Image hosting with public API, management console and autoresize, any recommendations?

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I'm trying to find appropriate image hosting for my mobile app. I have been using flickr but it's not possible to proceed with it because due to (new?) terms and conditions I'm not allowed to upload images that do not produced by me.

I'm using the following flickr features:

Management console to upload images and assign tags to them.
REST API to get images by tag and sort them by date added. Anonymous or public key to allow only read data.
Autoresize because I have a mobile app and want to display a list of thumbnails.
Ok for commercial usage.

I have been looking at:

imageshack.us - buggy and unstable. For some reason the order of images differs from time to time.
cloudinary.com - it seems that the only way to get a list of images is to use a private API key which implies that someone could use this key to erase all the photos. So it's insecure.
uploadcare.com - does not have admin console.
api.imgur.com - too complicated for commercial usage: register app, register wit Mashape.. but correct me if I'm wrong.
minus.com - doesn't have resize and anonymous access to API.

Thank you in advance!

shashankg77 · Accepted Answer

For your use, you can use Amazon S3. It is great and it just works perfectly!

A possible cheaper option is Google. Google docs now supports all file types, so you can load the images up to a Google docs folder, and share the folder for public access. The URL's are kind of long though. There are various options for resizing etc and it's Google so obviously their API is stable and perfect.

Google only charges USD5/year for 20GB. There is a full API for uploading photos, docs etc.

Image hosting with public API, management console and autoresize, any recommendations?

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