
By Brian Yao
Tencent COS provider for Strapi
released April 28, 2026
npm install strapi-provider-upload-tencent-cloud-storageCompatible with Strapi v4 and v5.
# using yarn
yarn add strapi-provider-upload-tencent-cloud-storage
# using npm
npm install strapi-provider-upload-tencent-cloud-storage --saveprovider defines the name of the provider
providerOptions is passed down during the construction of the provider. It contains the following properties:
SecretId / SecretKey: Tencent Cloud API credentials. Required unless you provide initOptions.getAuthorization (see Temporary credentials below).Region: Tencent Cloud COS region (e.g. ap-shanghai).Bucket: Tencent Cloud COS bucket name (e.g. mybucket-1250000000).ACL: (optional) "private" to keep the bucket private and serve files via signed URLs, or "default" (default) to use the bucket's own ACL.Expires: (optional) Expiration time of generated signed URLs, in seconds. Default 360 (6 minutes).initOptions: (optional) Forwarded to the COS SDK constructor. See the full list of COS init options. Use this to configure getAuthorization, custom Domain, etc.uploadOptions: (optional) Forwarded to cos.putObject. See the full list of putObject options. Bucket, Region, Key, Body and ContentType are managed by the provider and cannot be overridden.CDNDomain: (optional) CDN domain used to compose the public file URL. Both cdn.example.com and https://cdn.example.com are accepted; https:// is added if no scheme is present, and trailing slashes are stripped.StorageRootPath: (optional) Prefix inside the bucket. Trailing slashes are stripped automatically.See the documentation about using a provider for information on installing and using a provider. To understand how environment variables are used in Strapi, please refer to the documentation about environment variables.
./config/plugins.js or ./config/plugins.ts for TypeScript projects:
module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
// ...
upload: {
config: {
provider: "strapi-provider-upload-tencent-cloud-storage",
providerOptions: {
SecretId: env("COS_SECRET_ID"),
SecretKey: env("COS_SECRET_KEY"),
Region: env("COS_REGION"),
Bucket: env("COS_BUCKET"),
},
},
},
// ...
});If your bucket is configured to be private, you will need to set the ACL option to private in providerOptions. This will ensure file URLs are signed.
Note: When ACL is "private", signed URLs are generated against the COS bucket domain — CDNDomain is not used for signing (CDN authentication is a separate Tencent Cloud mechanism). Configuring both ACL: "private" and CDNDomain is not recommended.
You can also define the expiration time of the signed URL by setting the Expires option in the providerOptions object. The default value is 360 seconds (6 minutes).
./config/plugins.js or ./config/plugins.ts for TypeScript projects:
module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
// ...
upload: {
config: {
provider: "strapi-provider-upload-tencent-cloud-storage",
providerOptions: {
SecretId: env("COS_SECRET_ID"),
SecretKey: env("COS_SECRET_KEY"),
Region: env("COS_REGION"),
Bucket: env("COS_BUCKET"),
ACL: "private", // <= set ACL to private
},
},
},
// ...
});Due to the default settings in the Strapi Security Middleware you will need to modify the contentSecurityPolicy settings to properly see thumbnail previews in the Media Library. You should replace strapi::security string with the object bellow instead as explained in the middleware configuration documentation.
./config/middlewares.js or ./config/middlewares.ts for TypeScript projects:
module.exports = [
// ...
{
name: "strapi::security",
config: {
contentSecurityPolicy: {
useDefaults: true,
directives: {
"connect-src": ["'self'", "https:"],
"img-src": [
"'self'",
"data:",
"blob:",
"market-assets.strapi.io",
"yourBucketName.cos.yourRegion.myqcloud.com",
],
"media-src": [
"'self'",
"data:",
"blob:",
"market-assets.strapi.io",
"yourBucketName.cos.yourRegion.myqcloud.com",
],
upgradeInsecureRequests: null,
},
},
},
},
// ...
];./config/plugins.js or ./config/plugins.ts for TypeScript projects:
module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
// ...
upload: {
config: {
provider: "strapi-provider-upload-tencent-cloud-storage",
providerOptions: {
CDNDomain: "example-cdn-domain.com", // <= CDN Accelerated Domain
SecretId: env("COS_SECRET_ID"),
SecretKey: env("COS_SECRET_KEY"),
Region: env("COS_REGION"),
Bucket: env("COS_BUCKET"),
},
},
},
// ...
});The CDN domain may be passed with or without a scheme — cdn.example.com, https://cdn.example.com and https://cdn.example.com/ all produce the same https://cdn.example.com/<key> URL.
Use StorageRootPath to scope uploads to a sub-path inside the bucket — useful when several Strapi projects share one bucket.
providerOptions: {
// ...
StorageRootPath: "my-strapi-app/uploads",
},The provider stores files under <StorageRootPath>/<file.path>/<hash><ext>. Trailing slashes on StorageRootPath are stripped automatically.
getAuthorization)Instead of static SecretId / SecretKey, you can let the COS SDK fetch a temporary token via the getAuthorization callback. Pass the function through initOptions:
providerOptions: {
Region: env("COS_REGION"),
Bucket: env("COS_BUCKET"),
initOptions: {
getAuthorization: (options, callback) => {
// Call your STS endpoint and invoke callback({ TmpSecretId, TmpSecretKey, SecurityToken, ... })
},
},
},When getAuthorization is provided, SecretId and SecretKey are not required.
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