CloudinaryUrl
Generate signed urls ready to upload a file to cloudinary.
About Cloudinary URL uploads
To upload an image to cloudinary requires a signed URL unless your cloudinary account has been set to accept unsigned uploads.
To upload in image to cloudinary requires a POST request to a url with a few manditory form encoded parameters including a signature. See the slightly cryptic docs.
Generating the signature
- taking the required form parameters
api_key=abc
timestamp=12345678910
public_id=demoimage
- turning them into query stringified version
api_key=123&public_id='fish'×tamp=1234678910
- concating your secret key (SECRET) given by cloudinary to the end
api_key=123&public_id='fish'×tamp=1234678910SECRET
- The signature is a sha1 hex digest of this
a97a90c79a07039d9097af0a987fa29861fafaa987
Using the library
var CloudinaryURl = ; var urlGenerator = 'apiKey' 'apiSecret' 'bucketName'; cloudinaryData = urlGenerator console // https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/bucketName/image/upload console /* { api_key: 'apiKey', public_id: 'fish', timestamp: '12345678910', signature: 'a97a90c79a07039d9097af0a987fa29861fafaa987' } */
These details can be used to make a request using your favourite HTTP library. I'm rather partial to superagent for node.
var request = request type'form'
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