Media upload
Last updated: Nov-14-2022
You can upload any file type, from almost any source, using a variety of upload options:
Image and video upload API
If you want to implement your own upload functionality, Cloudinary provides a secure and comprehensive API for easily uploading assets from server-side code, directly from the browser or from a mobile application.
You can upload using the REST API directly within your custom code or take advantage of Cloudinary's SDKs, which wrap the REST API and simplify the implementation.
Upload widget
Cloudinary offers the upload widget: a complete, interactive user interface that enables your employees or end-users to upload files from a variety of sources to your website or application. The widget, requiring just a couple lines of code to integrate, eliminates the need to develop in-house interactive media upload capabilities.
Media Library UI
The Media Library page within the Cloudinary console provides a variety of ways to upload media to your Cloudinary product environment from a variety of sources. This option is obviously limited to people with access to your Cloudinary product environment.
- Uploading assets: Learn about the options for uploading images, videos and other files via Cloudinary's secure and comprehensive API. This API enables uploading images from server-side code, directly from the browser, or from a mobile application.
- Transformations on upload: While uploading an asset, you can perform eager transformations that will already be generated and available before your users access them for the first time. You can also perform incoming transformations, which transform the original asset before storing it in Cloudinary, for example to limit an image size or a video duration.
- Analysis on upload: As part of your upload, you can request to perform one or more analyses on the asset. The analysis results are stored with the asset. This data can be used to assist in searching, or the data can be used to add extra functionality to your applications. Some of the analysis options are built-in and avaialable to all users, others are available to certain plans, and the rest are provided via Cloudinary add-ons.
- Upload presets: Upload presets enable you to centrally define a set of asset upload options instead of specifying them in each upload call. You can define multiple upload presets, and apply different presets in different upload scenarios. Upload presets can be set as signed or unsigned.
See also
- Asset administration: Covers options for managing your uploaded assets programmatically, including various CRUD options, backups and version management, notifications and webhooks, and authentication and signature options.
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