /shotshare/.env /shotshare/database.sqlite
4. Start the ShotShare container

You may wish to customize environment variables (such as the HOST) before running this command, see below for a list of environment variables.

If you used ShotShare before 1.5.1, the "database" mount has changed to a file bind, you will need to manually migrate your database.sqlite file to use these new commands.

Run in HTTPS mode

This will use Caddy's Automatic HTTPs setup generate SSL certificates, handle renewals, and automagically redirect your visitors to HTTPS. For most scenarios, this is the "preferred" installation method.

docker run \
  -p 80:80 \
  -p 443:443 \
  -e HOST=localhost \
  -e FEATURE_UUID_ROUTES=true \
  -v shotshare_caddy_data:/data/caddy \
  -v shotshare_caddy_config:/config/caddy \
  -v shotshare_data:/app/storage/app/uploads" \
  --mount type=bind,source=/shotshare/database.sqlite,target=/app/database/database.sqlite \
  --mount type=bind,source=/shotshare/.env,target=/app/.env \
  -d \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  --name shotshare \
  mdshack/shotshare:latest

Run in HTTP mode

This will not issue any SSL and will just serve over HTTP. This may be useful if you plan to front ShotShare with your own reverse proxy.

If you plan to force HTTPS before it gets to ShotShare, you will also need to force ShotShare to utilize HTTPS links, you may do so by adding -e FORCE_HTTPS=true.

docker run \
  -p 80:80 \
  -e HOST=":80" \
  -e FEATURE_UUID_ROUTES=true \
  -v shotshare_data:/app/storage/app/uploads" \
  --mount type=bind,source=/shotshare/database.sqlite,target=/app/database/database.sqlite \
  --mount type=bind,source=/shotshare/.env,target=/app/.env \
  -d \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  --name shotshare \
  mdshack/shotshare:latest

Configuration Options

Note: These are not all of the configuration options, only the most used ones, feel free to open a PR if you see any missing. For a more in-depth look at all the available options check out here.

Environment Variable	Default	Options	Description
ALLOW_REGISTRATION	true	true, false	Allows new users to register
DB_CONNECTION	sqlite	sqlite,mysql,pgsql,sqlsrv	Indicates what database connection will be used
DB_HOST	127.0.0.1	N/A	Not required if using sqlite, indicates the database host
DB_PORT	3306	N/A	Not required if using sqlite, indicates the database port
DB_DATABASE	shotshare	N/A	Not required if using sqlite, indicates the database database
DB_USERNAME	shotshare	N/A	Not required if using sqlite, indicates the database username
DB_PASSWORD	none	N/A	Not required if using sqlite, indicates the database password
FEATURE_REACTIONS	true	true, false	Adds shot reactions (ability to upvote/downvote shots)
FEATURE_UUID_ROUTES	false	true, false	Utilizes UUIDs instead of IDs, will be the default in 2.0.0
FEATURE_FOOTER	true	true, false	Adds credits footer ("Made with love" + "Check out source code"), leaving these should help generate additional traffic to this project, keeping it alive
HOST	localhost	N/A	Public host used by Caddy, thanks to caddy, this host will automatically be issued a SSL certificate
PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT	128M	N/A	Memory limit for PHP FPM
PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE	2M	N/A	Max allowed upload size (Must include file size unit)
PHP_MAX_UPLOADS	20	N/A	Max number of file uploads in a single request
PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE	8M	N/A	Max size of a POST request
SHOTS_LINKS_SHARE_LINK	true	true, false	Indicates if the "Share Link" will be displayed on the shot screen
SHOTS_LINKS_DIRECT_LINK	true	true, false	Indicates if the "Direct Link" will be displayed on the shot screen
SHOTS_LINKS_MARKDOWN_REDDIT	true	true, false	Indicates if the "Markdown (Reddit)" link will be displayed on the shot screen
SHOTS_LINKS_MARKDOWN_OTHER	true	true, false	Indicates if the "Markdown (GitHub & StackOverflow)" link will be displayed on the shot screen
SHOTS_LINKS_BBCODE	true	true, false	Indicates if the "BBCode" link will be displayed on the shot screen
SHOTS_LINKS_HTML	true	true, false	Indicates if the "HTML" link will be displayed on the shot screen

Commands

Note: these are all "artisan" commands, and thus must be prefixed with php artisan (ex. php artisan shotshare:clean-images). These also must be executed inside of your docker container, an easy way to do that is using docker exec -it shotshare php artisan [command you wish to issue].

Environment Variable	Description
shotshare:clean-images	Clears out all images (from storage and application)
shotshare:create-user	Creates a new user (useful for ALLOW_REGISTRATION=false)

Local Development

Local development is done using docker compose

1. Pull the repo: git clone git@github.com:mdshack/shotshare.git
2. Change to the ShotShare directory: cd shotshare
3. Install dependencies: composer install; npm install
4. Build frontend: npm run build
5. Start docker compose: docker compose up

ShareX Setup

ShotShare is configured to work with ShareX a popular screenshot tool. Included in this repo is an example configuration (/shotshare.sxcu). Below are a few instructions on how to get this running on your local install.

1. On your ShotShare profile page (when logged in it will be at {your installation}/profile), create a new API key
2. Copy the contents of /shotshare.sxcu into a notepad
3. Replace {Your ShotShare URL} with your ShotShare installation URL, for example https://demo.shotshare.dev
4. Replace {Your API Key} with the API key you created in step #1
5. Copy the contents of your modified shotshare.sxcu
6. In ShareX, click Destinations -> Custom Uploader Settings -> Import -> From Clipboard
7. On the main screen of ShareX, click Destinations -> Image Uploader -> Custom Image Uploader
8. Take a test snapshot (ctrl + print screen), ensure you get a link to ShotShare in your clipboard

Shutter Setup

Shutter is an advanced screenshot tool for Linux, with support for custom upload plugins.

A plugin has been created to allow Shutter to upload screenshots and return the resulting ShotShare url.

Contributing

There is currently no established pattern for contributing, if you see something missing or feel like something could be better feel free to pop open an issue and/or PR.

License

ShotShare is open-sourced and licensed under the MIT License.