How to generate publically accessible URL of an image file by using Google Drive

Walk through followings:

1. Login to your google account (create if you do not have one)

2. Go to your “Drive” page (click “google apps” – cubic-like image on top right of page)

3. Click “New” button on left > click “File upload”

4. Browse to your image that you want to generate URL for and click “Open”

5. Once your image has been uploaded, right-click your image on google Drive

6. Click “Get shareable link”

7. Set “Link Sharing On” in a pop-up dialog

8. Click “Sharing settings” menu at bottom of the dialog and set your link sharing option to “On - Public on the web”. Click “save”.

9. Copy the link. It should be like: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1IIWsd1LLy8SGpXNWh3bHRoZzQ/view?usp=sharing
   
   

Now, we are going to do a MAGIC.

1. Replace https://drive.google.com/file/d/ with https://drive.google.com/uc?id=

2. Remove /view?usp=sharing

3. Finally, it should be like: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B1IIWsd1LLy8SGpXNWh3bHRoZzQ

4. All done.