Introduction to Cloudinary Using Python

Environment Setup

Install Python3 and Pip

You will need to install Python on your machine, version 3.8 or higher.

Important - Installing Python will also install pip, the package manager for Python.

Mac

Install Python3 and Pip3 on Mac Using Brew

Install Python on Mac - 3.11.0 is here!

Windows

Install Python on Windows

Mac Users

Using Homebrew:

brew install python3

Verify Python install

# verify versions
$ python3 --version
Python 3.10.8 #Python 3.8 or above is ideal!

$ pip3 --version
pip 22.3

Choose an IDE or Use Text Editor

• Visual Studio Code (we use VSCode!)
• WebStorm
• Sublime
• Atom
• iTerm

Download Repository

Introduction to Cloudinary for API Users and Python Developers

• Assets are located in /assets directory
• Run code from root directory

Credentials

1. Create a free account on Cloudinary at cloudinary.com/signup

2. Navigate to the Dashboard. Copy your CLOUDINARY_URL into your clipboard.

• Key: CLOUDINARY_URL
• Value: cloudinary://API_KEY:API_SECRET@CLOUD_NAME

3. Create a .env file in the root of the project. Paste your CLOUDINARY_URL environment variable into your .env file. OR, you can use the env.example file we've created for you, which already exists in this repository. You can paste in your CLOUDINARY_URL where there is currently a placeholder for you which looks like this:

CLOUDINARY_URL=cloudinary://API_KEY:API_SECRET@CLOUD_NAME

We store credentials in a .env file (or a .env.sample file!), but this isn't the only way.

3 ways for credentials

Use Pip3 to Install Cloudinary and dotenv

Get the latest Pip

pip3 install --upgrade pip

Install Cloudinary

pip3 install cloudinary

Install dotenv

pip3 install python-dotenv 

In python script

from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os 

load_dotenv()

Run Code: Test Credentials

Make sure to npm install the Python libraries. You will be using the cloudinary and the dotenv libraries.

python3 test_config.py

You should see your Cloud Name and API Key output in this format:

****Set up and configure the SDK:****
 cloud_name | api_key 

PS- Always keep your API_Secret private!

Run Code

python3 upload.py

Credits

assets/images

anteater.jpg - Photo by Sean P. Twomey from Pexels

glacier.mp4 - Photo by Jan Zakelj from Pexels

iguana.jpg - Photo by Simon Berger from Pexels

puma.jpg - Photo by Pixabay from Pexels

llama.jpg - Photo by Jen Brissman, Machu Picchu, Cusco, Peru

sealion.jpg - Photo by Jen Brissman, San Cristobal Island, Galapagos

tortoise.mp4 - Photo by Jen Brissman, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

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