""" Upload an image to imgur and get a link to the image. """
from __future__ import print_function, division, absolute_import
# Imgur RMS client ID
CLIENT_ID = "ca85d1ed0b3fa85"
import base64
import json
try:
import urllib.request as urllib2
import urllib.parse as urllib
except ImportError:
import urllib2
import urllib
def imgurUpload(file_path, image_data=None):
""" Upload the given image to Imgur.
Arguments:
file_path: [str] Path to the image file.
Keyword arguments:
image_data: [bytes] Read in image in JPG, PNG, etc. format.
Return:
img_url: [str] URL to the uploaded image.
"""
# Read the image if image data was not given
if image_data is None:
# Open the image in binary mode
f = open(file_path, "rb")
image_data = f.read()
# Encode the image
b64_image = base64.standard_b64encode(image_data)
# Upload the image
headers = {'Authorization': 'Client-ID ' + CLIENT_ID}
data = {'image': b64_image, 'title': 'test'} # create a dictionary.
request = urllib2.Request(url="https://api.imgur.com/3/upload.json",
data=urllib.urlencode(data).encode("utf-8"), headers=headers)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
# Get URL to image
parse = json.loads(response)
img_url = parse['data']['link']
return img_url
if __name__ == "__main__":
print(imgurUpload("/home/dvida/Desktop/FF_BR0001_20190204_234235_646_0000256.fits_maxpixel.jpg"))
