clip2imgur

clip2imgur

A simple macOS command line tool for uploading your screenshots from clipboard to Imgur

Usage

• Press control+shift+command+3 or control+shift+command+4 to capture and copy a screenshot.

• Run clip2imgur in your terminal, then boom, the image URL is in your clipboard.

• If it is your first time to run clip2imgur, you can choose to authorize this tool, and your image will be posted in your image collection (username.imgur.com/all).

• You also can choose to post anonymously, but it is hard to get the url later and Imgur might delete your posts.

In default setting, the URL of posted image will be copied to your clipboard. You can use flags to configure it.

$ clip2imgur --html
$ clip2imgur -n

short	long	description
-m	--markdown	URL will be copied in the Markdown image format.[](https://i.imgur.com/x.png)
-t	--html	URL will be copied in the HTML image format.<img src="https://i.imgur.com/x.png">
-n	--notcopy	Your image URL will not be copied to your clipboard
-a	--anon	Post the image anonymously

Personally I like to include images in Markdown file using the HTML format, which gives more control of the display. If you forget these flags, you always can run clip2imgur -h to check the usage.

Change Log

• (4/9/2024): Clip2imgur is rewritten in Python.
• (2/15/2018): Clip2imgur is released. This version is written in Swift.

Install

This package is built using cross-platform Swift with Swift Package Manager (SPM), but it currently only supports macOS. There are three ways to install clip2imgur.

Homebrew

Using Homebrew is the recommended and also the easiest way to get clip2imgur installed on your mac. If you don't have Homebrew installed, you can simply run:

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Then, to install clip2imgur:

$ brew tap xiaohk/clip2imgur
$ brew install clip2imgur

PyPI

If you are familiar with Python, you can install clip2imgur with pip.

$ pip install clip2imgur

Built With

The latest version (>=v0.9.1) uses Python.

The first version (v0.9.0) was built with:

• Swift Package Manager
• Rainbow