imgur.py

#!/usr/bin/python

from poster.encode import multipart_encode
from poster.streaminghttp import register_openers
import urllib2
import simplejson
import sys

try:
    input_file = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
except IndexError:
    input_file = sys.stdin

API_KEY = "your_imgur_apikey_here"
API_URL = 'http://api.imgur.com/2/upload.json'

register_openers()

datagen, headers = multipart_encode(dict(image=input_file, key=API_KEY))
request = urllib2.Request(API_URL, datagen, headers)

try:
    result = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
    sys.stderr.write("Error uploading image: %s\n" % e.msg)
    sys.exit(e.code)

result = simplejson.loads(result)
links = result['upload']['links']

print "Original:", links['original']
print "Page:", links['imgur_page']
print "Delete:", links['delete_page']
print "Small:", links['small_square']
print "Large:", links['large_thumbnail']