automatic upload from external url without base url?

Danny van Leeuwen

April 01, 2015 23:35

I'm trying to integrate a (public) image editor on my site and upload the result to cloudinary. For now I'm gonna use Aviary's web editor for that.

I'd like to know if I can use the fetch method for that. Aviary's resulting image is available for a short time only, meaning that I'd have to use fetch with automatic image uploading.

However, I read their output isn't saved in any specific base path, and I should not rely on that, meaning that I cannot use auto upload mapping, or can I use it without mapping, eg. specify a folder for non-matching/wildcard sources.

Otherwise I guess I'm gonna have to use the jquery plugin.

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  Danny van Leeuwen

  April 02, 2015 22:23

  Been doing some reading and looks like I need to use the upload method, and requires mapping. Is it possible to ignore certain parts of urls, eg. using wildcards?

  Aviary's save path looks like this:
  http://s3.amazonaws.com/some-slug-that-might-change/user-key/date/random-file-name

  Would be great if I could map eg. http://s3.amazonaws.com/*/user-key/ to a folder

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  Danny van Leeuwen

  April 05, 2015 21:03

  I asked about the wildcard mapping, so I can set it up to only accept uploads from "user-key". Actually, maybe an idea to use wildcard characters to remove folders/slugs from the source url, resulting in shorter urls and less nested folders (or shorter ID) for those who want it.

  Example mapping:
  folder: myfolder
  url prefix: http://example.com///*/

  url: http://example.com/child/grandchild/greatgrandchild/image.jpg
  result: http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/myfolder/image.jpg

  This could be extended to using it for shortening/renaming folders, eg. if a wildcard does not result in an empty "slug" (and thus remove it) it could replace it with whatever is defined, eg:

  url prefix: http://example.com/a//*c/
  result: http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/myfolder/a/c/image.jpg

  This would give even more fine-grained control without having to use plugins and server side code.

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  Itay Taragano

  April 09, 2015 19:51

  Hi Danny,
  Currently we don't support mapping like http://s3.amazonaws.com/*/user-key/, however you can either use standard API upload from the remote URL, or you can use fetch, which isn't limited to a specific mapping

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