imageshack uploader

gistfile1.txt

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# upload a local image or an image on the web to imageshack

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

require 'open-uri'
require 'uri'

# upload an image to imageshack and return the imageshack url
# input can be a local image file path or an image url
def imageshack_upload(img)
  img_io = open(img)
  img_name = URI.parse(img).path

  a = WWW::Mechanize.new

  page = a.get('http://imageshack.us/')
  
  upform = WWW::Mechanize::Form.new(page.search("//form[@id='upform']").first)

  upform.checkbox_with(:name => 'rembar').check

  fileupload = upform.file_uploads.first

  fileupload.file_data = img_io
  fileupload.file_name = img_name

  response = a.submit(upform)

  forum1 = response.search(
    "//div[@id='forum1']/table/tr/td[1]/input").first['value']
  forum1.match('\[IMG\](.*)\[/IMG\]')[1]
end

puts imageshack_upload(ARGV[0])