imgur-uploader 0.1.1

A simple command line client for uploading files to Imgur.

A simple command line client for uploading files to Imgur.

Created for my PyCon US 2015 Docker tutorial so that students using my cloud servers can see the gifs they create at the end of exercise 1.

This tool is open source under the MIT License.

Quickstart

Getting Imgur API credentials

Go to https://api.imgur.com/oauth2/addclient and register a new Imgur API client. You will need an Imgur account to do this.

You can put it any valid URL for the callback URL - we won’t be using it.

Installing imgur-uploader

Installing imgur-uploader is easy. It runs on versions of Python >=2.7 or >=3.3.

1. Clone this repository

2. Install the tool with pip install -e .

3. Set the IMGUR_API_ID and IMGUR_API_SECRET environment variables using your client’s credentials

Using imgur-uploader

Upload an image by running imgur-uploader path/to/my.gif

The tool return a shortened link to your uploaded gif upon completion:

Uploading file output.gif
...
File uploaded - see your gif at http://i.imgur.com/6WsQPpw.gif