upload the image file specified by the commandline argument, then save the image's url in the clip board (windows only)

imgur.py

# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import json
import sys
import urllib
import base64
import os

def addToClipBoard(text):
    command = 'echo ' + text.strip() + '| clip'
    os.system(command)

def upload(fn):
    print 'Opening image file %s' % fn
    f = open(fn, 'rb')
    para = {
        'key': "77c69b52f7992b9996a2cf963eee4651",
        'type': "base64",
        'image': base64.b64encode(f.read()),
        }
    data = urllib.urlencode(para)
    req = urllib.urlopen(url, data)
    
    resp = json.loads(req.read())
    link = resp['upload']['links']['original']
    print link
    addToClipBoard(link)

url = "http://api.imgur.com/2/upload.json"
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print 'Usage: {0} filename'.format(sys.argv[0])
else:    
    fn = sys.argv[1]
    upload(fn)