Cloudinary
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| rclone support tier | Tier 3: Supported |
| Checksums | MD5 |
| Modification times | Not kept: files show their upload time |
| Case-insensitive names | No |
| Duplicate names allowed | No |
| Server-side copy | No |
| Server-side move and rename | No |
| Folder move and rename | No: each file is moved in turn |
| Free space reporting | No |
| Empty folders | Yes |
| Change notifications | No |
| Uploads of unknown size | No |
| Public links | No |
This is a backend for the Cloudinary platform
About Cloudinary
Section titled “About Cloudinary”Cloudinary is an image and video API platform. Trusted by 1.5 million developers and 10,000 enterprise and hyper-growth companies as a critical part of their tech stack to deliver visually engaging experiences.
Accounts & Pricing
Section titled “Accounts & Pricing”To use this backend, you need to create a free account on Cloudinary. Start with a free plan with generous usage limits. Then, as your requirements grow, upgrade to a plan that best fits your needs. See the pricing details.
Securing Your Credentials
Section titled “Securing Your Credentials”Please refer to the docs
Setup notes
Section titled “Setup notes”In CloudMount you add this drive from the Add drive screen, and the wizard asks for the options listed under Options. The notes below come from rclone’s setup guide.
Modified time and hashes
Section titled “Modified time and hashes”Cloudinary stores md5 and timestamps for any successful Put automatically and read-only.
Options
Section titled “Options”Standard options
Section titled “Standard options”The wizard asks for these when you add the drive.
cloud_name
Section titled “cloud_name”Cloudinary Environment Name
Type: string · Required
api_key
Section titled “api_key”Cloudinary API Key
Type: string · Required
api_secret
Section titled “api_secret”Cloudinary API Secret
Type: string · Required
upload_prefix
Section titled “upload_prefix”Specify the API endpoint for environments out of the US
Type: string
upload_preset
Section titled “upload_preset”Upload Preset to select asset manipulation on upload
Type: string
Advanced options
Section titled “Advanced options”The wizard shows these under Advanced options. Most drives work without changing any of them.
encoding
Section titled “encoding”The encoding for the backend.
See the encoding section in the overview for more info.
Type: Encoding · Default: Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot
eventually_consistent_delay
Section titled “eventually_consistent_delay”Wait N seconds for eventual consistency of the databases that support the backend operation
Type: Duration · Default: 0s
adjust_media_files_extensions
Section titled “adjust_media_files_extensions”Cloudinary handles media formats as a file attribute and strips it from the name, which is unlike most other file systems
Type: bool · Default: true
media_extensions
Section titled “media_extensions”Cloudinary supported media extensions
Type: stringArray · Default: [3ds 3g2 3gp ai arw avi avif bmp bw cr2 cr3 djvu dng eps3 fbx flif flv gif glb gltf hdp heic heif ico indd jp2 jpe jpeg jpg jxl jxr m2ts mov mp4 mpeg mts mxf obj ogv pdf ply png psd svg tga tif tiff ts u3ma usdz wdp webm webp wmv]
description
Section titled “description”Description of the remote.
Type: string