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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.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Imgur the way a machine reads it — 49 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 59.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 24/100 (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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 59.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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 1

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 API v3

RESTful HTTP/JSON API for Imgur covering images, albums, the public gallery, comments, accounts, tags, topics, meme generation, and notifications.

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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Imgur Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate 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

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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

FINOPS

Features 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

20 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Imgur API Rules

10 rules · 5 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Imgur Account

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Imgur Album

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Imgur Comment

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Imgur Gallery Item

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Imgur Image

27 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Imgur Tag

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Imgur Album Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Imgur Comment Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Imgur Gallery Item Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Imgur Image Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 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.

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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.

Imgur Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Reddit

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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