Cloudinary
Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that provides comprehensive solutions for managing digital media assets, including images and videos, for websites and mobile applications. The platform exposes REST APIs for uploading and transforming media, administering assets and product environments, provisioning users and accounts, and configuring granular permissions. APIs use Basic Authentication with API key and secret over HTTPS.
Cloudinary publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Upload API and Notifications and Webhooks. Tagged areas include Asset Management, Digital Asset Management, Image Processing, Image Transformation, and Media.
The Cloudinary catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Cloudinary’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, signup flow, pricing, GitHub presence, privacy policy, and 7 more developer resources.
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APIs
Cloudinary Upload API
The Upload API exposes methods for uploading and managing assets, including advanced upload options, CRUD operations on assets, metadata management, eager and on-the-fly transfo...
Cloudinary Admin API
The Admin API supports bulk asset management (search, retrieval, update, delete, restore), and CRUD management of folders, metadata fields, metadata rules, upload presets, trans...
Cloudinary Search API
The Search API exposes Lucene-style query expressions across asset metadata, tags, contextual metadata, structured metadata, and AI-derived tags. Supports sorting, aggregation, ...
Cloudinary Provisioning API
The Provisioning API enables enterprise account-level management of product environments (sub-accounts), users, user groups, and API keys. Authentication uses provisioning API k...
Cloudinary Permissions API
The Permissions API assigns granular permissions to principals (users, groups, API keys) by roles or directly. Supports folder-scoped, asset- scoped, and product-environment-sco...
Cloudinary Transformation URL API
The Transformation URL API delivers and transforms images and videos by composing parameters into the delivery URL path (/{cloud_name}/{resource_type}/{type}/{transformations}/{...
Cloudinary Notifications and Webhooks
Cloudinary fires HTTP webhook notifications for upload completion, eager transformation completion, AI moderation outcomes, asset deletion, and backup events. Notifications incl...
Collections
GraphQL
Cloudinary GraphQL Schema
Cloudinary does not currently expose a public GraphQL API. This conceptual schema represents the domain model of Cloudinary's media management and transformation platform, deriv...
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FinOps
Cloudinary Finops
FINOPSFeatures
Event Specifications
Cloudinary Notifications
AsyncAPI description of Cloudinary's outbound notification (webhook) surface. Cloudinary delivers event notifications by issuing HTTP POST requests with a JSON body to a notific...
ASYNCAPIAPI Governance Rules
JSON Structure
Resources
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API