API Overview

Upload API

Key features:

• Direct uploads
• Multipart uploads
• Uploads from URL
• Secure uploads

Upload API powers our File Uploader.

→ Upload API Reference → Upload API clients

REST API

Key features:

• Secure authorization
• File and file groups management
• Uploadcare projects management
• Video encoding and documents conversion
• Object recognition

→ REST API Reference → REST API clients

CDN operations

Key features:

• Works on-the-fly
• Various image resizing methods, including smart crop
• Various image compression methods, including smart compression
• Fine control over colors
• Various image modifications
• File information

Here is the example of using our domain-specific language so you can get the idea right away:

https://ucarecdn.com/[UUID]/-/crop/200x300/center/

https://ucarecdn.com/[UUID]/-/resize/400x/-/effect/grayscale/

→ Image transformations

File Uploader API

This is a set of tools allowing you to adjust our File Uploader behavior and implement advanced workflows like moderating uploaded content or playing with the file uploader appearance. You can also use certain methods of the API without the file uploader, as standalone components.

→ File Uploader API Reference

Versioning

When we introduce backward-incompatible changes into File Uploader and REST API, we release new major versions. Once published, such versions are supported for a limited time period. This section combines versions, their publishing dates, and support terms.

The support length for each new release of Uploadcare File Uploader and REST API is 2 years. The two-year support term for current versions starts when we release the new ones. We will update this document, our changelog, and notify you via email about new releases.

The latest versions are:

• Uploadcare File Uploader: 3.7.7
• REST API: 0.5