Developers
Discover how Cloudinary helps you build more engaging and performant web and app experiences while making your life easier along the way.
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Popular With Developers
Cloudinary Visual Studio Code Extension
Access your Cloudinary Media Library from your IDE. Find and preview assets, copy URLs, upload files, or switch environments, all from inside Visual Studio Code. Just code and media, in one place.
Developer SDKs
Whatever your tech stack, Cloudinary has you covered with a huge selection of SDKs in all your favorite backend, frontend, and mobile languages and frameworks.
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Sample Applications
Learn how to optimize, manage, and deliver visual media with less effort with apps that showcase automation, AI enhancements, and integrations with popular frameworks and CMS systems. Browse the gallery, clone the repo, and customize the apps to suit your workflow.
Documentation
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Image Transformations
Modify images on the fly by applying parameters for resizing, cropping, formatting, effects, and more through the URL or API.
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Media Optimization
Automatically adjust image and video quality, format, and size to deliver the best performance across devices, browsers, and network conditions.
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API References
Detailed documentation for all image, video, upload, and admin APIs, including supported parameters, methods, and code examples.
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Client-side Widgets
Prebuilt UI components that let users upload, browse, and manage media directly from the browser with minimal configuration.
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Platform Integrations
Ready-made connectors to popular frameworks, CMSs, e-commerce platforms, and CI/CD tools for streamlined media management.
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Code Explorers & Demos
Interactive examples and sample code to help devs learn, test, and implement media capabilities quickly.
Community Libraries
These libraries are built and maintained by community members. They provide Cloudinary integrations with popular frameworks and other developer tools. Please note that these community libraries are not official Cloudinary SDKs and are dependent on the community to continually enhance them.
What Developers Are Saying
James Q Quick
Content Creator, Learn Build Teach, LLC
Creating customized images for each episode of our podcast, Compressed.fm, is a hassle. To save loads of time and energy, we use Cloudinary to automatically generate unique images with JavaScript for each episode. This is just one of the amazing benefits that Cloudinary brings to the media world.
Jason Lengstorf
VP of Developer Experience, Netlify
I have spent hundreds of hours wrestling with media assets for websites in my career. Cloudinary was a game changer for me because I was able to write a bit of code for my websites to transform and optimize media, then forget about it. I don’t have to think about accidentally publishing giant, unoptimized images. In fact, I don’t have to think about images at all anymore. Which is nice.
Tim Benniks
Principal Developer Advocate, Uniform
As a creative developer I’ve been working with media for many years. The times before I discovered Cloudinary feel like the stone ages now. I used to role my own image optimization pipelines, and tools for image transformations. When we needed to normalize thousands of product assets for one of the number one fashion houses in the world, we reached out to Cloudinary. We got it done in a few days and a collaboration was born. I can’t imagine working on any project without using Cloudinary.
Kent C. Dodds
Software Engineer & Educator, Kent C. Dodds Tech LLC
Cloudinary allows me to improve my site’s performance and easily manage images and even generate custom images with it’s powerful transformation capabilities.
Chris Coyier
Co-Founder, Codepen
I have pretty much accomplished this very difficult task of dealing with images on the website fairly trivially… Cloudinary is awesome for that.
Gant Laborde
CIO, Infinite Red
Cloudinary is my favorite one-stop tool for effective and impactful media results. With one stroke, I can leverage Cloudinary to deliver an optimized, reliable, and outstanding solution in a moment that should have taken months
Raymond Camden
Senior Developer Evangelist, Adobe
Cloudinary hits the sweet spot of powerful, flexible, and incredibly easy to use. Its URL-based syntax means it’s quick to pick up and test by just playing around in your browser. Combined with excellent docs and a huge amount of examples, I can absolutely recommend their service!
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