How to get random images from a folder

Hi @keshu,

Cloudinary does not provide a built-in feature to randomly select an image from a folder. However, you can achieve this by implementing a few steps in your Node.js and Express application. Here is one way to do it:

• First, you need to fetch all the images from the folder in Cloudinary. You can use the cloudinary.search method to achieve this. Here is an example code snippet:

const { resources } = await cloudinary.search
  .expression('folder:<folder_name>')
  .execute();

• Once you have all the images, you can select a random image from the array of images using the Math.random() method. Here is an example code snippet:

const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * resources.length);
const randomImage = resources[randomIndex];

• Finally, you can construct the URL for the random image using the secure_url property of the randomImage object. Here is an example code snippet:

const randomImageUrl = randomImage.secure_url;

You can then use this randomImageUrl as the default profile avatar for users who don’t upload their profile picture.

Please note that this is a basic implementation and you might need to handle errors and edge cases as per your application's requirements.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Regards,

Wissam