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Imgbb Image Uploader
April 27, 2023
Usage
- Create account on imgbb website.
- Go to the imgbb API page and create a new API key.
- Install imgbb-image-uploader using npm:
npm install imgbb-image-uploader
- Here's an example of how to use imgbb-image-uploader:
import { imgbbUpload } from "imgbb-image-uploader";
imgbbUpload({
key: "your-api-key", // your imgbb api key
image: image, // image selected from the file input
})
.then((data) => {
console.log("Image uploaded to ImgBB:", data);
})
.catch((error) => {
console.error("Failed to upload image to ImgBB:", error);
});
- You can also specify additional options when uploading an image, such as the image name and expiration time:
import imgbbUpload from "imgbb-image-uploader";
// Upload an image to ImgBB with additional options
imgbbUpload({
key: "your-api-key", // your imgbb api key
image: image, // image selected from the file input
expiration: 600, // 10 mins
name: "name-of-the-image", // name of the image
})
.then((data) => {
console.log("Image uploaded to ImgBB:", data);
})
.catch((error) => {
console.error("Failed to upload image to ImgBB:", error);
});
Parameters
key
: The ImgBB API key to use for authentication.image
: The image selected from the file input.name
(optional): The name of the image file. If not provided, the name will be automatically detected when uploading a file with multipart/form-data.expiration
(optional): The expiration time for the uploaded image, in seconds. The uploaded image will be automatically deleted after this time.
Returns
This responses display all the image uploaded information in JSON format.
JSON the response will have headers status codes to allow you to easily notice if the request was OK or not. It will also output the status properties
{
"data": {
"id": "2ndCYJK",
"title": "c1f64245afb2",
"url_viewer": "https://ibb.co/2ndCYJK",
"url": "https://i.ibb.co/w04Prt6/c1f64245afb2.gif",
"display_url": "https://i.ibb.co/98W13PY/c1f64245afb2.gif",
"width": "1",
"height": "1",
"size": "42",
"time": "1552042565",
"expiration": "0",
"image": {
"filename": "c1f64245afb2.gif",
"name": "c1f64245afb2",
"mime": "image/gif",
"extension": "gif",
"url": "https://i.ibb.co/w04Prt6/c1f64245afb2.gif"
},
"thumb": {
"filename": "c1f64245afb2.gif",
"name": "c1f64245afb2",
"mime": "image/gif",
"extension": "gif",
"url": "https://i.ibb.co/2ndCYJK/c1f64245afb2.gif"
},
"medium": {
"filename": "c1f64245afb2.gif",
"name": "c1f64245afb2",
"mime": "image/gif",
"extension": "gif",
"url": "https://i.ibb.co/98W13PY/c1f64245afb2.gif"
},
"delete_url": "https://ibb.co/2ndCYJK/670a7e48ddcb85ac340c717a41047e5c"
},
"success": true,
"status": 200
}
License
This library is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/sahilverma-dev/imgbb-image-uploader.