I’ve been using the Imgur service through RapidAPI for my web application and everything was working perfectly until recently. Starting about 48 hours ago, I began getting 404 responses when trying to upload images to the https://imgur-apiv3.p.rapidapi.com/3/image endpoint.
My upload functionality hasn’t changed at all on my end. The same code that was working fine before now just returns a 404 with no additional error details or status messages. I checked the RapidAPI platform and found other developers reporting similar issues in the discussion forums, but there doesn’t seem to be any official response from Imgur yet.
Has anyone else experienced this problem with the Imgur RapidAPI integration? I’m not sure if this is a temporary outage or if something has changed with their API structure. Any suggestions for troubleshooting or alternative approaches would be helpful.
Same thing happened to me last week. Tried the v4 endpoint but RapidAPI still screws up the routing. Just ditch RapidAPI entirely - Imgur’s direct API is free and actually works. Took me 20 minutes to refactor my code and haven’t had problems since. Their wrapper’s completely broken now.
Same thing happened to me around that time. Turns out Imgur killed some old endpoints but didn’t update their RapidAPI integration properly. The wrapper’s basically hitting dead URLs now. I switched to Cloudinary temporarily - their free tier works fine for basic uploads and wasn’t hard to migrate. You could also try adding version headers to your requests, sometimes that tricks the wrapper into using newer endpoints. Also double-check your RapidAPI subscription is still active - some people had billing issues that caused silent failures.
Had the exact same problem 36 hours ago with my mobile app - tons of Imgur uploads failing. Looks like Imgur changed their API infrastructure and broke the RapidAPI wrapper. The 404s happen because RapidAPI can’t route requests to Imgur’s new endpoints properly. I ditched RapidAPI and went straight to Imgur’s direct API - fixed it instantly. You’ll need to register with Imgur directly and swap out your auth headers, but the endpoints are basically the same. Been rock solid since I switched, though I’m hoping RapidAPI gets their act together because their service was way more convenient.