README.md

imgur_id7

Fast tool to scan for valid 7-long imgur ids for the ArchiveTeam imgur efforts (not affiliated or endorsed)

Optionally uses supplied http proxies to scan many ids in parallel since imgur does have rate limiting.

Generates ids at random since there's too many ids to reasonably scan in order anyways.

Usage

Usage: imgur_id7 [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -r, --results-file <RESULTS_FILE>
          Where to save found results
  -p, --proxy-file <PROXY_FILE>
          This specifies an optional list of http proxies to use
          Proxy list file has the format of 'PROXY_HOST:PROXY_PORT:PROXY_USER:PROXY_PASSWORD' with one entry per line
          So for example 'proxy.example.com:1234:username:password123'
          For each entry, one worker will be spawned.
  -o, --offline
          If used, results will not be reported automatically
      --online-tracker-url <ONLINE_TRACKER_URL>
          Url to an alternative result tracker, results are POST'ed to the url with a json body
          in the format of {"images_found": ["AsDfgHi", "7654321", "1234567", ...]}
          Defaults to nicolas17's tracker
  -c, --concurrent <CONCURRENT>
          How many requests to queue per second (actual rate will be slightly lower) [default: 3]
      --concurrent-unsafe
          Bypass concurrency sanity check
  -h, --help
          Print help
  -V, --version
          Print version

Building

Github Actions are set up to provide builds, but especially the linux ones might not run on your distro

Building is easy though!

1. Install rust
2. Install your platforms compiler toolchain (for debian-based distros this would be apt install build-essential, for windows this might be MSVC)
3. Clone this repo or download it as a .zip
4. Run cargo build --release* and grab the resulting binary from target/release/imgur_id7
5. Success!

*You might have to install library headers like libssl-dev and pkg-config, but the build process will complain accordingly