Cloudinary Nodejs SDK - add_context method

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Joe Lage

• May 11, 2022 10:25

I have been trying to add contextual data to uploaded assets but I keep getting a result of a empty public_ids

import { v2 as cloudinary } from 'cloudinary'

cloudinary.config({
    cloud_name: '******',
    api_key: '********',
    api_secret: '********',
    secure: true
    });

const public_id = "knr1edxngugcejvihruz"

await cloudinary.uploader.add_context("alt=My image❘caption=Profile image", [public_id], (err, res) => {
if(err) return console.log(err)

console.log(res)
});

Console log:

{ public_ids: [] }

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  Eric Pasos

  • May 12, 2022 06:39

  Hi Joe,

  You can add contextual metadata to an existing asset in your Media Library by using the Admin API update method. For example:

  cloudinary.api.update("sample_public_id", 
    { 
        type: "upload", 
        context: {
          caption: "YourCaptionDataHere"
        } 
    }, function(error, result) {console.log(result); } );

  Hope this helps.

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  Joe Lage

  • May 12, 2022 22:30
  • Edited

  Hi Eric,

  Thank you for your help. I tried changing the method as you suggested, but now I am getting an error. It saying the resource was not found with that public id, which is clearly not the case.

  To give a quick background I am trying to build a cloud function which gets triggered by Cloudinary's Notify webhook and uploads the newly uploaded video asset to Facebook's video endpoint and gets a unique "id" from facebook which then I would like to attach as the contextual or metadata tot he cloudinary asset.

  **Edit: I might be missing the resource_type param, checking now...

  {
    message: 'Resource not found - jk8pp4lygnt5qvdnxijc',
    http_code: 404
  }

  

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