How to use Instagram to host your forum photos

[penwash]

In Firefox, right click on the image, select Inspect, then expand the <div> above where the inspect landed you at. Then when you find the link, just right-click and select "Copy Link Address"



That's one quick way to get to the JPG url.

[KrazyIvan]

In Firefox, right click on the image, select Inspect, then expand the <div> above where the inspect landed you at. Then when you find the link, just right-click and select "Copy Link Address"



That's one quick way to get to the JPG url.

This is how it used to work in Chrome but something happened about a year ago, either Chrome changed or Instagram changed when Facebook took over. Now, when you copy the link address in Chrome, it gives you a link something like Google Photos does. It is not a usable link for forum posts. You can use the link in your posts but it will just open the image in a new tab. I just prefer to inline the images in my posts.

For what its worth, the link also helps to upload images to Wordpress but I still like Flickr for hosting on my blog. Uploading uses space on my Wordpress account while inlining them from Flickr saves my Wordpress allotment.

[penwash]

This is how it used to work in Chrome but something happened about a year ago, either Chrome changed or Instagram changed when Facebook took over. Now, when you copy the link address in Chrome, it gives you a link something like Google Photos does. It is not a usable link for forum posts. You can use the link in your posts but it will just open the image in a new tab. I just prefer to inline the images in my posts.

No, the method I gave above will give you an image that can be displayed inline. Here's the proof:

[azkid]

This is how it used to work in Chrome but something happened about a year ago, either Chrome changed or Instagram changed when Facebook took over. Now, when you copy the link address in Chrome, it gives you a link something like Google Photos does. It is not a usable link for forum posts. You can use the link in your posts but it will just open the image in a new tab. I just prefer to inline the images in my posts.

No, the method I gave above will give you an image that can be displayed inline. Here's the proof:

Hm. I see a broken image in Tapatalk and a blank on my browser (both mobile).

Screenshots:

[Chrissy]

Hm. I see a broken image in Tapatalk and a blank on my browser (both mobile).

This thread was originally posted over 3 years ago so maybe things changed since then?

[penwash]

This is how it used to work in Chrome but something happened about a year ago, either Chrome changed or Instagram changed when Facebook took over. Now, when you copy the link address in Chrome, it gives you a link something like Google Photos does. It is not a usable link for forum posts. You can use the link in your posts but it will just open the image in a new tab. I just prefer to inline the images in my posts.

No, the method I gave above will give you an image that can be displayed inline. Here's the proof:

Hm. I see a broken image in Tapatalk and a blank on my browser (both mobile).

Screenshots:

That method seems to no longer works. And I don't have the time to see if there's another way to do this, and now facebook owns Instagram, so who knows what they do to allow/disallow this.