Imgur has blocked the UK
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Should slink not automatically convert heic to jpg?Rebuilt slink using traefic instead of nginx, seems to work using the shortcut now.edit no it’s not!
Edit again, trying from Mac rather than iPhone:
Also, that's just the image identifier. Surely it needs the full address url.
Allegedly this shortcut does that:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/83ce7ed3e670499586b6e4cd38d5d81b
It was posted in this thread.
Edit
I think the shortcut needs fixing, it actually does convert but for some reason it gives you a heic link despite the image being in Slink as a jpg.
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What should we use now then? I come across https://imgbox.com/ but that’s about it.
Paid for the ImgBB uploader app on iOS too then seen your post! Was only a quid mind.
Where the dickens is the sauce?Self hosting for the win! I remembered I bought a domain for exactly that purpose a few years ago.
I made thicktok, discord and x accounts just to enter one of their competitions and won diddly squat as expected, I haven't used the accounts since and won't use them again unless there's another competition.
I don't have an imgur account but have probably used it thousands of times on sites like this that had embedded photos from the site and therein lies the problem.
Even if Imgur capitulated and forced people to somehow verify their age to upload images would it be enough to appease GDPR and OSA?
In theory they could then prove everyone uploading was over 13 but it would still be impossible to say how old people viewing the images embedded into other sites were so any other similar hosting sites might eventually get blocked as well.
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Good question.what is your bandwidth cap?
I have 100Gb of storage, I've used just under 10Gb so far (multiple web sites, big blog site) and this is my bandwidth for the month so far for everything on the hosting. In September I used just under 30GB bandwidth.
Just testing out API upload to slink, took me far too long to figure out.
Next step, scrape some forum posts, grab the image from imgur, then convert to a slink url I can paste in.
Edit for anyone else as sad as me on a Friday night, get your API key in the UI, then do something like:
Code:
TOKEN="your token goes here"
curl -X POST "https://myslinkhost.com/api/external/upload" \
-H "Origin: https://myslinkhost.com" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
-F "image=@/<path to image>"
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Weird, it works perfectly ok for me.
Is the Slink Origin variable set correctly and the same as the shortcut URL? I had issues when that was not the case.
You mean in the compose file? Yeah, that's all good. API upload is working fine, it's just a case of the shortcut not giving the right URL for some photos.
Example, it put this into my clipboard after an upload (img tags removed):
But if I look in the Slink web UI at history I see the image, but the URL is:
That is quite odd. I've just used the icloud share link to set up the shortcut again and uploaded a photo I took which is definitely in HEIC format, and it copied the jpg link straight away.
I can assume that, for whatever reason, the shortcut 'convert to jpg' isn't working. Then you're uploading a HEIC file and grabbing the link before Slink has automatically converted it to jpg.
Actually, upon writing that, I have gone back to the shortcut and figured it out. The API call was set to upload the image from the shortcut input, and not the converted image, which is a separate file from the original after being converted, of course.
Updated link, that should now work
Nice one mate. Now to figure out a resize option.
Great success! You can append
?width=1000&height=750 for example to the end of the image link to resize. Would be easy enough to add that into the shortcut.
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So which sites can I use right-click and upload straight from the context menu in my browser?
I guess anything that has a browser extension that supports that feature. It's not something that image hosts natively have.
I have written a shortcut that can run across all my Apple devices that uploads images to my GitHub repo. My website is hosted on AWS Amplify so it auto monitors the repo for changes and rebuilds whenever an image is added. I need to hide sensitive information then I can share this. It's far better than paying rip off prices for apps like Working Copy.