# Can external photos be embedded from Drive or Dropbox?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/can-external-photos-be-embedded-from-drive-or-dropbox/55755>\
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**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [September 20, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/can-external-photos-be-embedded-from-drive-or-dropbox/55755 "2024-09-20T23:54:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![bugbaer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bugbaer/32/49657_2.png) [@bugbaer](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bugbaer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/can-external-photos-be-embedded-from-drive-or-dropbox/55755/1 "2024-09-20T23:54:40Z")

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I’m working on a journal post to help people identify caterpillars and want to embed several external photos to illustrate it. I have uploaded the photos to both Google Drive and Dropbox and set the links so they are accessible to anyone:  
Example: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vb29XcYtHZLr2XmtozsnpWQxjtAFIFyL/view?usp=drive\_link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vb29XcYtHZLr2XmtozsnpWQxjtAFIFyL/view?usp=drive_link)

But when I put this in the journal post

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/f/4/f4f71d3c88cc2f4e3720644beac9aba67cdcaa8e.png)

the preview shows

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/9/8/980ed57d7680b5ffe81bb114440c38581d2d72fb.png)

Can I embed the photos using either of these services? I really don’t want to have to make a flickr account or something.

Thanks for any suggestions!

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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/can-external-photos-be-embedded-from-drive-or-dropbox/55755/2 "2024-09-21T00:46:21Z")

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see:

- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photos-in-my-journal-keep-breaking/48831](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photos-in-my-journal-keep-breaking/48831)
- [https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Create-upload-and-share/How-do-I-embed-images-with-a-direct-link-from-Dropbox/td-p/245432](https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Create-upload-and-share/How-do-I-embed-images-with-a-direct-link-from-Dropbox/td-p/245432)

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**Author:** ![bugbaer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bugbaer/32/49657_2.png) [@bugbaer](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bugbaer)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/can-external-photos-be-embedded-from-drive-or-dropbox/55755/3 "2024-09-21T01:17:09Z")

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Thanks! Dropbox worked when I followed their instructions + not putting the URL in quotes.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/can-external-photos-be-embedded-from-drive-or-dropbox/55755/4 "2024-11-20T01:17:25Z")

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