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yammineesowri
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8 years ago
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Using Magento 2 to import images and get a timeout or access permissions error

Hi Support,   i want to use my images in other application (Magento 2 import product).   Imported resource (image) could not be downloaded from external resource due to timeout or access perm...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    8 years ago

    All of the share links you posted (the first three are valid) work just fine, so there's no problem with the links themselves. If the link with ?raw=1 does not work within the application, then you'll need to contact Magento Support. My guess is that the application doesn't accept URLs that don't end in a recognizable file extension (.JPG, .PNG, etc.). If that's the case, images from a share link will not work for you. There are no other solutions from Dropbox for such a case.

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Jay
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8 years ago

Thanks for the details. You won't be able to extract the image using that link.

 

However, if you change the dl=0 to raw=1, the image itself will be displayed. Perhaps your Magento program can work with that?

 

This is forcing the file to render online, of which more details can be found here.

 

Hope this helps!

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    Rich
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    8 years ago

    All of the share links you posted (the first three are valid) work just fine, so there's no problem with the links themselves. If the link with ?raw=1 does not work within the application, then you'll need to contact Magento Support. My guess is that the application doesn't accept URLs that don't end in a recognizable file extension (.JPG, .PNG, etc.). If that's the case, images from a share link will not work for you. There are no other solutions from Dropbox for such a case.

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    Jay
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    8 years ago

    If the Magento program can't access the raw=1 link and parse it as the original PNG, then it won't be able to extract the image from Dropbox directly.

    There isn't any workaround for this, since the raw=1 is the only way for images and files in general to be directly viewed in a browser.

    Perhaps you can contact the developers of Magento to see if they have a workaround of their own?

     

    [edit] submitted this after Rich did his own reply, but I'll leave it as it is.

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