Delete an image from Cloudinary using REST full api - cloudinary

Question

How can I delete an image from my cloudinary server using simple REST api? though I'm able to upload an image successfully but couldn't find a proper way to delete the same using api

Answer 1

If you're using one of the Cloudinary server-side SDKs then you can delete a resource from Cloudinary using the destroy method of the Upload API.
If you're making a direct call to the API then you can use cURL. For example, to delete the image with public_id sample_image from cloud my_cloud I can do the following.
Export all required variables:
export CLD_NAME=my_cloud
export CLD_API_KEY=12345
export CLD_API_SECRET=abcde
Generate the signature:
export TIME=$(date +%s)
export SIGNATURE=$(echo -n "invalidate=true&public_id=sample_image&timestamp=$TIME$CLD_API_SECRET" | openssl sha1)
curl -X POST https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/$CLD_NAME/image/destroy --data "invalidate=true&public_id=sample_image&timestamp=$TIME&signature=$SIGNATURE&api_key=$CLD_API_KEY"
For more information regarding direct API calls please see this section of the documentation - https://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_images#generating_authentication_signatures

Answer 2

When you upload the image,public_id shoud be saved in the database. Otherwise, you can't delete images using URL. I tried in React Js to upload images.
``
onClickHandler = () => {
const data = new FormData()
for(var x = 0; x<this.state.selectedFile.length; x++) {
data.append('file', this.state.selectedFile[x])
data.append("upload_preset","*****")
data.append("cloud_name","*****")
axios.post("https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/*****/image/upload",data)
.then((res) => {
console.log(res.data);
console.log(res.data);
const imageDetails={
image:res.data.secure_url,
public_id:res.data.public_id,
productName:"*******"
}
axios.post("http://localhost:4000/*********",imageDetails)
.then(res=>console.log(res))
})
}
``
Then you can delete images using node js. refer the below link to get node js code
Delete cloudinary images in node js