Shell script to upload file by using Cloudinary API + cURL

cloudinary-shell-curl-upload.md

Shell script to upload file by using Cloudinary API + cURL

1. Create a new file e.g. cloudinary-curl-upload.sh

2. Then execute the file with required input parameters

  ./cloudinary-curl-upload.sh "path/to/file.ext" "cloud-name" "your-api-key" "your-api-secret"
  ./cloudinary-curl-upload.sh "path/to/file.ext" "cloud-name" "your-api-key" "your-api-secret" "remote-folder"

Resources

• https://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_images
• https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference
• https://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_images#generating_authentication_signatures
• https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/uploads
• https://curl.se/
• https://github.com/curl/curl
• https://support.cloudinary.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000183051-File-upload-using-curl-

cloudinary-shell-curl-upload.sh

#!/bin/bash

# ------------------------------
# Input parameters
fileName=$1
cloudName=$2
apiKey=$3
apiSecret=$4
folder=${5:-""}
# ------------------------------

timestamp=$(date +%s)

publicId=$(basename $fileName)

if [ ! -z $folder ]; then
  folderStr="folder=${folder}"
else
  folderStr=""
fi

datatobehashed="${folderStr}&public_id=${publicId}&timestamp=${timestamp}$apiSecret"

hash=$(echo -n ${datatobehashed} | sha1sum | awk '{print $1}')

commandArr=()
commandArr+=("curl -X POST https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/${cloudName}/auto/upload") # -s
commandArr+=("-F \"file=@${fileName}\"")
commandArr+=("-F \"public_id=${publicId}\"")
if [ ! -z $folder ]; then
  commandArr+=("-F \"${folderStr}\"")
fi
commandArr+=("-F \"api_key=${apiKey}\"")
commandArr+=("-F \"timestamp=${timestamp}\"")
commandArr+=("-F \"signature=${hash}\"")
# commandArr+=("> /dev/null")

commandStr="${commandArr[@]}"

eval $commandStr

exit 0