ImgurAPI perl library

ImgurAPI::Client is a perl5 client library for interfacing with Imgur's API endpoints.

Installation

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/selftaught/ImgurAPI.git
2. Cd into the repo root and generate a makefile: perl Makefile.pl
3. Make it: make && make test && make install

Usage

Instantiating the client

my $client = ImgurAPI::Client->new( \%optional );

Valid options are:

note that all are optional but the library will throw if its needed and not defined

• client_id
• client_secret
• access_key
• rapidapi_key
  • commercial rapidapi / mashape api key (commercial use)
• format_type
  • api endpoint response format type
  • valid values are json (default) and xml
• oauth_cb_state
  • parameter appended to oauth2 authorization url returned from oauth2_authorize_url() which may be useful to your application upon receipt of the response.

Authorization

If you haven't already, register an application for an OAuth2 client ID and secret here.

You will need to authorize your OAuth2 application if you haven't already done so. You can get the authorization URL with oauth2_authorize_url:

my $auth_url = $client->oauth2_authorize_url();

# return to user's browser for manual authorization

Once the application has been authorized, the access token, refresh token and expires_in values will be passed to the callback endpoint URL that was specified during application registration. The callback endpoint should collect the values and store them somewhere your client calling code on the backend can pull the access token from and then pass it to the client.

my $access_token = get_access_token_from_some_db();

$client->set_access_token($access_token);

The client library doesn't handle refreshing the access token for you automatically. It is left up to the calling code to refresh the access token when it expires. This is so you can keep the refresh token updated in the database you stored it in initially. The client library is unaware of the database so we leave it up to you to manage.

Requests

Imgur API endpoint subroutines

Account

• account($username) - get information about an account
  • $username - string - imgur account username
• account_album($username, $album_id) - get information about an account album
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • $album_id - int|string - album id
• account_album_count($username) - get the count of account albums
  • $username - string - imgur account username
• account_album_delete($username, $album_id) - delete an account album
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • $album_id - int|string - album id
• account_album_ids($username, \%optional) - get a list of account album ids
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional parameters
    • page - int|str - page number
• account_albums($username, \%optional) - list account albums
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional parameters
    • page - int|str - page number
• account_block_create($username) - block a user
  • $username - string - imgur account username to block
• account_block_status($username) - determine if the user making the request has blocked a username
  • $username - string - imgur account username to check if is blocked
• account_blocks() - list all accounts being blocked by the requesting account
• account_comment($username, $comment_id) - get information about a comment
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • $comment_id - string - comment id
• account_comment_count($username)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
• account_comment_delete($username, $comment_id)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • $comment_id - string - comment id
• account_comment_ids($username, \%optional)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional parameters
    • page - int|string - page number
    • sort - string - best, worst, oldest or newest (default)
• account_comments($username, \%optional)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional parameters
    • page - int|string - page number
    • sort - string - best, worst, oldest or newest (default)
• account_delete($password, \%optional)
  • $password - string - imgur account password
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional params
    • reasons - arrayref of strings - reasons for deleting account
    • feedback - string - feedback for imgur
• account_favorites($username, \%optional)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional params
    • page - int|string - page number (default: 0)
    • sort - string - oldest or newest (default)
• account_tag_follow($tag_name)
  • $tag_name - string - tag to follow
• account_tag_unfollow($tag_name)
  • $tag_name - string - tag to unfollow
• account_gallery_favorites($username, \%optional)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional params
    • page - int|string - page number (default: 0)
    • sort - string - oldest or newest (default)
• account_image($username, $image_id) - get info about an image
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • $image_id - string - image id to get information about
• account_image_count($username)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
• account_image_delete($username, $image_id) - delete an image
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • $image_id - string - image id to delete
• account_image_ids($username, \%optional)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional params
    • page - int|string - page number (default: 0)
• account_images($username, \%optional)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional params
    • page - int|string - page number (default: 0)
• account_reply_notifications($username, new)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional params
    • new - int|boolean - 1 for unviewed notification and 0 for viewed (default: 1)
• account_settings($username)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
• account_settings_update($username, \%settings)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%settings - hashref - hashref of settings to update
    • bio - string - biography displayed on the account
    • public_images - int|boolean - set images to private or public by default
    • messaging_enabled - int|boolean - enable / disable private messages
    • accepted_gallery_terms - int|boolean - user agreement to imgur gallery terms
    • username - string - valid username between 4 and 63 alphanumeric characters
    • show_mature - int|boolean - toggle display of mature content
    • newsletter_subscribed - int|boolean - toggle subscription to email newsletter
• account_submissions($username, \%optional)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
  • \%optional - hashref - hashref of optional params
    • page - int|string - page number (default: 0)
• account_verify_email_send($username)
  • $username - string - imgur account username
• account_verify_email_status($username)
  • $username - string - imgur account username

