# Event image URL

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-image-evenement/405167
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** events
**Created:** [June 12, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-image-evenement/405167 "2026-06-12T13:15:45Z")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2026, 9:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-image-evenement/405167/5 "2026-06-13T09:11:57Z")

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This is called hotlinking and generally considered bad practice as you are essentially stealing someone else’s bandwidth who is hosting the image. (And you have no control over the length of time the image is hosted)

However, there’s a good case for downloading the image of the URL you supply …

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