Just curious, what about scp-ing to your server is less than ideal for you? I would think a static server with nginx or similar would be an easy one time setup and then you do a single command to scp to it whenever you want to add images. No redeploy necessary. I would almost consider that easier than other bespoke solutions that you would have to learn
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Can you encode them as base64 URL?
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There is also copyparty. Spin up the docker container, upload your images, copy/paste the links, boom.
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You could throw Garage or Minio in a container and upload the images to a public bucket.
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Yep) My program for that purpose: https://codeberg.org/nykula/imgie - resurrected three months ago because another person on PieFed reminded me of it. Should just work. Ping me if it doesn't.
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Things like Immich or Nextcloud are far too much for what I need, I basically just need a password-protected upload interface and the ability to grab the direct links to the images to embed them.
Why do you care that they do things you don't need if they also do what you need?
Because these do just what you need and do it well.
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol for encrypted file transfer, over SSH |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
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I personally do ShareX, with an SFTP destination for an nginx webserver. It has an image editor built in as part of the workflow if you enable it, and it can automatically copy the clipboard URL.
You could certainly go the extra mile and setup an image sharing manager or a more complicated solution if you wanted to though, if that makes overall administration easier.
Honestly, filebrowser or filebrowser quantum are what you need. Essentially a web UI frontend for sftp / sshfs. Really simple light weight.
https://github.com/andrii-kryvoviaz/slink from https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Image+Sharing
https://github.com/mtlynch/picoshare from https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=File+Sharing
Seems like these could fit the bill.
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