Easy way to access original cloudinay image url?

[andre-brdoch]

Hi guys,

we want to use cloudinary image urls only, since they offer more powerful transformations, and because our frontend is already configured for cloudinary!

However, in the sanity payloads only sanity image urls are included. I read here, how to reconstruct the full cloudinary URL. However, for that an additional request to the asset is required, and overall not very handy if we only want to use cloudinary. Is it somehow possible to directly return the cloudinary url in the payload, or is there any other way to easily access the cloudinary url?

[ontoneio]

@andre-brdoch

Maybe check this piece in the code. As this is where it looks like he is possibly handling the transformation to a Sanity Image asset type.

[andre-brdoch]

@ontoneio Thanks 👌 In the end we modified the plugin a bit to store the full cloudinary path on the asset.

However, the extra request does not seem to be avoidable unfortunately with how images work in Sanity, since they are references and only the ID is accessible without extra request to the full asset. So now we are doing that extra request, which is not so bad since our website is static.