How to post photos to DU (Rev. June 2020)

[William Seger]

31. How to get a direct URL for photos on Flickr

When you view a photo on Flickr, there is a "Share Photo" button (an arrow icon) in the lower right. When you click that, there are several options, the first of which is a plain https URL, but it's to a page on Flickr, so it's no use -- that page won't give you a direct link to the image file. But there is also a "BBCode" option for sharing, and when you click that, it gives you a text string with several URLs embedded in tags that are commonly used on forums, such as [img] and [url], but those don't work here. However, the URL between the [img] and [/img] tags is a direct link to an image file, which is what you want here.

So, go to "Share Photo", click on "BBCode", copy the whole string, paste it into a posting box here, and delete everything except the https URL for the .jpg file.