A Python client for the Imgur API. It can be used to interact with the Imgur API in your projects.

You must register your client with the Imgur API, and provide the Client-ID to make any request to the API (see the Authentication note). If you want to perform actions on accounts, the user will have to authorize your application through OAuth2.

• Python >= 2.7
• requests

Our developer documentation can be found here.

The best way to reach out to Imgur for API support is emailing us at [email protected].

pip install imgurpython 

Using imgurpython in your application takes just a couple quick steps.

To use the client from a strictly anonymous context (no actions on behalf of a user)

fromimgurpythonimportImgurClientclient_id='YOUR CLIENT ID'client_secret='YOUR CLIENT SECRET'client=ImgurClient(client_id, client_secret) # Example requestitems=client.gallery() foriteminitems: print(item.link)

To initialize a client that takes actions on behalf of a user

fromimgurpythonimportImgurClientclient_id='YOUR CLIENT ID'client_secret='YOUR CLIENT SECRET'client=ImgurClient(client_id, client_secret) # Authorization flow, pin example (see docs for other auth types)authorization_url=client.get_auth_url('pin') # ... redirect user to `authorization_url`, obtain pin (or code or token) ...credentials=client.authorize('PIN OBTAINED FROM AUTHORIZATION', 'pin') client.set_user_auth(credentials['access_token'], credentials['refresh_token'])

or if you already have an access/refresh token pair you can simply do

fromimgurpythonimportImgurClient# If you already have an access/refresh pair in handclient_id='YOUR CLIENT ID'client_secret='YOUR CLIENT SECRET'access_token='USER ACCESS TOKEN'refresh_token='USER REFRESH TOKEN'# Note since access tokens expire after an hour, only the refresh token is required (library handles autorefresh)client=ImgurClient(client_id, client_secret, access_token, refresh_token)

Error types

• ImgurClientError - General error handler, access message and status code via

fromimgurpython.helpers.errorimportImgurClientErrortry ... exceptImgurClientErroraseprint(e.error_message) print(e.status_code)

• ImgurClientRateLimitError - Rate limit error

To view client and user credit information, use the credits attribute of ImgurClient. credits holds a dictionary with the following keys:

• UserLimit
• UserRemaining
• UserReset
• ClientLimit
• ClientRemaining

For more information about rate-limiting, please see the note in our docs!

Examples can be found here

• get_account(username)
• get_gallery_favorites(username)
• get_account_favorites(username)
• get_account_submissions(username, page=0)
• get_account_settings(username)
• change_account_settings(username, fields)
• get_email_verification_status(username)
• send_verification_email(username)
• get_account_albums(username, page=0)
• get_account_album_ids(username, page=0)
• get_account_album_count(username)
• get_account_comments(username, sort='newest', page=0)
• get_account_comment_ids(username, sort='newest', page=0)
• get_account_comment_count(username)
• get_account_images(username, page=0)
• get_account_image_ids(username, page=0)
• get_account_album_count(username)

• get_album(album_id)
• get_album_images(album_id)
• create_album(fields)
• update_album(album_id, fields)
• album_delete(album_id)
• album_favorite(album_id)
• album_set_images(album_id, ids)
• album_add_images(album_id, ids)
• album_remove_images(album_id, ids)

• get_comment(comment_id)
• delete_comment(comment_id)
• get_comment_replies(comment_id)
• post_comment_reply(comment_id, image_id, comment)
• comment_vote(comment_id, vote='up')
• comment_report(comment_id)

• get_custom_gallery(gallery_id, sort='viral', window='week', page=0)
• get_user_galleries()
• create_custom_gallery(name, tags=None)
• custom_gallery_update(gallery_id, name)
• custom_gallery_add_tags(gallery_id, tags)
• custom_gallery_remove_tags(gallery_id, tags)
• custom_gallery_delete(gallery_id)
• filtered_out_tags()
• block_tag(tag)
• unblock_tag(tag)

• gallery(section='hot', sort='viral', page=0, window='day', show_viral=True)
• memes_subgallery(sort='viral', page=0, window='week')
• memes_subgallery_image(item_id)
• subreddit_gallery(subreddit, sort='time', window='week', page=0)
• subreddit_image(subreddit, image_id)
• gallery_tag(tag, sort='viral', page=0, window='week')
• gallery_tag_image(tag, item_id)
• gallery_item_tags(item_id)
• gallery_tag_vote(item_id, tag, vote)
• gallery_search(q, advanced=None, sort='time', window='all', page=0)
• gallery_random(page=0)
• share_on_imgur(item_id, title, terms=0)
• remove_from_gallery(item_id)
• gallery_item(item_id)
• report_gallery_item(item_id)
• gallery_item_vote(item_id, vote='up')
• gallery_item_comments(item_id, sort='best')
• gallery_comment(item_id, comment)
• gallery_comment_ids(item_id)
• gallery_comment_count(item_id)

• get_image(image_id)
• upload_from_path(path, config=None, anon=True)
• upload_from_url(url, config=None, anon=True)
• delete_image(image_id)
• favorite_image(image_id)

• conversation_list()
• get_conversation(conversation_id, page=1, offset=0)
• create_message(recipient, body)
• delete_conversation(conversation_id)
• report_sender(username)
• block_sender(username)

• get_notifications(new=True)
• get_notification(notification_id)
• mark_notifications_as_read(notification_ids)

• default_memes()