How to upload product pictures from Google Drive?

[Lou-adrien]

Hello, would anyone have figured out how to have product picture image upload by url work with google drive? I cannot make it work for the life of me.

The following image is set to be publicly available : 

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=11WjAzXcnPGOBg9_2ARAVQD1-EWV9rJd8

When opened in incognito mode, it redirects to a final URL (which is temporary, please try it yourself to get a new one). At the time of writting the final URL is : https://doc-0s-9g-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/mc1oiajs...

This url is a fully public image, without redirection, and served with the correct content type as any webserver would serve image assets. However, using the product image uploader will fail with the message : 

Would anyone have found a way to make google drive images work for product image?

Alternatively, could anyone recommend a good image hosting solution that would allow direct upload of a folder structure without having to set the sharing settings for each files individually, I am dealing 1000+ images that would be extremely inconvenient.

Thanks a lot in advance,

[jtdesign]

Hey there, 

Looks like we're in the same boat - I've been forever looking to integrate Google Drive images as we're using this solution for sharing among our teams. 

If you find something I'd be glad to know - We're for now using some automation to upload final edits to an ftp where I can use the url. 

Would love to bypass that step though. 

Cheers

[edjusted]

Figured it out! You have to use the link as if you're going to *download*, not *view* the file.

You want to convert this:

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/(a bunch of letters and numbers)/view?usp=drivesdk

To this:

 https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=no_antivirus&id=(a bunch of letters and numbers)

[andrejhocevar]

That's right! For anyone having the same problem, @edjusted's solution still works. However, depending on how you get your link in the first place (might be from the web version of Drive or – in my case – Drive File Stream), the exact URL might be a bit different. You just need to identify the correct ID.

For example, change 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/…

or

https://drive.google.com/open?id=…

 to

https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=no_antivirus&id=

Then delete everything after the file ID (e.g., “/view?usp=sharing” or “&authuser=…&usp=drive_fs”) so your final URL ends with just the ID. 

[Mikel_fern]

Hello,

same problem here,

Have this link from google drive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1otkaFSTwJ8iDW9kncewuVNzcyujmavex/view?usp=sharing

but when trying to upload in shopify don't funx.

tried the solution to this:

https://drive.google.com/1otkaFSTwJ8iDW9kncewuVNzcyujmavex&id=

Getting error: 

If someone find the solution please share

Thank you

[Mikel_fern]

After reading again the posts of Edjusted and Andrejhocevar

The solution:

copy the link (google drive image)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/kaFSTwJ8iDW9kncewuVNzcyujmavex/view?usp=sharing

 use only the bunch of letters and numbers after ("file/d/")

base url:

https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=no_antivirus&id=

insert the bunch of letters in the base url and past this into shopify:

https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=no_antivirus&id=kaFSTwJ8iDW9kncewuVNzcyujmavex

Hope this can help someone

[Twoodlepip]

Does this still work do you know? I just tried it but no joy..

[kapdakhoj]

Hi @edjusted , it seems to be working in browser but don't find a way to make it work in the product upload section (specifically pasting URL)

Can anyone please help here? Any kind of help would  appreciated.

Thanks!

[tanmaykejriwal]

Hi You can use this app and it lets you import from any social drives
https://apps.shopify.com/compress-files?search_id=2a5f2288-56b8-4730-8a24-a30a4bb128c5&surface_detai...

[kapdakhoj]

Hi @tanmaykejriwal , thanks for the help... just curious are there any free solution available to upload google drive images to shopify product via csv?

[tanmaykejriwal]

Can you elaborate more wym by csv and google drive ?

[Camelback]

Very good. Another helpful tool for this process is this Google Drive add on called Google Drive Direct.   https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/

It let's you select a folder on Google Drive and create a table of every document in a file as downloadable URLs!! This way, you can easily create a spreadsheet of all the download links for a Google Drive folder full of a thousand images. From here you can more easily copy paste them into a product bulk import spreadsheet.  I haven't done it yet, but it looks like it'll work. Good luck https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/

[kgrammer]

I realize this is an older post, but for anyone else dealing with this issue, have a look at https://bucketlynx.com.  We offer product image file hosting as well as an auto-population feature that can be used to get your product image file URL links automatically added to your bulk upload template files.  We can't say that you won't have to adjust your folder layouts since we work in single-level buckets, but BucketLynx is worth a look.

[tanmaykejriwal]

Here is the solution to your problem 

https://apps.shopify.com/compress-files?

[movsumov]

You can use the Smart Image Upload app. 

https://apps.shopify.com/smart-image-upload 

[Harald81]

Nice tool. but is more expensive as the whole Shopify Shop