ImgBB · Example Payload

Upload Image Url

Example of uploading an image to ImgBB by providing a remote image URL. Useful for re-hosting publicly accessible images.

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Upload Image Url is an example object payload from ImgBB, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

summarydescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "summary": "Upload an image from a remote URL",
  "description": "Example of uploading an image to ImgBB by providing a remote image URL. Useful for re-hosting publicly accessible images.",
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://api.imgbb.com/1/upload",
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    },
    "body": {
      "key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
      "image": "https://example.com/photo.jpg",
      "name": "example-photo"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "data": {
        "id": "xZ3kpQR",
        "title": "example-photo",
        "url_viewer": "https://ibb.co/xZ3kpQR",
        "url": "https://i.ibb.co/xZ3kpQR/example-photo.jpg",
        "display_url": "https://i.ibb.co/xZ3kpQR/example-photo.jpg",
        "width": "1280",
        "height": "720",
        "size": "142350",
        "time": "1617900000",
        "expiration": "0",
        "image": {
          "filename": "example-photo.jpg",
          "name": "example-photo",
          "mime": "image/jpeg",
          "extension": "jpg",
          "url": "https://i.ibb.co/xZ3kpQR/example-photo.jpg"
        },
        "thumb": {
          "filename": "example-photo.jpg",
          "name": "example-photo",
          "mime": "image/jpeg",
          "extension": "jpg",
          "url": "https://i.ibb.co/xZ3kpQR/example-photo.jpg"
        },
        "medium": {
          "filename": "example-photo.jpg",
          "name": "example-photo",
          "mime": "image/jpeg",
          "extension": "jpg",
          "url": "https://i.ibb.co/xZ3kpQR/example-photo.jpg"
        },
        "delete_url": "https://ibb.co/delete/xyz789deletetoken"
      },
      "success": true,
      "status": 200
    }
  }
}

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