Imgur CLI

Wraps the official Imgur v3 API for AI agents. Upload images by file or URL, fetch metadata, delete by delete-hash, and manage albums — all as subcommands that print JSON.

When to use

Trigger this skill when:

• An agent just produced an image (from nano-banana-pro, generate-image, ffmpeg, matplotlib, etc.) and another step needs a public URL.
• A user asks to "host this image", "get a shareable link for this file", or "upload to Imgur".
• You need to persist screenshots or render artifacts as shareable links.
• Archiving URLs into Imgur albums for later retrieval.

Pairs well with: instagram-api (needs hosted URLs), nano-banana-pro, generate-image, Discord/Telegram posting skills.

Install

pip install -e .

Then set either:

• IMGUR_CLIENT_ID — anonymous uploads (get one at https://api.imgur.com/oauth2/addclient)
• IMGUR_ACCESS_TOKEN — OAuth2 bearer token (takes precedence if both are set)

Commands

imgur-cli upload <file-or-url> [--title T] [--description D] [--album HASH]
imgur-cli get <image-hash>
imgur-cli delete <delete-hash-or-id>
imgur-cli album-create [--title T] [--description D] [--privacy public|hidden|secret] [--image ID ...]
imgur-cli album-add <album-hash> --image ID [--image ID ...]

All commands print the Imgur API data object as indented JSON. Errors exit non-zero with the Imgur error payload on stderr.

Examples

# Anonymous upload, grab the shareable link
export IMGUR_CLIENT_ID="<client id>"
imgur-cli upload ./photo.jpg --title "cat pic" | jq -r '.link'

# Upload to user account
export IMGUR_ACCESS_TOKEN="<oauth token>"
imgur-cli upload https://example.com/pic.png --description "from pipeline"

# Save the delete-hash for later cleanup
imgur-cli upload ./tmp.png | jq -r '.deletehash' > .imgur-delete

# Create a private album of existing images
imgur-cli album-create --title "run-042" --privacy hidden --image aBc12 --image xYz34

Notes

• Max image size: 10MB; videos are not supported by this skill (images only).
• Anonymous deletehash is the only way to remove anonymous uploads — store it.
• Respect Imgur rate limits (see your developer dashboard).