Google photo URL do not work in Connect photo upload: please correct the bug

[JeanRV]

Dear all,

When I try to include a photo stored in Google photo in a connect post, for example: https://photos.app.goo.gl/lUzsbgaYhgmZD9LH3

I get the message: "Please input a complete URL"

Is it a connect or a Google photo bug?

Could you correct the issue?

Thanks in advance

[deepakjhic]

Hi @JeanRV,

This issue is like this one. Please confirm if the issue still persist?

[JeanRV]

hello @deepakjhic

Thanks for your reply, my issue may look like the one you mentioned but it is different and it persists;

best regards

[Csaba]

Hi @JeanRV, the URL you get from Google Photos is not the URL of the image itself but that of the html page it is in. In order to get the photo URL the easiest, click on the photo but keep the mouse down and "drag" the photo into a new browser tab. Now you can copy the link from the URL bar of the browser (it's a really long URL, mind you). 

OR: right click on the photo and "Copy image address" (or similar in other browsers - this is in Chrome)

[JeanRV]

Thanks @Csaba for your reply.

I have tried your two suggestions:

• Getting the address of the image via right click

• Or dragging the image in a new tab and copying the adress:

 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sq6spgIUYFplRfDglyyS8QHihrViHEYN1rMwQPzEgMm1LpOSugeUNuJKSZb6BbLNOU...

I get the same adress but connect tells me the URL is incomplete as shown in the screen capture below:

incomplete URL

This does not work on my computer. Are you able to upload photos from Google photo in Connect?

Best regards

[Csaba]

Well, I do not really use this feature but my guess is that you need to share that photo first. Create a shared album and put the photo inside. 

Also the way you are trying is going to download the photo then upload it here. In order to avoid it, you will need to turn the editor into html mode and insert something like this in: 

<img src="your_image_link">

where, of course, you swap that your_image_link to the real URL of your picture.

[JeanRV]

Thanks @Csaba for this new reply.

The photo is already shared, you can see the photo inside an album (https://photos.app.goo.gl/97twzYMT0ZtgDQ5J2) or  either using the direct link: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sq6spgIUYFplRfDglyyS8QHihrViHEYN1rMwQPzEgMm1LpOSugeUNuJKSZb6BbLNOU...

The input from an URL does not seem to work. Give it a try!

best regards

[Csaba]

Hi @JeanRV, to me, the image URl just shows a "do not enter" symbol. Apparently something is wrong with its privacy (publicity) settings. I know @ErmesT used to experiment a lot with this but even he has not come to a final solution. I am on mobile now (cannot even make a line break, sorry) so cannot experiment too much. I think we should ask over the Photos Help Forums.

[ErmesT]

Hi @Csaba and @JeanRV

I am on mobile too, but let say a few things.

The imgurl procedure is correct, and it works

Of course, you have to switch to Html mode for inserting it, as indicated by @Csaba.

For using it with Google photos you have to set the sharing permission of the single photo first (don't ask me why, but as reported, we can see your album with all the photos inside but not the single photo.

To obtain the link, you have to open the photo in Google photo, the right click on it and copy the URL.

Paste the url in the imgurl as indicated

Let me have a feedback

Ermes

[LucioV · Accepted solution]

As they suggested, try to insert it as HTML, as the photos insert plugin in Connect doesn't work well with external urls and will count toward your images limit in Connect!!!

This is an example: 

I suggest you to create a macro for insert image, so will be quicker to share images on connect:

<p><img src="xxxxxx" border="0"></p>