ImgurSession

ImgurSession is an Objective-C networking library to easily make Imgur API requests within iOS and OS X apps. It is built on AFNetworking's AFHTTPSessionManager baseclass. ImgurSession provides access for V3 of the API. It handles OAuth2 authentication for user-authenticated sessions and also supports basic authentication for anonymous sessions. It covers all documented endpoints on Imgur's documentation. This is being used in production for my free app Imgurian.

This project was originally forked from ImgurKit by Johann Pardanaud and since refactored.

Features

• Full Imgur API V3

  • Use any of the Request classes in the ImgurSession/Request folder to make requests. Requests use Session singleton created before request was made.
  • CRUD actions for images, albums, comments, notifcations, messages, conversations, and accounts.
  • Multiple Image upload, upload from url.

• OAuth2 management.

  • Session only needs your app credentials. Handles all authentication except for when it needs a webview.
  • Session will refresh your tokens lazily. Feel free to use any request at any time.

• User account

  • Session notifies delegate of replies and messages to the users account automatically every 1 minute. Can be disabled.
  • Session refresh the user's account on token expiry every hour.

Using ImgurSession

Just import ImgurSession.h and setup the session with your credentials before making any requests. For user authorization, you must register for OAuth 2 authorization with or without a callback URL depending on the token type (Read more at Imgur). For authorized login, you must implement the delegate method imgurSessionNeedsExternalWebview: in order to open an external imgur.com page for OAuth authorization.

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
     [IMGSession authenticatedSessionWithClientID:@"clientID" secret:@"secret" authType:IMGCodeAuth withDelegate:self];
    
    return YES;
}

-(BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication annotation:(id)annotation{

    /*
    configure you app URL schema to handle the callback url then call completion with retrieved code from URL
    */

}

#pragma mark - IMGSessionDelegate

-(void)imgurSessionNeedsExternalWebview:(NSURL *)url completion:(void (^)())completion{
    
    //open imgur website to authenticate with callback url in safari
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];

    //save the completion block for later use when imgur responds with url callback
}

Or anonymous session (as configured by registered app on Imgur).

[IMGSession anonymousSessionWithClientID:@"anonToken" withDelegate:self];

Anywhere else in the app, make requests which will use the session singleton previously created to handle authentication and error handling. To retrieve the viral gallery:

    [IMGGalleryRequest hotGalleryPage:0 success:^(NSArray *objects) {
        
        //use gallery objects in a table for example
        self.tableRows = objects;
        [self.tableView reloadData];
        
    } failure:^(NSError *error) {
        
        //handle error
    }];