# Host images via Google Drive

The other day I was playing around with some image effects and needed a place to serve them from an online place.

Don't get me wrong I know there are many tools and websites to do this for you.
Yet I learned that Google Drive can also be one of these options.

As a person who owns unlimited storage, it was worthwhile giving it a go.

## Hosting public images on Google Drive

So today I'll be showing you how to host images on Google Drive and have them available for everyone.

Firstly open your [Google drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive) and upload an image.

For this purpose, it doesn't matter if it's in a folder or not.

![File uploaded in Google drive](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1620712526448/QYjw87XYA.png)

That's part one, now we can click the picture and select the sharing option.

![Google drive share button](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1620712672796/k_YLwvGAG.png)

I changed the option to everyone with the link just to be on the safe side, you'll get a link like this:

```text
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10YD7sJI_HHDXmQM4h96alvyGIU53nGYZ/view?usp=sharing
```

The part after the /d/ is what we are looking for, as it's the unique ID of the image.

We can copy the unique ID and paste it into the following URL.

```text
https://drive.google.com/uc?id={ID}
```

So in our case, we get a link like this:

```text
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=10YD7sJI_HHDXmQM4h96alvyGIU53nGYZ
```

And we are able to use the image as such:

![Image of yes I do](https://drive.google.com/uc?id=10YD7sJI_HHDXmQM4h96alvyGIU53nGYZ)

And that's it, you're now able to use your Google Drive as a way of hosting images for you.

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