Like most of the code I write these days in my spare time, It’s usually for a little bit of fun! This time, I just wanted to get a random bunch of images from Imgurl.com to collect some “memes”. I’ll warn you now, the internet is not a nice place. People upload all sorts of random stuff to Imgurl. Be warned!
Let’s get technical!
Firstly, I decided to use Python 3 on an EC2 micro (AWS virtual server). Secondly, it was written in about 10 minutes. I’m sharing it for future use (if anyone dares find a legitimate reason for using it). Plus I just wanted a reason to embed GitHub’s Gist into my blog!
I use a random string generator function (id_generator) to create a new ID for the
I added a try/catch to deal with Keyboard Interrupts. You can press CTRL+C and the while loop will exit gracefully (well as gracefully as it can).
Code:
This will output the image IDs which are valid in the console, along with the image size and format. You can then, of course, use the ID as you wish (open them in a browser or embed in HTML etc).
That’s as far as I got, before I realised it was a terrible project and moved onto something else…