Collect images from Unsplash, then upload them to Cloudinary

01-unsplash.js

// Run this 1st:
// - Create a file locally such as unsplash.js
// - Paste the contents of this file
// - Update your Unsplash access key from https://unsplash.com/developers
// - Run `node unsplash.js`

import { createApi } from 'unsplash-js';
import { promises as fs } from 'fs';

const unsplash = createApi({ accessKey: '<Your Unsplash Access Key>' });

const totalImages = 1200;
const imagesPerPage = 30;
const pages = totalImages / imagesPerPage

const photos = [];

for ( let i = 0; i < pages; i++ ) {
  const { response } = await unsplash.photos.list({
    perPage: imagesPerPage,
    page: i + 1
  });
  photos.push(...response.results);
  await fs.writeFile('./photos.json', JSON.stringify(photos));
  await new Promise((resolve) => {
    setTimeout(() => resolve(), 500);
  })
}

console.log('Image metadata saved to photos.json');

02-cloudinary.js

// Run this 2nd
// - Create a file locally such as cloudinary.js
// - Paste the contents of this file
// - Update your Cloudinary credentials from https://console.cloudinary.com/console/
// - Update the folder value or remove the property definition if uploading to root
// - Run `node cloudinary.js`

import { v2 as cloudinary } from 'cloudinary';
import photos from './photos.json' assert { type: 'json' };

cloudinary.config({
  cloud_name: '<Your Cloudinary Cloud Name>',
  api_key: '<Your Cloudinary API Key>',
  api_secret: '<Your Cloudinary API Secret>',
})

for ( let i = 0; i < photos.length; i++ ) {
  await cloudinary.uploader.upload(photos[i].links.download, {
    folder: '<Your Folder>'
  });

  await new Promise((resolve) => {
    setTimeout(() => resolve(), 500);
  })
}