Imgur
Imgur is a popular image and album hosting platform whose REST API (v3) exposes the full platform — upload, retrieve, vote, comment, gallery, account, tags, topics — over HTTP/JSON. Anonymous reads/writes are supported with a Client-ID; per-user actions use OAuth2 access tokens. Commercial use is routed through RapidAPI's metered tiers.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Imgur the way a machine reads it — 69 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Imgur scores 56.1/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 21/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Imgur
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Imgur. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 10
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Imgur Account API
Account-scoped data: profile, images, albums, favorites, settings, notifications.
Imgur Album API
Album creation, retrieval, and image-management operations.
Imgur Auth API
OAuth2 token issuance and refresh.
Imgur Comment API
Comments on gallery items.
Imgur Gallery API
Public gallery listing, voting, sharing, and reporting.
Imgur Image API
Image upload, retrieval, deletion, favorite, and update operations.
Imgur Memegen API
Meme generation and meme defaults.
Imgur Notification API
User notification retrieval and dismissal.
Imgur Tags API
Tag-based gallery browsing and tagging of gallery items.
Imgur Topic API
Topic listings and topic galleries.
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Open Collections 11
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONImgur Account API
OPEN COLLECTIONImgur Album API
OPEN COLLECTIONImgur Auth API
OPEN COLLECTIONImgur Comment API
OPEN COLLECTIONImgur Gallery API
OPEN COLLECTIONImgur Image API
OPEN COLLECTIONImgur Memegen API
OPEN COLLECTIONImgur Notification API
OPEN COLLECTIONImgur Tags API
OPEN COLLECTIONImgur Topic API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Imgur Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Imgur Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Imgur Finops
FINOPSFeatures 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Image Upload
Anonymous or authenticated upload via binary, base64, or remote URL.
Albums
Group images into ordered, privacy-aware collections.
Public Gallery
Hot / top / user sections with sort and time windows.
Comments & Voting
Threaded comments and up/down voting on gallery items.
Tags & Topics
Folksonomy tagging and editor-curated topic channels.
Meme Generation
Generate memes from default templates.
Notifications
Per-user notification feed for replies, followers, and gallery events.
Rate-Limit Introspection
GET /3/credits returns current client and user quota usage.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Imgur Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Imgur API Rules
SPECTRALImgur API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 7
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Imgur OAuth2 Access Token
JSON SCHEMAImgur Account
JSON SCHEMAImgur Album
JSON SCHEMAImgur Comment
JSON SCHEMAImgur Gallery Item
JSON SCHEMAImgur Image
JSON SCHEMAImgur Tag
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JSON Structure 5
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Imgur Account Structure
JSON STRUCTUREImgur Album Structure
JSON STRUCTUREImgur Comment Structure
JSON STRUCTUREImgur Gallery Item Structure
JSON STRUCTUREImgur Image Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 8
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Imgur Createcomment Example
EXAMPLEImgur Getaccount Example
EXAMPLEImgur Getalbum Example
EXAMPLEImgur Getgallery Example
EXAMPLEImgur Getimage Example
EXAMPLEImgur Uploadimage Example
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 5
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
User-Generated Content Hosting
Apps and forums offload image hosting to Imgur's free Client-ID tier.
Meme & Social Content Pipelines
Bots and Discord/Reddit integrations upload generated images on the fly.
Screenshot Sharing
Desktop tools (ShareX, Greenshot) push screenshots to anonymous Imgur links.
Mobile App Image Pipelines
iOS/Android apps use the iOS/Android SDKs to upload user photos.
Gallery Content Curation
Editors fetch hot/top gallery feeds to surface trending images on third-party sites.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Imgur grew up alongside Reddit; Reddit posts frequently embed Imgur links.
Discord
Many Discord bots use Imgur for ephemeral image storage.
ShareX
Popular Windows screenshot tool uploads directly to Imgur via Client-ID.
RapidAPI
Commercial Imgur API access is routed through RapidAPI's marketplace.
imgurpython, Imgur.API, Hermes
Official and community SDKs cover Python, .NET, Swift, and Go ecosystems.
Solutions 3
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Free Anonymous Tier
Client-ID based, non-commercial use within daily/hourly quotas at $0.
OAuth2 User Tier
Per-user authenticated access for apps acting on behalf of an Imgur user.
RapidAPI Commercial Tiers
Basic / Pro / Ultra / Mega tiers on RapidAPI for commercial use cases.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Imgur — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 7
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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