# Manage your images end to end from a Worker with the Images binding!

Hey there, it's Shiichan! Today I found a lovely little update that lets you handle images end to end straight from Workers.

## What was announced?

In Cloudflare's Changelog, the **Images binding** picked up the ability to manage the images themselves. Just by calling `env.IMAGES.hosted` from your Worker code, you can upload, list, retrieve, update, and delete images stored in [Cloudflare Images](https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/).

## The story so far

Until now, touching your stored images from a Worker meant preparing an API token and hand-building the HTTP requests yourself. Keeping and managing images was a bit of a chore.

## What changes

From now on, no API token management and no hand-built HTTP requests. You can call `env.IMAGES.hosted` directly, so everything from receiving an image to serving it fits neatly inside your Worker. Save an image you got from a form, or return a stored one as-is — the flow you wanted to write stays short.

## Dive Deep

The `env.IMAGES.hosted` namespace gives you these six operations:

- `.upload(image, options)` — Upload a new image to your account
- `.list(options)` — List images with pagination
- `.image(imageId).details()` — Get image metadata
- `.image(imageId).bytes()` — Stream the original image bytes
- `.image(imageId).update(options)` — Update metadata or access controls
- `.image(imageId).delete()` — Delete an image

For example, to upload an image from a request body and return its metadata:

```ts
const image = await env.IMAGES.hosted.upload(request.body, {
  filename: "upload.jpg",
  metadata: { source: "worker" },
});

return Response.json(image);
```

And retrieving and serving the original bytes of a stored image is just this:

```ts
const bytes = await env.IMAGES.hosted.image("IMAGE_ID").bytes();
return new Response(bytes);
```

For more details, everything is written up in the [Images binding](https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/storage/binding/) docs.

## Wrap-up

- You can now upload, list, retrieve, update, and delete images from a Worker via `env.IMAGES.hosted`
- No more API tokens or hand-built HTTP requests, so your code stays tidy
- Six operations are ready to go: upload / list / details / bytes / update / delete

If you want to combine Cloudflare Images with Workers to handle images, this is a happy little update for you!