Add Image to GitHub Readme.md from Google Drive

Question

I have the image in Drive, How could it be added to the Readme.md so as to display the image in readme. I had tried with the shared link, but it isn't working.

Quiver

Possible Duplicate of https://mcmap.net/q/40393/-how-to-add-images-to-readme-md-on-github – Short

But, neither of them seems working in the case of Google Drive Images since the absolute URLs aren't available. – Quiver

Answer 1

For example, I have a.jpg on the google drive.

1. Right click the image and click Share...

2. Click Advanced and change the Who can access option to Public on the web - Anyone on the Internet

3. Copy the link to share and you will have something like

   https://drive.google.com/file/d/<FILE_ID>/view?usp=sharing

4. Copy the <FILE_ID> to make a link like this:

   https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=<FILE_ID>

5. Insert image in Markdown as ususal using the link from step 4.
   For example: ![image](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=<FILE_ID>)

Example: I have this octocat image in google, and its file id is 1913oZeBZPBNiUuk8gu3ZSbLBA2l_VQtG. You can try ![image](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1913oZeBZPBNiUuk8gu3ZSbLBA2l_VQtG) in your markdown file or even in this answer.

Hope this helps.

Pollster

Works on a desktop, but not on iOS unfortunately, don't know why but even Octocat image from the response is not visible on iOS. Does anybody has a solution? – Stalingrad

great, works with gifs too. !Alt Text – Honey

It works with your ID but not with my IDs. I have try with different link it simple do not work – Quirk

Answer 2

How to insert an Image in a github-flavoured markdown format and be able to adjust its size

1. Upload the image image.jpg to your Google Drive
2. Click the get link button at the top right corner

3. Change the permission type to Anyone with the link

4. Copy (to clipboard) only the file ID <FILEID> from the full link as shown (highlighted in blue) and click Done. At the time of writing the shareable link takes the form:

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

5. Insert Image in markdown using the copied file id <FILEID> and anchor tag as shown:

<a href="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=<FILEID>"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=<FILEID>" style="width: 650px; max-width: 100%; height: auto" title="Click to enlarge picture" />

Note that the brackets '<' and '>' are not to be present with the file ID. The size of the image can be adjusted in the style attribute by adjusting the width and the height as needed. Clicking the rendered image will open it to its original size

Eohippus

Followed these steps, still not working for me. Any tips? – Hexyl

Answer 3

The working format after Google changed the URL format. You need to get the image URL by getting the link after setting 'Anyone with the link' option.

![Example Image](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1A1cNS98neP17g3jkpcbDGlrRik1QNNbm)

You need to provide the image id you're trying to embed as in the template format below.

![Example Image](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=<YOUR_IMAGE_ID>)

Polygynous

Answer 4

If you could not access any solution you can kind of use brute force:

1. Open developer console - use Option + ⌘ + J (on macOS), or Shift + CTRL + J (on Windows/Linux).
2. Click Ctrl + Shift + C to access the hover effect and click over the image.
3. The url of the image will appear, click to open into another screen or copy the link
4. Add the link to your .md file: ![Alt text](<the link of the image>)

Galvano