mhcas.blogg.se - View google drive online

Here is a video that shows all of the steps. Some of the previous users were close, but they were missing a step here or there. We might find a solution to this in the future like providing a permanent URL that will redirect to these changing URL but no promises. The problem is that this link has a limited time to live, so it will work for a little while and then stop working.īasically the URL of the image file stored in Drive should be accessible without any authentication once it has been set shared publicly but that URL is going to change at some point.

You can also easily get a link to the image manually by right clicking on the image in the Google Drive default image viewer. Then you can get the URL to the image programmatically by either using the Google Document List API or using the Google Drive API (i.e.

You can do that programmatically using the Google Document List API, or manually through the "Share" button on the Drive image viewer. What you have to do is set the Access Control List of the file to Public Read-Only (or Public Read/Write). I think it is possible but only for a short time Note: An alternative to the procedure above, is uploading the file with an extension that Google Drive cannot open/is not associated.

Right click on the file and select "Details".

right click on the file in question and select "Open with>Manage apps":.

That is, clicking on " Details" won't show an Google-drive url. One limitation is that as far as HTTP goes, only secure HTTP access seems to be possible.Īnother limitation is that files which Google drive can open, won't be accessible that way. Copy and paste the url and share or embed it anywhere you like.

Drag and Drop that url into a new tab.

One of the lines in the Details-Fieldset reads "Hosting".

4 Right click on the file and select Details.

3 Drag and Drop a file into the folder, and let it upload.

2 Select that folder, right click and Share > Share.

Here's the final update from Google with alternatives.Īs per April 2013 and using Chrome/webkit, the following worked for me: UPDATE: As was announced, Google deprecated this feature in Aug 2016.