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
Builtin and simple resizing and caching
Duplicates don't take up space. If the exact same images is uploaded twice, the second upload will link to the first

What's that about resizing?

Lets's say you have uploaded this image:

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

But you want to use it as your avatar in some forum that only allows 100x100 pixel images. Instead of editing the picture and re-uploading it you just edit the URL and add "/100x100/ before the image name like this: https://www.pictshare.net/100x100/b260e36b60.jpg

Just by editing the URL and adding the size (in widthxheight) the image gets resized and the resized version gets cached to the disk so it loads much faster on the next request.

You can limit the number of resizes per image in the index.php file

Filters

PictShare also supports multiple filters (at once) that you can apply just by changing the URL. Filters that need values are set like this: filtername_value. Eg: pixelate_10

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

Filter | Paramter | Example URL | Result

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 Webserver with PHP (Apache because of the included .htaccess files)
PHP 5 GD library
Some hostname or subdomain. Site might get messed up if it's not stored in the root directory of the webserver

Installing PictShare

Just unpack it on your webserver (remember, pictshare needs to be in a root directory) and it should work out of the box
(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.

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
Albums

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