Secure file access

Prevent and discourage unauthorized third-party users from accessing or modifying your images.

Restrict file access to authorized users

Watermark image thumbnails and use features like Private images and image signatures to build custom access controls for images in your application.

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Restrict allowed image transformations

Obscure and limit real-time image manipulations that can be performed on your images with just easy to configure dashboard settings.

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Discourage use of URLs on third-party websites

Set your URLs to expire after a certain time to reduce unauthorized hotlinking of your images, just like Facebook and Instagram.

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Code snippets

Easily generate secure URLs

Use ImageKit's server-side SDK for a language or framework of your choice and start generating secure URLs in minutes.

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var imageURL = imagekit.url({
    path : "/default-image.jpg",
    queryParameters : {
        "v" : "123"
    },
    transformation : [{
        "height" : "300",
        "width" : "400"
    }],
    signed : true,
    expireSeconds : 300
});

image_url = imagekit.url({
    "path": "/default-image",
    "query_parameters": {
        "v": "123"
    },
    "transformation": [{
        "height": "300",
        "width": "400"
    }],
    "signed": True,
    "expire_seconds": 300
});

image_url = imagekit.url({
    path: "/default-image",
    query_parameters: {
                "v": "123"
    },
    transformation: [{
        height: "300",
        width: "400"
    }],
    signed: True,
    expire_seconds: 300
})

List<Map<String, String>> transformation=new ArrayList<Map<String, String>>();
Map<String, String> scale=new HashMap<>();
scale.put("height","600");
scale.put("width","400");

transformation.add(format);

Map<String, Object> options=new HashMap();
options.put("path","/default-image.jpg");
options.put("signed",true);
options.put("expireSeconds",300);
String url = ImageKit.getInstance().getUrl(options);

$imageURL = $imageKit->url(array(
    "path" => "/default-image.jpg",
    "queryParameters" => array(
        "v" => "123",
    ),
    "transformation" => array(
        array(
            "height" => "300",
            "width" => "400"
        ),
    ),
    "signed" => true,
    "expireSeconds" => 300,
));

Transformation trans = new Transformation()
    .Height(300).Width(400);
string[] queryParams = { "v=123" };

string imageURL = imagekit.Url(trans)
    .Path("/default-image.jpg")
    .QueryParameters(queryParams)
    .Signed(true).ExpireSeconds(300)
    .Generate();

Example usage

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