A simple shell script to upload images to Imgur.

imgur

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# variables
img="$1"
tmp=/tmp/imgur
id='3e7a4deb7ac67da'
link='https://api.imgur.com/3/upload'

# functions
errcho() {
    >&2 echo "$*" 
    exit 1
}

check() {
    which "$1" || errcho "imgur: missing dependency: $1"
}

# deps
grep=$(check grep)
curl=$(check curl)
tr=$(check tr)

# args
[ $# -lt 1 ] && errcho "imgur: requires an image file path."

# main
$curl -sH "Authorization: Client-ID $id" -F "image=@${img}" "$link" > "$tmp" || errcho "imgur: curl failed."

if [[ $(cat "$tmp") =~ http ]]; then
    $grep -oE "http:.*\.[a-z]{3,4}" "$tmp" | $tr -d '\\'
else
    errcho "imgur: $(cut -d'"' -f6 "$tmp" | $tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"
fi