# Imgur

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/imgur/  
**Website:** https://imgur.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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.

## Kin Score — 52.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 65.8 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 18.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (10)

- **Imgur Account API** — Account-scoped data: profile, images, albums, favorites, settings, notifications.
- **Imgur Album API** — Album creation, retrieval, and image-management operations.
- **Imgur Auth API** — OAuth2 token issuance and refresh.
- **Imgur Comment API** — Comments on gallery items.
- **Imgur Gallery API** — Public gallery listing, voting, sharing, and reporting.
- **Imgur Image API** — Image upload, retrieval, deletion, favorite, and update operations.
- **Imgur Memegen API** — Meme generation and meme defaults.
- **Imgur Notification API** — User notification retrieval and dismissal.
- **Imgur Tags API** — Tag-based gallery browsing and tagging of gallery items.
- **Imgur Topic API** — Topic listings and topic galleries.

## Security (1)

- **Imgur Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Imgur Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **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.

## Tags

Photography, Image, Image Hosting, Albums, Gallery, Social, Memes, Content Sharing, Public APIs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/imgur/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.