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druck0162
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Direct Link To Image or Embed Image - broken

Hello everyone I'm trying to Upload a Picture and create a direct link to embed it on a website.

I've done it before and normally the link looks like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/abc07de134fg78/NameOfThePicture.jpg?dl=0

It was possible to change this link into:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent/s/abc07de134fg78/NameOfThePicture.jpg?dl=0
and it was possible to embed it on a website.

When I try it again with an other Picture the link looks like:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/abcde9fghi7j7kl177m1n/NameOfNewPicture.jpg?dl=0&rlkey=abc5defghijklmnopr1dslo5z

This method does not work anymore.

Any Solutions?

 

 

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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
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    3 years ago

    Hi druck0162, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    In general, we don't recommend changing the URL for shared links directly to have them embedded on a site.

     

    Could you try forcing the file to render by using this method?

     

    Keep me updated with any progress!

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    3 years ago

    Thanks for the info. You can read up more on this change to the shared links from this thread

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
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    3 years ago

    You change the dl=0 to raw=1, like the thread suggested, since it looks like the change has be mad eon the location of the dl=0.

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