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Cloudinary Postman collections to make it easier to try our APIs
Postman is a popular tool for running REST API requests, whether it's to get a feel for the request and response parameters or maybe even for automation. We're a big fan at Cloudinary and so we've created our own public workspace with a set of collections that you can fork and use to test out various API calls. To get…
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Cloudinary Vue JavaScript API how can I get the pixellate effect when loading the image
Hey all, I have a directive that gets an image using the JavaScript API. Currently it looks like this: const url = cloudinaryCore.url(publicId, { secure: true, transformation: [ { height, width, gravity, crop, quality: "auto", fetchFormat: "auto", }, ], }); This works and I can apply the image to the background as so:…
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Knowing what to avoid in an image
You may have used the Cloudinary AI Content Analysis add-on to help you to keep certain objects in the picture when cropping images, but did you know you can also use it to crop out unwanted objects? You may not necessarily know what you want to focus on in an image, but you definitely know what you don't want to see. With…
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Self-referencing variables in transformations
There are lots of times when you might want to overlay (or underlay) a different transformation of the same image. For example, you might want to have a small, cropped and zoomed version of a product as a layer over a full sized image of a product, or you might want a blurred landscape version of a picture as the…
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Moderating user-generated content efficiently
How do you keep content that users post on your site high-quality and appropriate, free of viruses or malware, once you’ve grown to the point that manually moderating each user submission is unwieldy? Inviting user-generated content can serve many purposes for different kinds of sites. For example, if you own a news site,…
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On-the-fly Background Removal
Background removal is one of my favorite tools baked-in to Cloudinary, but it always required a bit of extra effort to both upload it and figure out when the background removal process is completed. The good news is now we can remove backgrounds on the fly 🤩 Simply add the e_background_removal transformation and you're…
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Using API via Cloudinary's SDK vs. RESTful API
Cloudinary's SDK libraries may be used with our Programmable Media product to wrap RESTful APIs for easier interaction, integrating seamlessly with your existing application code. SDKs are available for the most popular frontend, backend, and mobile programming languages. Advanced capabilities are available using SDKs with…
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[JavaScript] Upload Multiple Images at Once Using Cloudinary’s Upload API
If you're working in the Node.js ecosystem and want to upload multiple assets to your Cloudinary account, using our Upload API is going to be your best bet. First, ensure you have the most up to date version of Node.js Next, let's use the Cloudinary Node SDK to simplify our implementation. Our amazing documentation team…