Question on Google Drive URL formatting and 0codekit

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Good evening

Is anyone using 0codekit to “Overlay Two images” ? I have a question on the correct format of the Front and back URLs.

I use Google Drive to store my original images and my overlay templates, I intend to select an image for the back and an overlay for the front and have a combined image returned that will get downloaded back to another location in my Google Drive. This way I can automate my overlay process saving me a ton of time.

Unfortunately, I can only get 0code overlay to work and return blank images or an error

Currently, I am attempting to use the URL format of

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID (where file ID is the actual id of the the file)

any thoughts would be greatly appreciated in advance, thank you

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Welcome to the Make community!

Did you also set the file to “public” using the Get a share link module? If not, other services won’t be able to download from the URL.

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Yes i did, here is the result

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There is an encoding issue when downloading certain files from Google Drive.

I have mentioned more details here: Read text in .txt file stored in google drive - #4 by samliew

The usual workaround was to use a “Convert encoding” module, or a “Convert image” module, but that doesn’t apply here because you are passing the URL directly to 0-CodeKit, and not the file data.

Please try using a different file hosting service instead.

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