How to Upload Audio and Video to Cloudinary in Nodejs

Even after reading the documentation, I ran across a few problems when uploading audio and video to cloudinary. Although I read some publications online, such as StackOverflow, the methodology differs and appears to be a little complex. Still, after discovering a technique to upload audio and video smoothly, I decided to share the steps with anyone who might find the blogs and articles challenging to use.

A working knowledge of JavaScript

A basic understanding of NodeJS

Cloudinary is an end-to-end image and video management system for websites and mobile apps that handle everything from image and video uploads through storage, manipulations, and optimizations, all the way to delivery.

Without installing any extra software, you can effortlessly upload photographs, audio and videos to the cloud and automate clever transformations of those material using Cloudinary. Cloudinary seamlessly provides your media via a fast content delivery network (CDN) designed according to industry best practices.

In a nutshell, uploading media to the cloud extends the life of an application. It provides a lot of value right out of the box, allowing you to focus on solving complex business logic.

To open visual studio code, navigate to any Directory of your choice on your pc. In the terminal, type:

Create a directory and initialize npm by typing the following command:

Create the necessary files as shown below

We'll install several dependencies like multer, express dotenv cloudinary and development dependency like nodemon to restart the server as we make changes automatically.

Now let's create our NodeJS Server adding the following snippet to our app.js index.js .env,.

In our app.js.

In our index.js.

If you notice, our file has some environment variables. You can create a new .env file if you haven't and add your variable before starting our application.

In our .env.

To start our server, kindly edit the scripts object in our package.json to look like the one shown below and then type the command to start the server safely.

Before we get started with the upload, kindly make sure you have created a Free Cloudinary Account. Then, copy the API KEY, CLOUD NAME, and SECRET on your dashboard because we will be using them shortly.

Add the snippet below to our file app.js for audio upload.

Now Let's test. 👇👇👇

Let's try out the video upload by adding the snippet below:

Result 👇👇👇

We can see how seamless it is to upload audio and video to Cloudinary from our nodeJS application.

Here is a link to the Repository on GitHub

We learned about Cloudinary and how to upload both audio and video to Cloudinary from our NodeJS application.

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