bubblegum

bubblegum is a script to make and manage uploads to image hosts. Several image hosts are supported, to which one can directly upload images or rehost images by URL.

Disclaimer: I wrote this to have some fun with duck typing. You are probably better off using cURL and piping it into jq + whatever else you want!

Usage

Basic image uploading can be done via the bubblegum upload command. To upload a local image file, run bubblegum upload /path/to/image.png. To rehost a URL, run bubblegum upload https://this.url.serves.an/image.png.

The default image host is https://vgy.me. The image host that will be used can be changed with the --host flag in the upload command, e.g. bubblegum upload --host=imgur.com /path/to/image.png. The default image host can also be changed in the config file. Host options can be viewed with the bubblegum upload --help command.

Uploading/rehosting multiple images simultaneously is also supported, via multiple arguments to the upload command. bubblegum upload a.jpg b.png will upload both images simultaneously. By default, 4 workers are spawned for image uploading. The number of workers can be increased or decreased in the config.

A history of uploaded images can be viewed with bubblegum history. The outputted list can be manipulated with the --sort, --limit and --offset options.

Config

The configuration can be edited with the bubblegum config command. A default configuration file is created when the script first runs.

Image Host Profiles

bubblegum includes profiles for the following two hosts by default:

imgur.com (https://imgur.com)
vgy.me (https://vgy.me)

Other image host profiles can be found in the extra_profiles/ directory.

Image host profiles can be created/added to the application by adding a profile dictionary to the list of profiles in your config file. Each profile must contain 8 key/value pairs:

image_host_name - The name of the image host, for use with the --host= option.
image_host_url - The URL of the host's image uploading endpoint.
request_headers - Extra headers to include in the upload request.
upload_form_file_argument - The name of the key for the image file in the form.
upload_form_data_argument - A dictionary sent as the form data in a file upload.
rehost_form_url_argument - If the host supports URL rehosting, the name of the key for the URL in the form. Otherwise, set it to null.
rehost_form_data_argument - A dictionary sent as the form data in a URL rehost.
json_response - A boolean indicating whether or not the returned data is JSON or not. If True, the data response variable will be the deserialized JSON. If False, the data request response variable will be the response text.
image_url_template - A string of an f-string (yeah, sounds confusing) for the image URL. Can access the request response via the data variable.
deletion_url_template - A string of an f-string for the deletion URL. Can access the request response via the data variable.

Imgur

To upload to imgur, a Client ID must be created and supplied. Details on creating a Client ID can be found at https://apidocs.imgur.com/#authorization-and-oauth. Once created, the Client ID can be added to the config, as the imgur_client_id.