Google Photos Direct Link Trick: Get Faster Downloads and More

Direct links to Google Photos provide direct access to specific photos without going through their website or app, providing faster downloads, more control over how you share photos, embedding into websites, blog posts, emails or social media sharing and embedding images directly in websites, blog posts or emails.

Benefits of Linking Directly to Google Photos

Utilizing direct links to Google Photos offers many advantages:

• Faster downloads: When downloading photos from Google Photos via either its website or app, first they're routed directly onto Google's servers before being transferred directly onto your device. Downloading multiple photos at once from Google Photos servers to your device may take longer. By using direct links instead, images can be downloaded much more quickly from their servers to your device.
• Reinforcing how you share photos: When sharing Google Photos with someone, you are effectively giving them access to your Google Photos - meaning they can view pictures if they were explicitly shared. Direct links allow you to share individual photos without giving access to all your Google Photos.
• Embedding Photos in Websites and Blog Posts If you want to embed Google Photos directly, using direct links is necessary so that it can show you image not the google photos page.

permalinkHow to get a shared url of a Google Photo

To get a share link to a Google Photo:

Using the Google Photos website or app:

• Go to Google Photos.
• Find the photo you want to get a direct link to.
• Click the share button icon pointed to red in the above screenshot.

• Select "Create link " button. A new popup will appear, click the button again. It will generate the Url . Copy the URL.

• Copy the link and paste it into the Text box here Unlimited Google Photos Direct Url Generator

permalinkGenerating the Direct and Permanent Link of your Google Photos

There is very less or almost no tools to find out the real URL of any Google Photos, that can give you a Direct Link to the Google Photos which are also permanently valid.

By default, the URL that you get for your Google Photos expires after some days, but when we have to use it on our blog, website, email, etc it should not expire else Google will show a 404 error for that link. This is definitely not good from the SEO perspective.

Luckily we have Free and Professional Tools to help us with this. It is Free and Unlimited. You can use it an unlimited number of times and get the direct link to one or even more than one image at the same time. So no need to waste your time.

Steps:

1. Go to https://rojuka.com/tools/google-photos and paste your Google photos URLs as many as you want.

1. Click the Get Permanent Google Photos URL button to generate the direct URL. This will one or two seconds and you are done.
2. It will show you the converted direct URL of photos that you can copy by clicking that copy button pointed by the red arrow. One good thing to note is, you can also get the real embed link as well from there.

permalinkGoogle Photos Tricks, to make your self Google Photos Pro.

Google Photos is immensely powerful, and if you are using some paid services like Cloudinary, etc for your personal website, blog, etc then you you these tricks to dynamically generate as many images of different sizes as you need without losing your Google Photos storage.

Here is a list of Google Photos URL parameters:

• size=width_in_pixels*height_in_pixels - Specifies the width and height of the downloaded photo. For example, to download a photo with a width of 1024 pixels and a height of 768 pixels, you would use the following parameter: ?size=1024*768
• originalsize - Downloads the photo in its original size.
• thumbnail - Creates a thumbnail of the photo.
• token=token - Specifies a token that is required to download or view a private photo.
• key=key - Specifies a key that is required to download or view a photo that is shared with a specific audience.
• crop: Specify a cropping rectangle for the photo. The rectangle is specified as a string in the format x,y,w,h, where x and y are the coordinates of the top-left corner of the rectangle and w and h are the width and height of the rectangle in pixels.

You can use multiple parameters in the same URL. For example, to download a photo with a width of 1024 pixels and a height of 768 pixels as a thumbnail, you would use the following parameter: ?size=1024*768&thumbnail

Here are some examples of Google Photos URLs:

• This URL will take you to the Google Photos page for the photo with the ID 1234567890.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipML1234567890/photo/AF1QipMJhkl1234567890

• This URL will download the photo with the ID 1234567890 with a width of 1024 pixels and a height of 768 pixels.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipML1234567890/photo/AF1QipMJhkl1234567890?size=1024*768

• This URL will download the photo with the ID 1234567890 in its original size.

 https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipML1234567890/photo/AF1QipMJhkl1234567890?originalsize

• This URL will create a thumbnail of the photo with the ID 1234567890.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipML1234567890/photo/AF1QipMJhkl1234567890?thumbnail

• This link will download the photo with the ID 1234567890 cropped to a rectangle with the top-left corner at (100, 100) and the width and height of 200 pixels.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipML1234567890/photo/AF1QipMJhkl1234567890?crop=100,100,200,200 

I hope this article has a positive use in your daily life. Tell us below how you are using google photos in your life.