Room for yode and MB1965

$username = "";
$password = "";
$clientid = "93d5e807261cc90";
HTTPRequest[<|
"Scheme" -> "https",
"Domain" -> "api.imgur.com",
"Path" -> {"oauth2", "authorize"},
"Username" -> $username,
"Password" -> $password,
"Query" -> {
"client_id" -> $clientid,
"response_type" -> "pin",
"state" -> "application"
}
|>] // Import

Where you fill in your username and password

Without the username or password it wants you to go to a website

Oh wait

One sec

$username = "";
$password = "";
$clientid = "93d5e807261cc90";
HTTPRequest[<|
"Scheme" -> "https",
"Domain" -> "api.imgur.com",
"Path" -> {"oauth2", "authorize"},
"Query" -> {
"client_id" -> $clientid,
"response_type" -> "pin",
"state" -> "application"
}
|>,
<|
"Username" -> $username,
"Password" -> $password
|>] // Import

That's what you want. The parameters are in a second association. The url definition is the first.

yode

12:17 AM

it give me a output like

MB1965

Blech

That means it wants you to log into a website.

Here's another option:

go here: "https://api.imgur.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=93d5e807261cc90&\
response_type=token&state=application"

api.imgur.com/oauth2/…

That's the same without mathematica's formatting

You'll get an API token

And then record that

We'll use that for all your future calls.

yode

I get a address

https://api.imgur.com/oauth2/justtest?state=application#access_token=77b77c681851b9a3cc394e8eb843b195f2b3359c&expires_in=2419200&token_type=bearer&refresh_token=d764edbcfdf88c9772caa63bdf02809b367e465f&account_username=zyd199012&account_id=41276274

MB1965

Great!

Yes that's what we needed

That access_token is the token we'll use for your calls now

yode

Why I get another address when I open that address

It is this now

https://api.imgur.com/oauth2/justtest?state=application#access_token=dc84d1e42e98bd1a84283777064318d2dc5292e4&expires_in=2419200&token_type=bearer&refresh_token=f0a870baf6579b7ff8e92ea48529eccbb2000bd6&account_username=zyd199012&account_id=41276274

MB1965

I think that's the refresh token.

Being activated

We just want the most recent access_token

yode

12:26 AM

Oh,I see now

MB1965

$accesstoken = "dc84d1e42e98bd1a84283777064318d2dc5292e4";
$refreshtoken = "f0a870baf6579b7ff8e92ea48529eccbb2000bd6";
$accountusername = "zyd199012";
$accountid = "41276274";

$fname = FileNameJoin@{$TemporaryDirectory, "img.png"};
$file = Export[$fname, Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2 Pi}], "PNG"];
$req =
HTTPRequest["https://api.imgur.com/3/image",
<|Method -> "Post",
"Headers" -> {
"Authorization" ->
"Bearer " <> $accesstoken,
"Accept" -> "application/json"},
"Body" -> {"image" -> File[$file], "type" -> "file"}|>];

Try that

Oh

Actually the $TemporaryDirectory should work for you too

I got this: {"status" -> 200, "success" -> True,
"data" -> {"vote" -> Null, "bandwidth" -> 0,
"link" -> "http://i.imgur.com/0Uk6yQ8.png", "title" -> Null,
"type" -> "image/png", "id" -> "0Uk6yQ8", "account_id" -> 41276274,
"datetime" -> 1489537598, "account_url" -> Null,
"animated" -> False, "tags" -> {}, "description" -> Null,
"width" -> 360, "deletehash" -> "4ng4AOFOEw9O8X6", "height" -> 214,
"size" -> 9895, "views" -> 0, "favorite" -> False, "name" -> "",
"section" -> Null, "nsfw" -> Null, "is_ad" -> False,

yode

But I get this still

MB1965

Hmm...

Let me read more on the end points

From the docs

That's certainly a functional access token

yode

Thank in advance.I have to say this is a sad thing to me,which trap me very long time.

