Insert pictures in a topic of this Forum

[cvp]

I've seen some topics in this forum where pictures are inserted. How can we do that?

[omz]

An easy way is to upload it to Dropbox, generate a share link, and change the URL, so that dl=1 is at the end (the default link will usually end with dl=0, which means that it can't be embedded directly. There are a lot of other image hosting services of course.

Then just use this (Markdown) syntax to embed the image in your post:

![title](image_url)

[Webmaster4o]

After installing pyimgur, I use the following script:

import pyimgur,photos,clipboard,os,console
i=photos.pick_image()
format = 'gif' if (i.format == 'GIF') else 'jpg'
i.save('img.'+format)
clipboard.set(pyimgur.Imgur("303d632d723a549").upload_image('img.'+format, title="Uploaded-Image").link)
console.hud_alert("link copied!")
os.remove('img.'+format)

[cvp]

Thanks to both of you.
I understand that the picture is still linked by an URL, thus the picture file needs to remain on the server (fi Dropbox).

[dgelessus]

I like to use imgur.com too, it allows anonymous image uploading (without an account) and you can also get a deletion link in case you want to delete the image later.

[Webmaster4o]

@dgelessus That's what my script does, it automated the anonymous uploading and copies a URL. I may try to rewrite it with requests to make it easier to distribute.

[cvp]

Good to know, thanks a lot