Uploading from a remote URL that requires an auth token

roo

Hi,

Is it possible to upload an image from a remote url that requires an auth token to access? I'm using the node SDK, and I don't see anything in the docs about doing this.

I do see an old post about this here: https://support.cloudinary.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021298511-Using-the-Authorization-header

But it doesn't seem to align with the current api/source in the cloudinary 1.4.1 package.

Anyways, is this possible? The use case is needing to grab an image from the whatsapp media API, which is only available at a url behind a token.

Cloudinary Team

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out.

Passing the headers parameter in your upload call is the correct way to go about this. You can reference the documentation here:
https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference#upload_optional_parameters:~:text=update script.-,headers,-String

Please give that a try and let us know if you have questions.

Kind regards,

Tia

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