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• Imgur now seems to support two additional video formats (video/mp4 & video/quicktime).

  • Previously, video/mp4 was supported but only when uploaded using the https://imgur.com website.

• Images are no longer limited to 1MB, instead there is now a 20MB maximum.

  • GIFs no longer follow the image size restriction, and instead use the video size restriction.
  • PNGs over 5MB are converted to JPEG (why?).

• Videos are no longer limited to 30 seconds, instead there is now a 60 second limit.

Note that the current API docs still state:

image - A binary file, base64 data, or a URL for an image. (up to 10MB)
video - A binary file (up to 200MB)

There are a number of errors the API can return that could be avoided by local sanity checks before attempting to upload:

• File size. Images (including animated ones) are limited to 10MB. Videos are limited to 200MB.
• MIME type.
  • Image: image/jpeg, image/gif, image/apng, image/tiff & image/png.
  • Video: video/mp4, video/webm, video/x-matroska, video/quicktime, video/x-flv, video/x-msvideo, video/x-ms-wmv & video/mpeg.
• Video length. Videos are limited to 60 seconds in length, regardless of their file size. Use ffprobe if available.

It shouldn't be too difficult to parse error messages through RegEx, and since this is all that jq is used for it may be worth trying to drop it. Shell script dependencies aren't fun on a lot of operating systems.

The process will hang for roughly a minute, before printing a failed to upload message with no reason.

$ grumi video.webm
Error uploading video.webm ()
No images uploaded.

According to the API docs, images can be uploaded via a URL rather than a local file (this doesn't apply to videos).