Ruby/Rails asset management

While using Cloudinary, all your images, videos, and other raw files are uploaded to Cloudinary. You can use our Media Library web interface to browse through and manage your uploaded media assets. 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 Cloudinary plan in the Account page of your Console Settings.

On this page:

• Upload API
• Admin API
• Upload API example - delete a single asset
• Admin API example - get details of a single asset

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Upload API

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

• renaming and permanently deleting individual assets
• adding tags, contextual metadata and structured 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 product environment

• generating a usage report

  
  and more...

Upload API example - delete a single asset

The following Ruby example uses the Upload API destroy method to delete the video with public ID sample:

require 'cloudinary'
Cloudinary::Uploader.destroy('sample', resource_type: 'video')

Sample output:

{
  "result": "ok"
}

For more Upload API examples in Ruby, select the Ruby tab in the Upload API reference.

Admin API example - get details of a single asset

The following Ruby example uses the Admin API resource method to return details of the image with public ID sample:

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

Sample output:

{
  "asset_id": "d86882d7788f5d1d702cb63418f082a6",
  "public_id": "sample",
  "format": "jpg",
  "version": 1312461204,
  "resource_type": "image",
  "type": "upload",
  "created_at": "2017-08-04T12:33:24Z",
  "bytes": 120253,
  "width": 864,
  "height": 576,
  "url": "http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/v1312461204/sample.jpg",
  "secure_url": "https://.../image/upload/v1312461204/sample.jpg",
  "next_cursor": "041a39fc10971b9eabd4993470f6bfaf",
  "derived": [
    {
      "transformation": "c_fill,w_100,h_100",
      "format": "jpg",
      "bytes": 7112,
      "id": "8267a869b62a93a59248f35d7f124c1f",
      "url": "http://.../demo/image/upload/c_fill,w_100,h_100/v1312461204/sample.jpg",
      "secure_url": "https://.../image/upload/c_fill,w_100,h_100/v1312461204/sample.jpg"
    },
    {
      "transformation": "w_230,h_168,c_fit",
      "format": "jpg",
      "bytes": 19173,
      "id": "383e22a57167445552a3cdc16f0a0c85",
      "url": "http://.../demo/image/upload/w_230,h_168,c_fit/v1312461204/sample.jpg",
      "secure_url": "https://.../image/upload/w_230,h_168,c_fit/v1312461204/sample.jpg"
    }
  ]
 }

For more Admin API examples in Ruby, select the Ruby tab in the Admin API reference.

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