Hello everyone, I’m experiencing difficulties with an Android app that uses RapidAPI’s commercial API to upload images to Imgur. The upload feature has been malfunctioning for the past few days, and I’m unsure why.
According to Imgur’s API status page, everything seems operational and no incidents are currently reported. I also created a support ticket on RapidAPI’s website, but I haven’t received a response yet.
Is anyone else facing similar issues with the commercial API? If it’s down, do we have any updates regarding when it might be fixed?
Had this exact problem three months ago building a mobile gallery app. It’s not RapidAPI or Imgur - it’s RapidAPI’s caching that’s screwing you over. Their middleware holds onto dead connection data for hours even when everything’s working fine underneath. I fixed it by adding retry logic with exponential backoff and temporarily switching to a different RapidAPI endpoint. Also check your rate limits - the paid tiers have different throttling that they don’t document well. Try a curl test outside your app first to see if it’s RapidAPI or your code that’s broken.
Had the same issue last week with my web app. Turns out RapidAPI wasn’t handling expired auth tokens properly. I stopped trusting their error messages and started checking raw response headers and status codes instead - that’s where the real info was. Set up a token refresh mechanism if you haven’t, and add detailed logging to see exactly what the API’s sending back. I switched to direct Imgur API calls temporarily while RapidAPI fixed their stuff - worked way better. The paid tier’s supposed to be more reliable, but these third-party proxies add extra failure points that don’t show up on status pages.
yeah, rapidapi’s imgur integration has been acting up lately. started seeing the same issues around that time - my photo sharing app keeps timing out randomly. skipped their support since they’re slow to respond. set up direct imgur oauth calls as backup and i’m thinking of dropping rapidapi altogether for this.