Rails asset administration

While using Cloudinary, all your images, videos, and other raw files are uploaded to your Cloudinary account. You can use our Media Library web interface to browse through and manage your uploaded media assets and generated transformations. In addition, you can use methods from the Upload and Admin APIs, which offer methods for managing, organizing, and creating media assets.

Upload API methods can be used as needed.
Admin API methods are rate-limited.
You can view the number of hourly Admin API requests allowed by your account plan in the Account page of your console settings.

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Example

Upload API

In addition to the upload method, this API includes methods for:

renaming and permanetly deleting individual assets
adding tags and context metadata to assets
creating new assets such as text images, archives (zip or tgz), and sprites
modifying existing assets.

Admin API

A secure API with methods for managing and organizing your media assets, including:

listing and restoring assets
bulk asset deleting
managing upload presets, upload mappings, transformations, and folders
updating existing assets
performing advanced searches on the assets in your account
generating an account usage report

and more...

Example

The following Ruby example returns the details of an uploaded image according to its public ID, using the Admin API resource method:

require 'cloudinary'
Cloudinary::Api.resource("sample")

Sample output:

{
 "bytes" : 120264,
  "created_at" : "2017-07-01T11:10:57Z",
  "derived" : [ 
    { "bytes" : 5729,
      "format" : "jpg",
      "id" : "1892cd020611691462a8dc6616f81881",
      "secure_url" : "https://.../c_fill,w_100,h_100/v1312461204/sample.jpg",
      "transformation" : "c_fit,h_150,w_100",
      "url" : "https://.../image/upload/c_fill,w_100,h_100/v1312461204/sample.jpg" }
    { "bytes" : 19173,
      "format" : "jpg",
      "id" : "383e22a57167445552a3cdc16f0a0c85",
      "secure_url" : "https://.../upload/w_230,h_168,c_fit/v1312461204/sample.jpg",
      "transformation" : "w_230,h_168,c_fit",
      "url" : "https://.../image/upload/w_230,h_168,c_fit/v1312461204/sample.jpg" }],
  "format" : "jpg",
  "height" : 576,
  "next_cursor" : "c87e7b39f7fdd66ec31985196b455c40",
  "public_id" : "sample",
  "resource_type" : "image",
  "secure_url" : "https://.../demo/image/upload/v1371282172/sample.jpg",
  "type" : "upload",
  "url" : "https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/v1371282172/sample.jpg",
  "version" : 1371282172,
  "width" : 864
}