Album

• album($album_id)
  • $album_id - string
• album_images($album_id)
  • $album_id - string
• album_create(\%options)
  • \%options
    • ids - arrayref
    • deletehashes - arrayref
    • title - string
    • description - string
    • cover - string
• album_update($album_id, \%options)
  • $album_id - string
  • \%options
    • ids - arrayref
    • deletehashes - arrayref
    • title - string
    • description - string
    • cover - string
• album_delete($album_id)
  • $album_id - string
• album_favorite($album_id)
  • $album_id - string
• album_images_set($album_id, \@ids)
  • $album_id - string
  • \@ids - arrayref
• album_images_add($album_id, \@ids)
  • $album_id - string
  • \@ids - arrayref
• album_images_delete($album_id, \@ids)
  • $album_id - string
  • \@ids - arrayref

Comment

• comment($comment_id) - get comment info
  • $comment_id - string
• comment_delete($comment_id)
  • $comment_id - string
• comment_replies($comment_id)
  • $comment_id - string
• comment_reply($comment_id, $image_id, $comment)
  • $comment_id - string
• comment_vote($comment_id, $vote)
  • $comment_id - string
  • $vote - string - can be 'up', 'down' or 'veto'
• comment_report($comment_id)
  • $comment_id - string

Gallery

• gallery(\%optional)
  • optional:
    • section - hot (default), top, user
    • sort - viral (default), top, time, rising
    • page - page number
    • window - day (default), week, month, year, all
    • show_viral - 0 or 1 (default)
    • album_preview - 0 or 1 (default)
• gallery_album($album_id)
• gallery_image($image_id)
• gallery_image_remove($image_id)
• gallery_item($id)
• gallery_item_comment($id, $comment)
• gallery_item_comment_info($id, $comment_id)
• gallery_item_comments($id, \%optional)
  • optional:
    • sort - one of: best (default), top, or new
• gallery_item_report($id, \%optional)
  • optional:
    • reason - integer value reason for report. values:
      • 1 - doesn't belong on imgur
      • 2 - spam
      • 3 - abusive
      • 4 - mature content not marked as mature
      • 5 - pornography
• gallery_item_tags_update($id, \@tags)
• gallery_item_vote($id, $vote)
  • vote - up, down, or veto
• gallery_item_votes($id)
• gallery_item_tags($id)
• gallery_search($query, \%optional, \%advanced)
  • optional:
    • sort - viral, top, time (default), rising
    • page - page number (default: 0)
    • window - day, week, month, year, all (default)
  • advanced (note: if advanced search parameters are set, query string is ignored):
    • q_all - search for all of these words (and)
    • q_any - search for any of these words (or)
    • q_exactly - search for exactly this word or phrase
    • q_not - exclude results matching this
    • q_type - show results for file type (jpg, png, gif, anigif, album)
    • q_size_pix - size ranges, small (500 pixels square or less) | med (500 to 2,000 pixels square) | big (2,000 to 5,000 pixels square) | lrg (5,000 to 10,000 pixels square) | huge (10,000 square pixels and above)
• gallery_share_image($id, $title, \%optional)
  • optional:
    • topic - topic name
    • terms - if the user has not accepted the terms yet, this endpoint will return an error. pass 1 to by-pass
    • mature - set to 1 if the post is mature
    • tags - The name of the tags you wish to associate with a post. Can be passed as an array or csv string
• gallery_share_album($id, $title, \%optional)
  • optional:
    • topic - topic name
    • terms - if the user has not accepted the terms yet, this endpoint will return an error. pass 1 to by-pass
    • mature - set to 1 if the post is mature
    • tags - The name of the tags you wish to associate with a post. Can be passed as an array or csv string
• gallery_subreddit($subreddit, \%optional)
  • optional:
    • sort - viral (default), top, time, rising
    • page - page number (default: 0)
    • window - day, week (default), month, year, all
• gallery_subreddit_image($subreddit, $image_id)
• gallery_tag($tag, \%optional)
  • optional:
    • sort - viral (default), top, time, rising
    • page - page number (default: 0)
    • window - day, week (default), month, year, all
• gallery_tag_info($tag)
• gallery_tags()

Image

• image($image_id)
• image_upload($src, \%optional)
  • src image or video source - can be one of type: file, url, base64 or raw string
  • type image or video source type - can be one of: file, url, base64 or raw string
  • optional optional data can include
    • title - title of the content
    • description - description of the content
• image_delete($image_id)
• image_favorite($image_id)
• image_update($image_id, \%optional)
  • optional:
    • title - content title
    • description - content description

Feed

• feed()

Client member sub-routines

Getters

• response()
• response_content()
• access_token()
• ratelimit_headers()
  • returns rate limit key value pairs from imgur api response:
    • userlimit
    • userremaining
    • userreset
    • clientlimit
    • clientremaining

Setters

• set_state(state)
• set_access_token(access_token)
• set_refresh_token(refresh_token)
• set_expiration_datetime(datetime)
• set_no_auth()