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Darwin L.1
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

How to create Dropbox Image URL for hosting purposes.

Hi, basically I am trying to mass upload product images to various marketplace platforms. So, I'd like to know the right way on how to generate the link to those particular images so that the marketp...
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  • Lusil's avatar
    Lusil
    6 years ago
     
    If you’re trying to create a separate shared link for each image and mass upload them in one go, this isn’t currently an option. 
     
    Instead, you could create a shared link to the folder that has these images with the following steps:
    1. Sign in to the website.
    2. Hover over the folder you'd like to share.
    3. Click the Share button that should appear on the right-hand side of the folder.
    4. On the pop-up window, select Create a link.
    5. Click on Copy link. The link will be copied to your clipboard. 
    6. You can then paste it to an email, message, and so on, for people to access it and view the contents.
    Let me know if you have any other questions!
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Lusil
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If you’re trying to create a separate shared link for each image and mass upload them in one go, this isn’t currently an option. 
 
Instead, you could create a shared link to the folder that has these images with the following steps:
  1. Sign in to the website.
  2. Hover over the folder you'd like to share.
  3. Click the Share button that should appear on the right-hand side of the folder.
  4. On the pop-up window, select Create a link.
  5. Click on Copy link. The link will be copied to your clipboard. 
  6. You can then paste it to an email, message, and so on, for people to access it and view the contents.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
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Rich
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6 years ago

For the hosting of an image, the information above is incomplete.

A share link to a file will open in the Dropbox preview page. Using those links in an <img> tag will result in broken imaged. You need to change the ?dl=0 at the end of the link to ?raw=1. Just know that some platforms will still reject such links because they're expecting a URL that ends in a valid image extension (jpg, gif, png, etc.).

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