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So far, all of our lua code has been in luarc. That’s a good way to develop your script but not very practical for distribution. We need to make this into a proper lua module. To do that, we save the code in a separate file (scp-storage.lua in this case):

--[[
SCP STORAGE
a simple storage to export images via scp

AUTHOR
Jérémy Rosen (jeremy.rosen@enst-bretagne.fr)

INSTALLATION
* copy this file in $CONFIGDIR/lua/ where CONFIGDIR
is your darktable configuration directory
* add the following line in the file $CONFIGDIR/luarc
  require "scp-storage"

USAGE
* select "Export via SCP" in the storage selection menu
* set the target directory 
* export your images

LICENSE
GPLv2

]]
darktable = require "darktable"
darktable.configuration.check_version(...,{2,0,0})

local scp_path = darktable.new_widget("entry"){
  tooltip ="Complete path to copy to. Can include user and hostname",
  text = "",
  reset_callback = function(self) self.text = "" end
}

darktable.register_storage("scp_export","Export via scp",
  function( storage, image, format, filename,
     number, total, high_quality, extra_data)
    if coroutine.yield("RUN_COMMAND","scp "..filename.." "..
      scp_path.text
    ) then
      darktable.print_error("scp failed for "..tostring(image))
    end
    end,
    nil, --finalize
    nil, --supported
    nil, --initialize
    darktable.new_widget("box") {
    orientation ="horizontal",
    darktable.new_widget("label"){label = "target SCP PATH "},
    scp_path,
})

darktable will look for scripts (following the normal lua rules) in the standard directories plus $CONFIGDIR/lua/*.lua. So our script can be called by simply adding require "scp-storage" in the luarc file. A couple of extra notes…

The function darktable.configuration.check_version will check compatibility for you. The “...” will turn into your script’s name and {2,0,0} is the API version you have tested your script with. You can add multiple API versions if you update your script for multiple versions of darktable.
Make sure to declare all your functions as local so as not to pollute the general namespace.
Make sure you do not leave debug prints in your code – darktable.print_error in particular allows you to leave debug prints in your final code without disturbing the console.
You are free to choose any license for your script but scripts that are uploaded on darktable’s website need to be GPLv2.

Once you have filled all the fields, checked your code, you can upload it to our script page here.

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