Imgur image upload GUI script

[Daniel]

Here is a Yad GUI script for uploading an image from your computer to imgur.com image hosting and generates links needed for easy cut and paste into forum posts etc.



script (requires Yad) name it imgur and put it in PATH /usr/bin/ or /root/my-applications/bin/

#!/bin/bash 

###GUI for imgur script by Bart Nagel <bart@tremby.net>### 
###upload local image to www.imgur.com image hosting service### 
##Stu90### 
# 

  ### root password for user fido ### 
  [ "`whoami`" != "root" ] && exec sudo -A ${0} ${@} 


TEXT=" Select an image to upload to www.imgur.com " 
NAME="Imgur upload" 
VER="0.1" 


GUI1=$(yad --title="$NAME $VER" --text="$TEXT" --form --field="Image:FL" --button="gtk-quit:1" --button="gtk-ok:0") 

BUTTON=$? 

   if [ "$GUI1" = "" ]; then 
   echo "Exiting" && exit 
   fi 

case $BUTTON in 
0) 


GETIMG="`echo $GUI1 | cut -d '|' -f 1`" 
echo "$GETIMG" 

# API Key provided by Alan@imgur.com 
apikey="b3625162d3418ac51a9ee805b1840452" 

# upload the image 
response=$(curl -F "key=$apikey" -H "Expect: " -F "image=@$GETIMG" \ 
        http://imgur.com/api/upload.xml 2>/dev/null) 
# the "Expect: " header is to get around a problem when using this through the 
# Squid proxy. Not sure if it's a Squid bug or what. 
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then 
        echo "Upload failed" >&2 
        exit 2 
elif [ $(echo $response | grep -c "<error_msg>") -gt 0 ]; then 
        echo "Error message from imgur:" >&2 
        echo $response | sed -r 's/.*<error_msg>(.*)<\/error_msg>.*/\1/' >&2 
        exit 3 
fi 

# parse the response and output our stuff 
url=$(echo $response | sed -r 's/.*<original_image>(.*)<\/original_image>.*/\1/') 
deleteurl=$(echo $response | sed -r 's/.*<delete_page>(.*)<\/delete_page>.*/\1/') 
echo $url 
echo "Delete page: $deleteurl" >&2 

##thumb nail image## 
url1="` echo $url |  cut -d "." -f -3 `" 
format="` echo $url |  cut -d "." -f 4- `" 
urlthumb="$url1"l."$format" 


##imge links gui## 
GUI2=$(yad --title="$NAME $VER" --text=" Cut and paste one of the image options from the boxes below " --form \ 
--field="Forum Thumb" "[IMG]$urlthumb[/IMG]" \ 
--field="Forum Full" "[IMG]$url[/IMG]" \ 
--field="Direct URL" "$url" \ 
--field="Delete page" "$deleteurl" \ 
--button="gtk-quit") 

   if [ "$GUI2" = "" ]; then 
   echo "Exiting" && exit 
   fi 

;; 
    
1) 
    echo "Quit selected - Exiting" && exit 
;; 
esac

All credits to stu90 and Bart Nagel.

Daniel Reviewed by Daniel on 16th Jan 2012. Imgur image upload GUI script Here is a Yad GUI script for uploading an image from your computer to imgur.com image hosting and generates links needed for easy cut and paste into forum posts etc. http://i.imgur.com/7iEFKl.png script (requires Yad) name it imgur and put it in PATH /usr/bin/ or /root/my-applications/bin/ #!/bin/bash ###GUI for imgur script by Bart Nagel <bart@tremby.net>### ###upload local image to www.imgur.com image hosting service### Rating: 5