How can I download my account's assets?

Cloudinary supports several ways to download many or all of your assets from your account. Depending on your requirements, the size of your account, and whether you are using Cloudinary's UI or API, you can choose from the following options:

• You can download assets directly from the Media Library UI. See Downloading from the UI below.
• If you're already using our SDK or API or if the account is very large, you can use the Admin API or Search API to list all resources in your account. The list includes the URL for accessing or downloading each original asset, which you can then do in bulk using any HTTP library or downloading tool.
• You can use the Command Line Interface to perform the same operation with the sync command. The sync command can use the search API to list all files, then download them to your computer or server. For more details, refer to the sync command.
• You can use our API to create a ZIP file containing up to 1000 assets, with a maximum size of 100 MB or your account's 'raw' file size limit (whichever is larger). For more information see generate_archive.
• On any paid Cloudinary account, you can choose to store backups of the files in your Cloudinary account in an Amazon S3 bucket or Google Cloud Storage bucket - the naming structure of the backup is different from how you see the files in Media Library, but this is a fast way to get a copy of all files if you can't use one of the above methods. For more details, refer to Using your own backup storage.

Downloading from the UI

You can download assets or folders directly from the Media Library:

• One asset: From any page in the Media Library, open the asset's context menu and click Download.
• Multiple assets: From any page in the Media Library, select the assets and click Download in the assets toolbar.
• An entire folder: Go to the Folders page, open the folder's context menu, and click Download.

When downloading multiple assets or a folder, Cloudinary packages them as a ZIP file (up to 1000 files, max 100 MB or your account's raw file size limit, whichever is larger). For more details, see Download folders.

After clicking Download, your browser may show a "leave page" prompt. This is expected. Confirming it won't navigate away from the current page; the download will proceed in the background.

The following video demonstrates how to download assets from the Media Library: