R: upload images to imgur

Question

I have a folder with some images (in .png and .jpg). My goal is to upload them all to imgur.com and get back the links or ids from each one.

I tried to install both packages imguR and imgur_upload but failled to install them.

Is there any quick workouround?

Answer 1

You can do this with knitr. This will upload an image and return your URL:

setwd("yourWD")
install.packages(knitr)
install.packages("RCurl")
install.packages("XML")
knitr::imgur_upload("fish2.jpg", key = "Yourimguraccountkey")