Shell script to upload image(s) to imgur.com

imgur

#!/bin/sh
#
# Upload image(s) to imgur.com
# Copyright (C) 2014  Vivien Didelot <[email protected]>
# Licensed under GPL version 3, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
#
# Requires "jshon":
#   http://kmkeen.com/jshon/
#
# Alternatives, which suck:
#   http://imgur.com/tools/imgurbash.sh
#   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonApps/imgur-screenshot/master/imgur-screenshot.sh
#
# Usage:
#   imgur <file>...
#   Specify <file> as '-' for standard input.
#
# Examples:
#
# * Upload several images:
#   imgur foo.png bar.png
#
# * Take a screenshot and upload it:
#   import png:- | imgur -
#
# * Copy the url to clipboard:
#   imgur <file> | xclip
#
# * Open the result in a web browser:
#   imgur <file> | xargs firefox
#
# * Quick use (no installation):
#   curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/vivien/9768953/raw/imgur | sh -s <file>

# API key from [email protected], see imgurbash.sh
KEY=b3625162d3418ac51a9ee805b1840452

die () {
  echo "$1" >&2
  exit 1
}

# Syntax check
[ $# -lt 1 ] && die "usage: imgur <file>... (use - for stdin)"

# Upload every file given as argument
for IMG in "$@"
do
  # A more verbose version of `curl -s [...] | jshon -Q -e rsp -e image -e original_image -u`

  RESP="`curl -sS -F key=$KEY -H 'Expect: ' -F "image=@$IMG" http://imgur.com/api/upload.json 2>&1`"
  [ $? -ne 0 ] && die "$IMG: $RESP"

  URL=`echo "$RESP" | jshon -Q -e rsp -e image -e original_image -u`
  [ -z "$URL" ] && die "$IMG: `echo "$RESP" | jshon -e rsp -e image -e error_msg -u`"

  echo $URL
done

# vim: et ts=2 sw=2

Thank you! What I was looking for 👍

Doesn't work for me. json read error: line 2 column 0: '[' or '{' expected near end of file

http://imgur.com/api/upload.json will explain the status of this script.

Noticed this was updated 8 days ago, so I assume it's still working out of the box? Same API key?

[~/Downloads]$ imgur lol.png
json read error: line 2 column 0: '[' or '{' expected near end of file
lol.png:

So I was curious of the response:

[~]$ KEY=b3625162d3418ac51a9ee805b1840452
[~]$ IMG=/home/jared/lol.png
[~]$ curl -sS -F key=$KEY -H 'Expect: ' -F "image=@$IMG" http://imgur.com/api/upload.json 2>&1

I did notice this is the correct upload API route now: https://api.imgur.com/3/upload.json

The one in the script is a 301.

edit: nevermind, I see even comments trigger the last active date up above. Likely this has long been broken.

Any updated version we could use?

edit: found a working version here go-gl/testutils#5