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.
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.
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.
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.
Hi @tanmaykejriwal , thanks for the help… just curious are there any free solution available to upload google drive images to shopify product via csv?
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/
Was going to try some of the apps mentioned here, but realized they’re all paid if you have 1K+ images. Ended up finding a free alternative - PicManager. It works fine. There’s a 1K limit per upload, but you can do multiple passes to upload as many as you need.
