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Forum Discussion
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!
your reply was very helpful thank you!
i revised all the image files i was trying to share with ?raw=1
that fixed my issue for almost all the files, but a handful still won't load on the other end. they get an error - unrecognized image format. meanwhile all the other images upload just fine.
do you have any suggestions?
thank you in advance
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIThat's likely not an error in the image loading on the Dropbox side (test the link manually to see if it loads), but an error with the platform you're using not recognizing a URL unless it ends in a valid image extension. In those cases, there's nothing you can do.
thank you for your prompt reply.
and you're correct. after scanning the thousands of images, i realized a handful did not have image file extensions. doh.
thanks! huge help!
Hi there, sorry to barge into a solved post but I'm having the same issue and raw=1 didn't solve my problem. I did make a thread here but i guess it's really a duplicate issue so I thought I'd ask here too? Trying to hotlink via spreadsheet upload
