How to schedule an Imgur post (tech-savvy)

Be warned though, it’s not very user friendly, technical know-how is highly recommended.

You don’t need to know how to code anything, but general knowledge of JavaScript, internet browser developer consoles, or HTTP error messages will definitely help in troubleshooting if anything goes wrong. You can also comment on this article if you are seeing any problems. Though I am not a developer and I make no promises to help you.

1. Go to this website and sign up for a free Postman account. It’s an API platform that you can use to access the Imgur API. In layman’s terms, you need this program to post stuff to Imgur.
2. Download their desktop app.
3. Go to this website.
4. Type in a name like “Imgur scheduler” or whatever.
5. Type in https://www.getpostman.com/oauth2/callback under Authorization callback URL .
6. Type in your email and a description. Press submit. KEEP THIS PAGE OPEN.
7. Open Postman. On the top left, press the Import button.

9. In the Import menu, click Links .

10. Enter https://www.getpostman.com/collections/6bb3f5c68b5f95d55885 as the URL. Press the orange Continue button.

11. On the left side menu, there should now be a new Collection called Post an image to imgur (TEMPLATE). Click it to expand its contents. Click the three dots to the right to duplicate this Collection. If you skip this part it will not work.

12. In the newly duplicated Collection, under the Authorization tab, scroll down until you see Client ID and Client Secret . Copy and paste these values from the website in step 7.

14. Press the orange Get New Access Token button. A pop-up will appear. Log in to your Imgur account.

15. After logging in, copy the refresh_token . You will need this in the next step.

15. Press the Use Token orange button on the top right side of the menu.

16. Go to the Variables tab.

17. Paste the refresh_token from step 15. Copy and paste the same Client ID and Client Secret from step 7.

18. On the top right of the window, press the Save button.

19. Click on POST Image Upload in the left hand drop-down menu.

20. Under the Body tab, this is where you put in the information for your uploaded image. Click Select Files to pick your image file. Type in the title of the image and the description. The title of the image doesn’t really matter since it’ll be overwritten by the title of the post in the next step.

Click the save button to save.

21. In the left hand menu again, click Share with Community (Image)

22. In the Body tab, this is where you add the title and tags of the post. Type in whatever you want for the title of this post. This is probably the most important in getting a viral post. For the tags, do not add an extra comma at the end. Keep it to 5 tags only.

Click the save button to save.

23. Click on the main Post an image to imgur (TEMPLATE) again.

24. On the top right, press the Run button. Something like this should pop up. Once you press this big blue button, it will upload your image to Imgur.

But what about scheduling the post? Unfortunately, Postman doesn’t support scheduling their Collections with image upload. So for this next part, you have to download another piece of software that can schedule mouse clicks and schedule a mouse click on top of this big blue button. Very elegant solution, I know.

There are a ton of results that come up when you search “mouse click scheduler.” I’m sure they are all good and can help you schedule a click.

And that’s it!

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