Google+ Photos was a default for many of us with Android and Auto-Backup turned on… all your photos end up in one place online, free storage, etc etc… I’ve been in the habit of opening them on the Google page, and dragging the photo into Discourse. The photo URL used to look something like this:
This will not onebox, as it’s not “.jpg” . I have no idea how to extract the raw jpg location from that string. It appears to be a completely different storage location and id, and contains photo size information at the end.
Can someone smarter than me please look into adding/fixing this?
This is obtained by right clicking on the image and selecting “Copy image URL”
Raw image
Not sure I’d trust this to continue working in the future - no indications that this is a permalink. Guess it might be removed / moved in Google’s delivery network.
Thank link doesn’t seem to work for me, can you paste a working version in Generate Responsive Embed Codes via Iframely to see if it is even supported? (particularly for gallery versions)
It does work if you whitelist goo.gl. Also if you share a photo from Google Photos it generates a special goo.gl link (similar to the maps specific one) that’s just for photos. So it’s not a standard shortened link. On my site I white-listed goo.gl and if you post this link it puts the photo in.
Only problem is that portrait mode photos are cut-off. But I think that’s something wrong on Google’s end.
See this:
That photo should look like this, but it’s only showing the top part.
We covered this in another topic, the pain here is that our “onebox any image” code depends on file extension instead of doing a HEAD/GET and pulling out the mime type.
I think we should just bite the bullet here and look at mime types cause it cleans up a bunch of places where this is the case.
