imgur / image-upload API specs

From	John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net>
Newsgroups	comp.infosystems.www.misc, comp.misc
Subject	imgur / image-upload API specs
Date	2023-06-28 03:34 +0000
Organization	Building M
Message-ID	<86mt0kmf9j.fsf@building-m.net> (permalink)

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The recent decision by imgur to delete non-account-associated uploads
got me thinking about WWW resource persistence and self-hosting yet
again. People used imgur because it was convenient and free; uploading
an image and sending a link was a simple process.

Imgur also had an API which applications could integrate with, so for
example flameshot can just upload your screenshots directly to imgur if
desired. Most of these applications just assume you're uploading to
imgur, but if some other server implemented the same HTTP API endpoints,
it would be a drop-in replacement--but I haven't heard of anything like
that!

Is anyone aware of open-source servers which implement an
Imgur-compatible API, or of efforts to define a "standard" set of
endpoints for image uploading and retrieval? Seems like it ought to be
an RFC or something but maybe that's a little out of their scope.

john

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imgur / image-upload API specs John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> - 2023-06-28 03:34 +0000
  Re: imgur / image-upload API specs not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-06-29 09:14 +1000
    Re: imgur / image-upload API specs John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> - 2023-06-29 01:49 +0000
      Re: imgur / image-upload API specs Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-06-29 13:20 +1000
      Re: imgur / image-upload API specs Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netNOSPAM.invalid> - 2023-06-29 08:12 +0000
  Re: imgur / image-upload API specs Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2023-07-03 01:47 +0000

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