diff --git a/ImageQ/processor/base.py b/ImageQ/processor/base.py
index cb0c5ac..b303376 100644
--- a/ImageQ/processor/base.py
+++ b/ImageQ/processor/base.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 import requests
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
-from ImageQ.processor.consts import FS, IMAGE_TYPES, SEARCH_QUERY
+from ImageQ.processor.consts import FS, IMAGE_TYPES, SEARCH_QUERY, HEADERS
 from ImageQ.search.models import Prediction
 
 
@@ -122,13 +122,8 @@ def get_source(url):
         import requests
         # headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0'}
         # prevent caching
-        headers = {
-            "Cache-Control": 'no-cache',
-            "Connection": "keep-alive",
-            "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.121 Safari/537.36"
-        }
         try:
-            response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
+            response = requests.get(url, headers=HEADERS)
             html = response.text
         except Exception as e:
             raise Exception('ERROR: {}\n'.format(e))
@@ -186,7 +181,7 @@ def predict(self):
         """
         files = {'image': open(self.image_path, 'rb')}
         if not isinstance(self.prediction_api, type(None)):
-            r = requests.post(self.prediction_api, files=files)
+            r = requests.post(self.prediction_api, files=files, headers=HEADERS)
         else:
             raise AttributeError("Attribute <prediction_api> is of type None")
         return r.content
diff --git a/ImageQ/processor/consts.py b/ImageQ/processor/consts.py
index 783018d..3a828bb 100644
--- a/ImageQ/processor/consts.py
+++ b/ImageQ/processor/consts.py
@@ -164,4 +164,10 @@ def listdir(path: str, exclude= None,
     "Yahoo": 'https://search.yahoo.com/search?p={}&b={}',
     "Bing": 'https://www.bing.com/search?q={}&count=10&offset=0&first={}',
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
+
+HEADERS = {
+            "Cache-Control": 'no-cache',
+            "Connection": "keep-alive",
+            "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.121 Safari/537.36"
+        }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ImageQ/search/forms.py b/ImageQ/search/forms.py
index 7a96bdc..aa230b0 100644
--- a/ImageQ/search/forms.py
+++ b/ImageQ/search/forms.py
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ def predict(self):
         try:
             _predictions = json.loads(bytes.decode(urlpredictor.predict()))
         except:
+            print("failed to retrieve prediction from API, using dummy")
             _predictions = {
         "predictions": [
             {
diff --git a/ImageQ/settings/common.py b/ImageQ/settings/common.py
index b99446f..0005411 100644
--- a/ImageQ/settings/common.py
+++ b/ImageQ/settings/common.py
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
     'django.contrib.sessions',
     'django.contrib.messages',
     'django.contrib.staticfiles',
+    'cloudinary_storage',
+    'cloudinary',
     'ImageQ.search',
 ]
 
@@ -129,6 +131,7 @@
 MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
 MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
 
+
 # Extra places for collectstatic to find static files.
 STATICFILES_DIRS = (
     os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
diff --git a/ImageQ/settings/production.py b/ImageQ/settings/production.py
index 813e92b..0c88e00 100644
--- a/ImageQ/settings/production.py
+++ b/ImageQ/settings/production.py
@@ -19,4 +19,7 @@
     'default': dj_database_url.parse(DATABASE_URL)
 }
 
-PREDICTION_API = "172.104.78.30/predict"
\ No newline at end of file
+PREDICTION_API = "http://172.104.78.30/predict"
+
+# cloudinary media storage
+DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'cloudinary_storage.storage.MediaCloudinaryStorage'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9fcf048..d10ad00 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Click==7.0
 cryptography==2.5
 dj-database-url==0.5.0
 Django==2.1.5
+django-cloudinary-storage==0.2.3
 docutils==0.14
 first==2.0.1
 Flask==1.0.2