imagekit used with external storage - how to disable some random number (t=xxxxxxx) at the end of the url

Question

I have linked my serve with imagekit as CDN, fetching imageing from Digitalocean storage space: as per the blog - Optimize and resize images in DigitalOcean Spaces in real-time with ImageKit - This all works fine.

Now when I open html page: imagekit seems to be attaching some random number t=xxxxx at the end of the link

imagekit-digitaloceanbucket/static/flora_title/Anacardiaceae_Buchanania%20cochinchinensis_1_Title1.JPG?t=1640178053

apparent reason is: to clear browser cache as per this thread

This additional tag is preventing adding any url based query parameters to transform image: link

expected url with transformation = '/demo/medium_cafe_B1iTdD0C.jpg?tr=w-200,h-200'

actual url with tranformation = '/demo/medium_cafe_B1iTdD0C.jpg?t=12345678?tr=w-200,h-200' (this does not work)

Question is how to remove this tag getting appended to the url

1: look like they also add such tag to images in Media library and that could be disabled

but how to do disable it when imagekit is used with some external storage?

Answer 1

I could figures this out now: this timestamp was getting generated within my code. setting app.config['CDN_TIMESTAMP'] = False, solved this. Thanks to this link