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How do I embed images with a direct link from Dropbox?
Hi,
I would like to share my pictures to forums where pictures are embedded like [img]http://imageurl.jpg[/img].
How to share pictures from Dropbox to the forums like that? I cant find a ...
Hi,
It is super easy to get direct download link of image files that are saved in your Dropbox account. And more importantly they will work with [img] commands used in forums that you mentioned in your question.
Here is the step by step instructions:
1) Copy Dropbox link of the image file that you want to share. (Right click on image file in your Dropbox folder and choose Copy Dropbox Link). You should have something similar to this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tg0cfa565aue4ak/zoo.jpg?dl=0
2) Just delete dl=0 at the end of the link and replace it with raw=1
Now your link that you gonna use should look like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tg0cfa565aue4ak/zoo.jpg?raw=1
Basically, what you are doing by adding the raw=1 to the end of the link is hotlinking it. That's is sharing direct download link to the file. Anyone who clicks on hotlinked file will not see any of the Dropbox frames, logos, etc. It works for any type of file that you share.
And when you use this modified link with [img] commands there should be no problems. I always use Dropbox images on other forums.
Hope it helps!
Hello,
We have a large folder of images I need to link via spreadsheet to upload to our shop website on opencart. I have found instructions about editing the end of links to be ?raw=1 to hotlink, but despite my best efforts the links do not pull through and download from dropbox like they have done with other hotlinks i've made on our site. Here's a screenshot of my spreadsheet; the non-dropbox links have worked but the dropbox ones don't. Any ideas?
Alternatively if anyone has any other solutions please let me know your ideas..
- Rich
Super User II
wigwamtoys wrote:
... the links do not pull through and download from dropbox like they have done with other hotlinks i've made on our site.
All of your links appear to be working just fine, so this isn't a Dropbox issue. The problem is likely in how you're linking them or how your shreadsheet program is handling the links.
I see..strange. When I tested them they worked for me too; the raw image just opening as it should in my browser.
Thanks for the reply :cry: Wonder how i can solve my issue lol
Hi,
Is there an option for uploading images, getting a temporary link that is displayeable on a website?
I noticed that the GetTemporaryUploadLinkResult provides a link that forces the browsers download the image instead of displaying them.
Is there a displayeable alternative that can be called through the API, instead of manually creating links for every image.
Thanks
