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How to create an account, and upload an image with that account with imgur

I am designing a python GUI, one of its functions is taking a screenshot, uploading it to Imgur and then getting the URL. Though I am having issues understanding the documentation (especially since it says you need to create an account through the API, but not how to do it.). Would anyone be able to explain how exactly to create an account and then upload an image using it?

Note: I am using PIL to get the screenshots, I would prefer you explain it as code written with the requests library or maybe curl (as that isn't too hard to move to python with requests), and I'll be saving only the refresh token in the program, as it would be hardcoded (But the user can change it) and I don't want the user to authenticate.

Thanks in advance.

Edit 1: Also, I will not use imgurpython as it is outdated.

Solution

  • First you have to create normal account on Imgur.

    After loging to normal account you can go to https://api.imgur.com/oauth2/addclient to register application.

    It needs application name and email. Type of authorization depends on how you will use it.

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    You should get API keys

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    Which you can use with API

    To get information:

    import requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Client-ID f1XXXXXXXXXXXXX',
}

#https://i.imgur.com/cvWgXFc.jpg
imageHash = 'cvWgXFc'

r = requests.get(f'https://api.imgur.com/3/image/{imageHash}', headers=headers)
print('status:', r.status_code)
data = r.json()

print(data)
print('size:', data['data']['size'])

    Result:

    status: 200

{'data': {'id': 'cvWgXFc', 'title': None, 'description': None, 'datetime': 1579572289, 'type': 'image/jpeg', 'animated': False, 'width': 506, 'height': 500, 'size': 89341, 'views': 8087, 'bandwidth': 722500667, 'vote': None, 'favorite': False, 'nsfw': False, 'section': None, 'account_url': None, 'account_id': None, 'is_ad': False, 'in_most_viral': False, 'has_sound': False, 'tags': [], 'ad_type': 0, 'ad_url': '', 'edited': '0', 'in_gallery': False, 'link': 'https://i.imgur.com/cvWgXFc.jpg', 'ad_config': {'safeFlags': ['onsfw_mod_safe', 'share', 'page_load'], 'highRiskFlags': [], 'unsafeFlags': ['not_in_gallery', 'sixth_mod_unsafe'], 'wallUnsafeFlags': [], 'showsAds': False}}, 'success': True, 'status': 200}

size: 89341

    To upload:

    import requests
import base64

headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Client-ID f1XXXXXXXXXXXXX',
}

params = {
  'image': base64.b64encode(open('images.png', 'rb').read())
}

r = requests.post(f'https://api.imgur.com/3/image', headers=headers, data=params)
print('status:', r.status_code)
data = r.json()
print(data)

    BTW: you can see your registered applications and regenerate API keys (if you forget it) after login on https://imgur.com/account/settings/apps

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