Unable to embed images in the body of Gmail. Even with a direct URL, the images won't show.

Hey there,

I’ve tried all the advice available on this community to embed an image in the body of email in Gmail but still, the image is not appearing.

I’ve tryied with direct URL, or creating a step with Find a File in Google Drive … nothing works …

I’ve a rectangle with the name of the file, but the file is not appearing …

I’ve obviously the availability of the file, and it is oppened

HELP PLEASE

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Hi @De.Suzax

Good question.

Please post detailed screenshots with how your Zap steps are configured to help give us more context.

Hey Troy,

Thanks for help.

Here it is (the idea is to send the results of a typeform with a chart in a personnalized email) :

the steps :

the actions to embed the visual within the mail !

I also tried with the URL from Google drive directly, and even a canva URL ..

Every time, I’m receiving this message :

Thank you so much in advance for your help on this ! It’s driving me crazy :)

@De.Suzax

The image link needs to be a public direct download link.

You can check this by copy/paste the url into a browser, which should start a direct download of the file immediately.

Help topic:

Thanks for your feedback but actually, I’ve tried.

Here are my attempt :

the code :

the result :

thank you so much for your help

@De.Suzax

It was missing the first “ after the src=

Try this code:

<img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=11XwOqsG4GVmowdmbHbMQ_kRpCWy70hHp" width="500" height="150">

OMG it works ! thank you so much !!!!!!!!!!!

I deeply appreciate your efforts to find the solution <3

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