ImgBB

aid: imgbb
name: ImgBB
description: 'ImgBB is a free image hosting and sharing platform with a REST API for uploading images, retrieving shareable
  links, managing expiration, and accessing image metadata. Supports binary file upload, base64-encoded data, and image URLs
  up to 32 MB. The API returns direct image links, viewer page URLs, thumbnail URLs, and delete URLs in JSON. No registration
  is required to use the basic hosting service, but an API key is required for programmatic uploads via the v1 REST API.

  '
type: Index
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imgbb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Image Hosting
- Image Upload
- File Sharing
- Cloud Storage
- Media
- REST API
apis:
- aid: imgbb:image-upload-api
  name: ImgBB Image Upload API
  description: 'REST API (v1) for uploading images to ImgBB. Accepts binary files, base64-encoded image data, or image URLs
    via POST or GET to https://api.imgbb.com/1/upload. Returns JSON with direct image URL, viewer URL, thumbnail URL, delete
    URL, image dimensions, file size, MIME type, and optional expiration timestamp. Authentication is via an API key passed
    as the key query parameter or form field.

    '
  humanURL: https://api.imgbb.com/
  baseURL: https://api.imgbb.com/1
  tags:
  - Image Upload
  - Image Hosting
  - File Sharing
  - Media
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.imgbb.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api.imgbb.com/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/imgbb-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/upload-request.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/upload-response.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/upload-image-post.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/upload-image-url.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/upload-image-base64.json
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://imgbb.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.imgbb.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://imgbb.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://imgbb.com/page/tos
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://imgbb.com/page/privacy_policy
- type: Plans
  url: plans/imgbb-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/imgbb-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/imgbb-finops.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/imgbb-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/imgbb-jsonld.json
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com