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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 marketplace server can grab images directly from dropbox.
I have tried the "share" and "copy url" way but it doesn't work. Please help!
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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.).
Hi, Thank you for your reply.
How about if I right click on the image and use the "copy image address" function where it would generate link such as below;
Would this work?
Thank you in advance
@Darwin L.1 wrote:
How about if I right click on the image and use the "copy image address" function where it would generate link such as below;
Would this work?
For you only. Anyone else viewing the link will get a 401 error (Unauthorized). Also, you're not generating a link in a supported manner. You're just copying the URL of the generated preview image.
You have to use the Share Link process I described above. There is no other supported method. And remember that Dropbox was not intended to be used as a web host. They even disabled the ability to render HTML files to prevent hostsing entire pages on Dropbox. If image web hosting is what you need, then you should really be using a proper web host that will serve up the raw images without any parameters in the URL.
Hi, I tried your method but it doesn't work still. Please assist.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v2pca6kq8nsqmso/abb5c48dae55560e4ae7d41af7bfdc50.jpg?raw=1
Thank you.
That link works fine.
If the link isn't working on whatever platform you're trying to use it on, they they likely don't support URLs that don't end in a proper image extention. In such cases you won't be able to use Dropbox to host the image.
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