Direct uploads allow users to upload images without API keys. A common use case are web apps, client-side applications, or mobile devices where users upload content directly to Cloudflare Images. This method creates a draft record for a future image. It returns an upload URL and an image identifier. To verify if the image itself has been uploaded, send an image details request (accounts/:account_identifier/images/v1/:identifier), and check that the `draft: true` property is not present.
/accounts/{account_identifier}/images/v2/direct_upload
post
Cloudflare Images
cloudflare-images-create-authenticated-direct-upload-url-v-2
nullnull[
{
"in": "path",
"name": "account_identifier",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"description": "Account identifier tag.",
"example": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
"maxLength": 32,
"readOnly": true,
"type": "string"
}
}
]{
"content": {
"multipart/form-data": {
"schema": {
"properties": {
"expiry": {
"default": "Now + 30 minutes",
"description": "The date after which the upload will not be accepted. Minimum: Now + 2 minutes. Maximum: Now + 6 hours.",
"example": "2021-01-02T02:20:00Z",
"format": "date-time",
"type": "string"
},
"id": {
"description": "Optional Image Custom ID. Up to 1024 chars. Can include any number of subpaths, and utf8 characters. Cannot start nor end with a / (forward slash). Cannot be a UUID.",
"example": "this/is/my-customid",
"maxLength": 1024,
"readOnly": true,
"type": "string"
},
"metadata": {
"description": "User modifiable key-value store. Can be used for keeping references to another system of record, for managing images.",
"type": "object"
},
"requireSignedURLs": {
"default": false,
"description": "Indicates whether the image requires a signature token to be accessed.",
"example": true,
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"type": "object"
}
}
},
"required": true
}{
"200": {
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"allOf": [
{
"allOf": [
{
"properties": {
"errors": {
"example": [],
"items": {
"properties": {
"code": {
"minimum": 1000,
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object",
"uniqueItems": true
},
"type": "array"
},
"messages": {
"example": [],
"items": {
"properties": {
"code": {
"minimum": 1000,
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object",
"uniqueItems": true
},
"type": "array"
},
"result": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "object"
},
{
"items": {},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"success": {
"description": "Whether the API call was successful",
"enum": [
true
],
"example": true,
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"success",
"errors",
"messages",
"result"
],
"type": "object"
},
{
"properties": {
"result": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "object"
},
{
"type": "string"
}
]
}
}
}
],
"type": "object"
},
{
"properties": {
"result": {
"properties": {
"id": {
"description": "Image unique identifier.",
"example": "e22e9e6b-c02b-42fd-c405-6c32af5fe600",
"maxLength": 32,
"readOnly": true,
"type": "string"
},
"uploadURL": {
"description": "The URL the unauthenticated upload can be performed to using a single HTTP POST (multipart/form-data) request.",
"example": "https://upload.imagedelivery.net/FxUufywByo0m2v3xhKSiU8/e22e9e6b-c02b-42fd-c405-6c32af5fe600",
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
}
]
}
}
},
"description": "Create authenticated direct upload URL V2 response"
},
"4XX": {
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"allOf": [
{
"allOf": [
{
"allOf": [
{
"properties": {
"errors": {
"example": [],
"items": {
"properties": {
"code": {
"minimum": 1000,
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object",
"uniqueItems": true
},
"type": "array"
},
"messages": {
"example": [],
"items": {
"properties": {
"code": {
"minimum": 1000,
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object",
"uniqueItems": true
},
"type": "array"
},
"result": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "object"
},
{
"items": {},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"success": {
"description": "Whether the API call was successful",
"enum": [
true
],
"example": true,
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"success",
"errors",
"messages",
"result"
],
"type": "object"
},
{
"properties": {
"result": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "object"
},
{
"type": "string"
}
]
}
}
}
],
"type": "object"
},
{
"properties": {
"result": {
"properties": {
"id": {
"description": "Image unique identifier.",
"example": "e22e9e6b-c02b-42fd-c405-6c32af5fe600",
"maxLength": 32,
"readOnly": true,
"type": "string"
},
"uploadURL": {
"description": "The URL the unauthenticated upload can be performed to using a single HTTP POST (multipart/form-data) request.",
"example": "https://upload.imagedelivery.net/FxUufywByo0m2v3xhKSiU8/e22e9e6b-c02b-42fd-c405-6c32af5fe600",
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
}
]
},
{
"properties": {
"errors": {
"allOf": [
{
"example": [],
"items": {
"properties": {
"code": {
"minimum": 1000,
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object",
"uniqueItems": true
},
"type": "array"
}
],
"example": [
{
"code": 7003,
"message": "No route for the URI"
}
],
"minLength": 1
},
"messages": {
"allOf": [
{
"example": [],
"items": {
"properties": {
"code": {
"minimum": 1000,
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object",
"uniqueItems": true
},
"type": "array"
}
],
"example": []
},
"result": {
"enum": [
null
],
"nullable": true,
"type": "object"
},
"success": {
"description": "Whether the API call was successful",
"enum": [
false
],
"example": false,
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"success",
"errors",
"messages",
"result"
],
"type": "object"
}
]
}
}
},
"description": "Create authenticated direct upload URL V2 response failure"
}
}[
{
"api_token": []
},
{
"api_email": [],
"api_key": []
}
]