It’s been a while since I wrote the last one, but a user on reddit asked how to get OAuth working with Imgur, and I couldn’t resist giving it one more shot. Thanks to my recent experience with the Netflix API, even though it was in C# rather than in Python, I was able to wrangle a quick and easy script for getting started.
Here’s the PasteBin with the complete code, thought it’s shown at the bottom of the page, as usual. Continue reading Imgur API part 3: OAuth2
The following is a quick and dirty way of pulling a lot of URLs out of a given pages source code, using two commands in vim, my new favourite text editor. So, right to the point!
:v/jpg/d
:%s/^.*src="\(http:.\{-}jpg\)".*/\1/g
Try it out right now on the source code of Imgur’s /r/ScarlettJohansson’s page
Continue reading Vim Search and Replace: Grabbing Image URLs from HTML source code
Right off the bat, I want to show you the results of this scraping, to give you a bit of motivation. Anyways, thanks to requests and BeautifulSoup, this is made trivially easy. Enough talking, let’s get down to the code! Don’t forget that as usual I’ll include the full source code at the bottom of the post.
Continue reading How to scrape an ImageBam gallery for images with 30 lines of Python
This is the second installment of my Imgur API: ‘How to entire download Imgur Galleries’. Check out part 1 here in case you missed how to log into the API and upload an image!
I’m actually sort of cheating here, because we don’t actually need to use the API at all here, if we don’t want to. That is because we’re only going to deal with the galleries that are built from the images submitted to reddit. This means after you’re done with this tutorial, you’ll be able to just set the script to a given subreddits name, and grab all the images that have been submitted to /r/aww or /r/wallpapers.
I will be writing another tutorial soon for galleries and albums unrelated to reddit.com as well as grabbing gallery information, such as the title and other descriptive things like that, but that’s less related to the actual downloading of the gallery, which is what we’re interested in today!
Please note that I’m working with Python 2.7 on Windows 7 64-bit, so you might have to modify the code slightly to accommodate for your platform, or OS.
Anyways, hit the jump to get started!
Edit: reddit user: easttntoppedtree caught that it maxes out at 56 images, so you’ll have to add /page/PAGENUMBERHERE.json to the end of the url to get the next 56 images like so: http://imgur.com/r/scarlettjohansson/top/page/1.json’ while keeping in mind that 0 (zero) is a valid page number
Tinypaste link for the full working code, as seen at the bottom of the page
This first part will focus on creating an anonymous API (Application programming interface) key for your script to use, and then upload an image to imgur.com. For this, and any following tutorals, I will be using Windows 7×64, with Python 2.7.
You will need to create an anonymous API key at http://imgur.com/register/api_anon, it’s really simple, just feed the name of your app, so the dudes over at Imgur know what your intentions are, and then your personal information and finally, the reCaptcha, to verify you’re not a bot. The next page will give you your developer API key; this is important. This key will allow you to interact with the Imgur API. Since this is the limited Anonymous API, you will only have access to basic functions, like uploading images from your computer or from another website, and getting gallery and image information. Luckily, that’s enough for our purposes here.
The documentation for the Imgur API that we’ll be using today is found here: http://api.imgur.com/resources_anon, and the requests module documentation is here http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/. Now, open up your favourite text editor for coding. I like using Wing IDE Professional, but I’m sure notepad++ and any other one would work just as nicely. This is where the fun part begins. Hit the jump!
Tinypaste of the full working code!
Continue reading Imgur API part 1: getting an Anonymous Key and uploading an image