If you own a server (even an home server) you can host your own PictShare instance so you have full control over your content and can delete images hasslefree.

If you're an app developer or sysadmin you can use it for a centralized image hosting. With the simple upload API you can upload images to your PictShare instance and get a nice short URL

If you're a blogger like myself, you can use it as storage for your images so the images will still work even if you change blog providers or servers

Features

Uploads without logins or validation (that's a good thing, right?)
Simple API to upload any image from remote servers to your instance via URL and via Base64
100% file based - no database needed
PictShare removes all exif data so you can upload photos from your phone and all GPS tags and camera model info get wiped
Smart resize, filter and rotation features
Duplicates don't take up space. If the exact same images is uploaded twice, the second upload will link to the first
You can control who can upload images or use filters/resizes by defining an upload-code
You can set a code in your /inc/config.inc.php (MASTER_DELETE_CODE) that, if appended to any URL of an Image, will delete the image and all cached versions of it from the server

Smart query system

PictShare images can be changed after upload just by modifying the URL. It works like this:

https://base.domain/<options>/<image>

For example: https://pictshare.net/100x100/negative/b260e36b60.jpg will show you the uploaded Image b260e36b60.jpg but resize it to 100x100 pixels and apply the "negative" filter. The original image will stay untouched.

Available options

Original URL: https://www.pictshare.net/b260e36b60.jpg

Note: If an option needs a value it works like this: optionname_value. Eg: pixelate_10 If there is some option that's not recognized by PictShare it's simply ignored, so this will work: https://www.pictshare.net/pictshare-is-awesome/b260e36b60.jpg and also even this will work: https://www.pictshare.net/b260e36b60.jpg/how-can-this-still/work/

 Option    |      Paramter      |      Example URL       |      Result

You can also combine as many options as you want. Even multiple times! Want your image to be negative, resized, grayscale , with increased brightness and negate it again? No problem: https://pictshare.net/500x500/grayscale/negative/brightness_100/negative/b260e36b60.jpg

How does the external-upload-API work?

Upload from external URL

PictShare has a simple REST API to upload remote pictures. The API can be accessed via the backend.php file like this:

https://pictshare.net/backend.php?getimage=<URL of the image you want to upload>.

Example:

Request: https://pictshare.net/backend.php?getimage=https://www.0xf.at/css/imgs/logo.png

The server will answer with the file name and the server path in JSON:

{"status":"OK","type":"png","hash":"10ba188162.png","url":"https:\/\/pictshare.net\/10ba188162.png"}

Upload via POST

Send a POST request to https://pictshare.net/backend.php and send the image in the variable postimage.

Server will return JSON of uploaded data like this:

{"status":"OK","type":"png","hash":"2f18a052c4.png","url":"https:\/\/pictshare.net\/2f18a052c4.png","domain":"https:\/\/pictshare.net\/"}

Upload from base64 string

Just send a POST request to https://pictshare.net/backend.php and send your image in base64 as the variable name base64

Server will automatically try to guess the file type (which should work in 90% of the cases) and if it can't figure it out it'll just upload it as png.

Restriction settings

In your config.inc.php there are two values to be set: UPLOAD_CODE and IMAGE_CHANGE_CODE

Both can be set to strings or multiple strings semi;colon;separated. If there is a semicolon in the string, any of the elements will work

UPLOAD_CODE

If set, will show users a code field in the upload form. If it doesn't match your setting, files won't be uploaded.

If enabled, the Upload API will need the variable upload_code via GET (eg: https://pictshare.net/backend.php?getimage=https://www.0xf.at/css/imgs/logo.png&upload_code=YourUploadCodeHere)

IMAGE_CHANGE_CODE

If set,the options will only work if the URL got the code in it. You can provide the code as option changecode_YourChangeCode

For example: If enabled the image https://www.pictshare.net/negative/b260e36b60.jpg won't show the negative version but the original. If you access the image with the code like this: https://www.pictshare.net/changecode_YourChangeCode/b260e36b60.jpg it gets cached on the server so the next time someone requests the link without providing the change-code, they'll see the inverted image (because you just created it before by accessing the image with the code)

Security and privacy

By hosting your own images you can delete them any time you want
You can enable or disable upload logging. Don't want to know who uploaded stuff? Just change the setting in inc/config.inc.php
No exif data is stored on the server, all jpegs get cleaned on upload
You have full control over your data. PictShare doesn't need remote libaries or tracking crap

Requirements

Apache or Nginx Webserver with PHP
PHP 5 GD library
A domain or sub-domain since PictShare can't be run from a subfolder of some other domain

Installation

Make sure you have PHP5 GD libraries installed: apt-get install php5-gd
Unpack the PictShare zip
Rename /inc/example.config.inc.php to /inc/config.inc.php
(optional) You can and should put a nginx proxy before the Apache server. That thing is just insanely fast with static content like images.
(optional) To secure your traffic I'd highly recommend getting an SSL Cert for your server if you don't already have one.

On nginx

This is a simple config file that should make PictShare work on nginx

Install php fpm: apt-get install php5-fpm
Install php Graphics libraries: apt-get install php5-gd

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        server_name your.awesome.domain.name;

        root /var/www/pictshare; # or where ever you put it
        index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?url=$request_uri; # instead of htaccess mod_rewrite
    }

    location ~ \.php {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
    }

    location ~ /(upload|tmp) {
       deny all;
       return 404;
    }

}

Upgrading

Just re-download the PictShare zip file and extract and overwrite existing pictshare files. Uploads and config won't be affected.
Check if your /inc/config.inc.php file has all settings required by the /inc/example.config.inc.php since new options might get added in new versions

Or use these commands:

# to be run from the directory where your pictshare directory sits in
git clone https://github.com/chrisiaut/pictshare.git temp
cp -r temp/* pictshare/.
rm -rf temp

Addons

Chrome Browser extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pictshare-1-click-imagesc/mgomffcdpnohakmlhhjmiemlolonpafc
- Source: https://github.com/chrisiaut/PictShare-Chrome-extension
Plugin to upload images with ShareX: https://github.com/ShareX/CustomUploaders/blob/master/pictshare.net.json

Coming soon

Delete codes for every uploaded image so users can delete images if no longer needed
Albums
Traffic analysis tool for server admins

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