MB1965

Yeah

That certainly seems like a pain

So there's also this: api.imgur.com/errorhandling#500

Which is odd

As you can access imgur from a web browser, right?

yode

12:32 AM

Yes,it is

And I can upload image from here

MB1965

Okay

Which means the service is functional, overall.

GOod

yode

MB1965

When did you get that 500 error earlier?

I'm trying to figure out if there's just something wrong with imgur...

yode

It's seem this approximately is after 2016/3

MB1965

Hm

Let's see if it will ever work (their docs suggest that a 500 error is an oddity, but I'm not so convinced)

$fname = FileNameJoin@{$TemporaryDirectory, "img.png"};
$file = Export[$fname, Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2 Pi}], "PNG"];
$req =
HTTPRequest["https://api.imgur.com/3/image",
<|
Method -> "Post",
"Headers" -> {
"Authorization" ->
"Bearer " <> $accesstoken,
"Accept" -> "application/json"},
"Body" -> {"image" -> File[$file], "type" -> "file"}
|>];
n = 1;
NestWhile[Import[$req] &,
Import[$req], (n++ < 10 && Lookup[#, "status"] &)]

Oh wait

Forgot to test "status"...

$fname = FileNameJoin@{$TemporaryDirectory, "img.png"};
$file = Export[$fname, Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2 Pi}], "PNG"];
$req =
HTTPRequest["https://api.imgur.com/3/image",
<|
Method -> "Post",
"Headers" -> {
"Authorization" ->
"Bearer " <> $accesstoken,
"Accept" -> "application/json"},
"Body" -> {"image" -> File[$file], "type" -> "file"}
|>];
n = 1;
NestWhile[Import[$req] &,
Import[$req], (n++ < 10 && Lookup[#, "status"] == 500 &)]

Try that one instead

yode

12:45 AM

little confusion,why your variable name start with $?

MB1965

It's a constant

yode

And it give still
{status->500,success->False,data->{error->Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later.}}

MB1965

I tend to do that for permanent constants.

Okay cool.

That means after 10 requests it's still outputting that.

yode

I don't think that "cool".:)

Aha

MB1965

Which I would think suggests there's an API malfunction in your region? Do you get any web search results for the related?

Perhaps "Okay interesting"

Is a better way to put it

yode

12:47 AM

wait a sec,

I'm running my another computer to test

yode

1:04 AM

@MB1965 I'm sorry maybe I will give you the response about test result

MB1965

@yode take however long you need

yode

@MB1965 Maybe a say news,my another old computer can get the normally result

MB1965

Interesting

Do you use Tor?

Because per that page Tor users can't use the API.

yode

What meaning of Tor?

MB1965

Nevermind then

It's a browser that hides your identity online

Very thoroughly.

@yode What are the two computers you're using?

yode

1:13 AM

Do you think this a question can be solved?

MB1965

I bet it can.

I'm just wondering what the differences of the HTTP requests your old vs new computer send are.

yode

I'm not very understand "What are the two computers you're using?"

MB1965

Sorry, you said you have a different computer that it works for?

Is that not what you meant by this: "Maybe a say news,my another old computer can get the normally result"?

yode

This is a laptop which cannot run that code normally,and that old desktop can

MB1965

Okay

I'll see what I can find

So I think the thing to do now is to ask the imgur people, who can apparently be contacted at api@imgur.com

Tell them that 1) you've gone through all the registration / authentication steps

2) you can get the calls to work on your old desktop

3) you can't get the api to work on your laptop

Since you can get it to work on your old desktop it's fixable.

yode

1:30 AM

Think a lot. :)

MB1965

The only thing I can think of now is that maybe there's something funky with the SSL between your new laptop and the imgur API but I find that enormously unlikely

But they'll be able to help you.

yode

I will email them now

MB1965

@yode if you want all the code I was working with you can find it here: wolframcloud.com/objects/…

yode

@MB1965 This is good method to share mathematica code. :)

MB1965

That's what the cloud is for

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