How to use Google Drive as a free web server for your blog's Images and generate Image URLs

                          
If you have a blog on Blogger or Wordpress, and you want to provide links to images which are not on the web, then one of the best and easy ways is to upload your images on cloud and then link back to those images.

Google Drive is one of the best free cloud storage providers and gives up to 15GB of space for your files. But, you may not find copy image URL when you right click on an image stored in Drive. However there is a simple trick using which an Image URL can be created and linked to the image for using on your blog as a direct URL.

For example, if you open the image, then the URL in the address bar is this

http://docs.google.com/file/d/FILEID/edit

Change it to 

http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=FILEID

The above syntax can act as a direct URL to your blog's needs.

You can also use:

http://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILEID

to start a download and this works for file, not just for images.

NOTE : You have to set your image/other files to public access for the above method to work.