diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e07b73a..3e7793e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 language: python
 python:
-  - "2.7"
   - "3.6"
   - "3.7"
   - "3.8"
+  - "3.9"
 # command to install dependencies
 install:
   - pip install -r requirements.txt
diff --git a/html_telegraph_poster/upload_images.py b/html_telegraph_poster/upload_images.py
index aaccabb..475114f 100644
--- a/html_telegraph_poster/upload_images.py
+++ b/html_telegraph_poster/upload_images.py
@@ -37,9 +37,12 @@ def _get_mimetype_from_response_headers(headers):
     return ''
 
 
-def upload_image(file_name_or_url, user_agent='Python_telegraph_poster/0.1'):
+def upload_image(file_name_or_url, user_agent='Python_telegraph_poster/0.1', return_json=False):
 
-    if re.match(r'^https?://', file_name_or_url, flags=re.IGNORECASE):
+    if hasattr(file_name_or_url, 'read') and hasattr(file_name_or_url, 'name'):
+        img = file_name_or_url
+        img_content_type = mimetypes.guess_type(file_name_or_url.name)[0]
+    elif re.match(r'^https?://', file_name_or_url, flags=re.IGNORECASE):
         img = requests.get(file_name_or_url, headers={'User-Agent': user_agent})
 
         if img.status_code != 200 or 'Content-Type' not in img.headers:
@@ -73,7 +76,9 @@ def upload_image(file_name_or_url, user_agent='Python_telegraph_poster/0.1'):
 
     if json_response.status_code == requests.codes.ok and json_response.content:
         json_response = json_response.json()
-        if type(json_response) is list and len(json_response):
+        if return_json:
+            return json_response
+        elif type(json_response) is list and len(json_response):
             return 'src' in json_response[0] and base_url + json_response[0]['src'] or ''
         elif type(json_response) is dict:
             if json_response.get('error') == 'File type invalid':
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index acb677b..0ddda41 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     long_description = fh.read()
 
 setup(name='html_telegraph_poster',
-      version='0.2.31',
+      version='0.3.0',
       description='Posts your html to telegra.ph blogging service',
       long_description=long_description,
       long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
diff --git a/tests/test_htp.py b/tests/test_htp.py
index 6d838f0..2f7621e 100644
--- a/tests/test_htp.py
+++ b/tests/test_htp.py
@@ -10,6 +10,22 @@ def test_upload(self):
         telegraph_url = upload_image('http://httpbin.org/image/jpeg')
         self.assertIn('http://telegra.ph/file/', telegraph_url)
 
+    def test_upload_return_json(self):
+        telegraph_response = upload_image('http://httpbin.org/image/jpeg', return_json=True)
+        self.assertIsInstance(telegraph_response, list)
+        self.assertTrue(len(telegraph_response), 1)
+        self.assertNotEqual(telegraph_response[0].get('src'), None)
+
+    def test_upload_from_file_object(self):
+        b64file = 'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mP8/x8AAwMCAO+ip1sAAAAASUVORK5CYII='
+        from io import BytesIO
+        from base64 import b64decode
+        with BytesIO(b64decode(b64file)) as file_to_upload:
+            # emulate filename for mimetype detection
+            file_to_upload.name = 'sample.png'
+            telegraph_image_url = upload_image(file_to_upload)
+            self.assertIn('http://telegra.ph/file/', telegraph_image_url)
+
     def test_mime_headers(self):
         self.assertEqual('image/jpeg', _get_mimetype_from_response_headers({'Content-Type': 'image/jpg'}))
         self.assertEqual('image/jpeg', _get_mimetype_from_response_headers({'Content-Type': 'image/jpeg'}))