How do I copy an image into a thread?

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It works! The solution is:

  • Open the image in Google Drive, click “share” and set general access to “anyone with the link”
  • Copy the link to the clipboard
  • Extract the file ID:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eU7GZ-Ir6QBDrR4UqFI32AqLjXrFNvLW/view?usp=sharing
    Becomes:
    1eU7GZ-Ir6QBDrR4UqFI32AqLjXrFNvLW
  • Finally, insert the file ID in this link:
    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d/<file ID>
    So in the example above:
    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d/1eU7GZ-Ir6QBDrR4UqFI32AqLjXrFNvLW

You can then paste that into your post.

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Testing.

It worked! Thanks!

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This needs to be pinned in the About This Message Board forum.

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As a google drive user this is a great tip. How’d you reverse engineer it?

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I revers-cough-adapted the instructions from this page:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10311092/displaying-files-e-g-images-stored-in-google-drive-on-a-website/60546272#60546272

The first few replies did not work. But the steps under “Working solution for Workspace (G suite) users in Oct 2024” did.

I’m currently trying to develop a plugin that does the steps for you. Mainly to figure out if I can get AI to do it…