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Imagebin.ca

Upload an image, add the context that makes it useful later, and share the direct link.

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Imagebin.ca takes a screenshot, photograph, diagram, or anything else easier to show than describe, and gives back a link. Paste from the clipboard, drag the file in, or pick it from disk. A title, description, and tags are optional, and worth adding when the image will not explain itself later.

Anonymous uploads run to 8 MB per image and thirty an hour, and expire after ninety days. Signing in raises the limits, keeps the uploads, and adds management. Everything is public and appears in the recent-image gallery unless you mark it private, in which case only the link works. Alongside the direct image URL there is a short ibin.co link, and width-prefixed variants of it for smaller embeds.

As with the rest of the family, the web interface is not the only way in: there is a REST API, the pbca command-line tool, and a Model Context Protocol server for agent tooling, all on the same Pastebin.ca account.

History

I launched Imagebin.ca in 2007, when sharing a screenshot still meant finding somewhere to put it first. It outlasted the other services and kept doing its one job for years after the rest of the family had gone quiet.

The current version was rewritten alongside the revived family, with the legacy data carried forward and the original purpose unchanged.