# Can emoji be rendered with absolute URLs?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-emoji-be-rendered-with-absolute-urls/47250>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [13. Juli 2016 um 21:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-emoji-be-rendered-with-absolute-urls/47250 "2016-07-13T21:11:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [13. Juli 2016 um 21:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-emoji-be-rendered-with-absolute-urls/47250/1 "2016-07-13T21:11:02Z")

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We’re using the API to get topic and post content and display it on a different site. Emoji are being rendered as images with relative links, which are obviously not loading from the other site.

I read through a topic about the wordpress plugin where it seems like a change was made to make emoji URLs absolute.

Do we need to set some sort of base URL in the settings?

`<img src="/images/emoji/emoji_one/slight_smile.png?v=2" title=":slight_smile:" class="emoji" alt=":slight_smile:">`

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