Submit to Imageshack is Broken

[brianking]

In the screenshot window, when I submit to ImageShack I get the following:

You must provide a valid auth token or dev key. see http://code.google.com/p/imageshackapi/

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120320 Firefox/13.0a2 ID:20120320042012

[wsmwk]

I get

Failed to fetch data from remote URL http://paste image url here for request from img528

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120319 Firefox/14.0a1

[whimboo]

Thanks Brian. I get the same failure here. We should fix this in 3.3.

[whimboo]

Even it is broken, I think that this should wait until 3.4. It's more important to get out the compatibility changes to our user base.

[xabolcs]

Hi there!

I investigated a bit into this issue while private messaging with whimboo.

In summary: ImageShack backend will be replaced, because of privacy.
After uploading with dev key, a page logins to the account bounded to the dev key registering e-mail.
A big, shared account (with exposed e-mail) is linked to the dev key, it seems.

By the way alternatives are here!

• imgur.com
• uploadscreenshot.com

Resolving with uploadscreenshot is very simple: just implement in provider.js and use it!
Resolving with imgur is more comlex, because it doesn't redirect to the freshly uploaded picture as Imageshack did.
So in imgur case at least submitScreenshot() should be updated to handle the xml / json response correctly.

IMHO handling the upload response (read: uploading with XHR instead nsIWebNavigation) would be nice. It would have at least one benefit: the delete url could be provided to user.

Some XHR sources are on hacks.mozilla.org.

[xabolcs]

imm.io:

• API - response is available only in JSON
• Limitations:
  • "We limit the number of uploads to 50 per hour and per IP address."
  • "They (the images) will be removed if they have not been viewed in the last 30 days."

[xabolcs]

xabolcs wrote:

By the way alternatives are here!

• imgur.com
• uploadscreenshot.com

Not sure about proposing imgur.com as an alternative backend due the authenticating changes in their API version 3.
I filed issue #114 for a follow-up!

[xabolcs]

xabolcs wrote:

By the way alternatives are here!

• imgur.com
• uploadscreenshot.com

uploadscreenshot.com is down for months.

Seeking for more backends.

[xabolcs]

Will check them soon:

• postimage.org
• bayimg.com
• tinypic.com

[whimboo]

So what would be a good first replacement? Is there a page somewhere with reviews about different services? Would be good if we could replace imageshack at least with another one. Later we could add the multiple screenshot provider option if wanted.

[xabolcs]

I googled for image hosting, and searched on Wikipedia for the same.

Postimage.org is my first replacement.
I also implemented a provider for bayimg.com (but not selected) in commit 6ee94aa.
If you want to try bayimg, you should add it first to the array.

[xabolcs]

FYI.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ImageShack Team noreply@imageshack.us

Date: 2014-01-30
Subject: What does the new ImageShack mean for developers?

http://imageshack.com Account Information

Dear valued developer,

Over the recent months we have made many changes and improvements to
ImageShack. We have made the site faster and much more user friendly. We
have also decided to move away from displaying ads on our pages. In return,
we now ask our customers for a very small fee to use our service. This
change will also affect our API users starting Martch 1st. Specifically,
uploads of new images into free accounts will be disabled. If you have an
app that uses ImageShack's upload API, you need to make sure your developer
key is associated with a business account https://imageshack.com/business.

To see your account status simply login and go to subscription
settingshttps://imageshack.com/my/settings/subscription.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact
ushttps://imageshack.com/contact/customer_service?option=feedback.

The ImageShack Team

Let's finalize it!

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[whimboo]

Thanks @xabolcs. So as I read it will not change any API, right? We might have to indicate on our site that you will need a proper account starting from March 1st.

Right now I'm not sure which image sites we support, so we might have to find another one before March 1st and include it into the next version of NTT.

[whimboo]

This feature is gone with the rewrite of the extension, also because Firefox has it included natively now.