imgurroulette

imgur.py

import urllib2
import random
import sys

ext = ['.png', '.jpg', '.gif']
chars = '1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
prefix = 'http://i.imgur.com/'

try:
    print "Press Ctrl+C to end!"
    while True:
        code = ''.join([random.choice(chars) for x in range(0, 5)])
        filename = code+random.choice(ext)
        url = prefix+filename
        print 'Trying to download', url,
        image = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

        if len(image) == 669:
            print "...invalid url"
        else:
            with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
                f.write(image)
            print '...download successful!'
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print 'Done!'
    sys.exit(0)