Getting Started

This is the guide you need to get started with ImageBoss.

Integration Guide


1) Create an account

First things first, make sure you have an account. You have a 10 days free trial. After your trial period your usage will restart 😊.


2) Add your Image Sources

ImageBoss needs to understand how to reach your images. The following steps will guide you through how can you connect your images in case they are not publicly available or if they are already available on the Internet.


Are Your Images Publicly Available or on a cloud provider?

If that's your case, you are almost set!

For images already hosted on the Internet or popular storage providers like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, or Azure File Share. Just go to your Sources -> Add Source -> Pick Source type that suits your needs.


What if my images are only available via localhost for now?

If your images are not acessible via Internet, only via localhost, you need to set up a tunnel using a service like Ngrok (It's free!) for example. That's the only way ImageBoss can reach your images and manipulate them for you.

After setting up Ngrok, you will get a URL like http://123456.ngrok.io which will proxy the traffic to your http://localhost. With this, just setup a Source of type Web Proxy and now ImageBoss can reach your images 🥳.


Now that you have your image Source working, each Source have its own ImageBoss URL Prefix.
For example, if you called your source "mywebsite-images", your images URL will be: https://img.imageboss.me/mywebsite-images.


3) How do you want to Integrate with ImageBoss?

Life is too short, give me some libraries!

Check out our Integrations page and have fun!


I don't want to use libraries!

In theory, to be able to use ImageBoss with you images it's only string interpolation. You just need to change your current URL a little bit.

If your image url at the moment is /images/photo.jpg. Now you can just change it to:

https://img.imageboss.me /mywebsite-images /cover /500x500 /format:auto /images/photo.jpg



As you can see, all you need is to connect your source add some parameters prior to your image path.


How does the URL Syntax Works?

This is how a ImageBoss URL is structured:

https://img.imageboss.me /:source /:operation /:dimensions /:options /images/img01.jpg


Explanation
  • :source this is the name of the source you added on your dashboard.
  • :operation is the main manipulation you want to do with your image.
  • :dimensions this is where you tell us the size of the generated image.
  • :options This is optional. Only use this section if the :operation you're using supports it. You can combine multiple options using commas.

That's it!