# Cloudinary Fetch

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/cloudinary-fetch/32678>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [October 5, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cloudinary-fetch/32678 "2021-10-05T10:42:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rayo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rayo/32/91372_2.png) [@rayo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/rayo)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cloudinary-fetch/32678/1 "2021-10-05T10:42:04Z")

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What stops anyone using your cloudinary credits to fetch and transform images?

are there alternatives to cloudinary?

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cloudinary-fetch/32678/2 "2021-10-05T13:03:16Z")

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> [@rayo](#):
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> What stops anyone using your cloudinary credits to fetch and transform images?

Nothing, if you give people your credentials. But why would you do that?  
Cloudinary does provide a number of options for securing your account. Look under Settings → Security.

> [@rayo](#):
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> are there alternatives to cloudinary?

I imagine so. What is it that Cloudinary doesn’t do that has you looking for alternatives?

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**Author:** ![rayo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rayo/32/91372_2.png) [@rayo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/rayo)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cloudinary-fetch/32678/3 "2021-10-05T13:09:11Z")

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Thank you Darren as usual ! your help is so highly apperciated.

I was wondering people don’t need to know my credentials if they only use my cloudinary ID they can construct a URL to fetch images online and use my credit… will dig deeper into the security options to find out how to stop that from happening.

I was just wondering on what other good alternatives there are to check out (i doubt there is anything they do that cloudinary cannot)

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cloudinary-fetch/32678/4 "2021-10-05T13:20:46Z")

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> [@rayo](#):
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> I was wondering people don’t need to know my credentials if they only use my cloudinary ID they can construct a URL to fetch images online and use my credit… will dig deeper into the security options to find out how to stop that from happening.

Yes, your Cloudinary ID (cloud name) is what’s needed to access the Transformation URL API. You should never give that to anyone. If you already have given it out or shared it, then it is possible to change it. (Google will tell you how).

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cloudinary-fetch/32678/5 "2021-10-05T13:47:49Z")

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To go into more specific details about what Darren said, you can find these settings under Settings \> Security.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/4/2/42ddba02b5e7c3a4863c6300797739eecbba2c3a.png)

Only allow certain domains to fetch using your account.

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/cloudinary-fetch/32678/6 "2021-10-05T16:34:05Z")

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[imagekit.io](http://imagekit.io) and [imgix.com](http://imgix.com) are the alternatives that I know of. What I like about both of these alternatives is that you can leverage the contructURL column in Glide. Can’t really use Construct URL with cloudinary because of the way the parameters are crafted.