{"id":8699,"date":"2012-12-10T18:25:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T00:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8699"},"modified":"2013-12-16T20:22:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T02:22:53","slug":"the-imgur-api-general-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8699","title":{"rendered":"The Imgur API &#8211; General Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Imgur&#8217;s API exposes the entire Imgur infrastructure via a standardized programmatic interface. Using Imgur&#8217;s API, you can do just about anything you can do on imgur.com, while using your programming language of choice.<\/p>\n<p>The Imgur API is a RESTful API <strong>based on HTTP requests and XML or JSON responses<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re familiar with the APIs of Twitter, Amazon&#8217;s S3, del.icio.us, or a host of other web services, you&#8217;ll feel right at home.<\/p>\n<p>This version of the API, version 3, uses OAuth 2.0. This means that all requests will need to be encrypted and sent via SSL\/TSL to https:\/\/. It also means that you need to <a href=\"http:\/\/api.imgur.com\/oauth2\/addclient\">register<\/a> your application, even if you aren&#8217;t allowing users to login.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/api.imgur.com\/\">The Imgur API &#8211; General Information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imgur&#8217;s API exposes the entire Imgur infrastructure via a standardized programmatic interface. Using Imgur&#8217;s API, you can do just about anything you can do on imgur.com, while using your programming language of choice. The Imgur API is a RESTful API &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8699\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[173,1005,312],"class_list":["post-8699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-api","tag-imgur","tag-ssltls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11973,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions\/11973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}