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.

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

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

 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?

From 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":"http:\/\/pictshare.net\/10ba188162.png"}

From base64

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.

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 index.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.

Browser extensions

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pictshare-1-click-imagesc/mgomffcdpnohakmlhhjmiemlolonpafc
- Source: https://github.com/chrisiaut/PictShare-Chrome-extension

Coming soon

Restricted uploads so you can control who may upload on your instance
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