Allow loading a drawing from URL

I saw this tweet and like the idea that Excalidraw can actually be used as an open “drawing” format by other apps.

It would be nice if apps could “export to Excalidraw” using a simple link, something like:

https://excalidraw.com/?load=[url-encoded json payload here]

A big drawing might quickly reach the max standard length of an URL, but if it’s only loaded on the client side, it might work fine?

[svrcekmichal]

@gaelduplessix this is exactly the feature I’m interested in. I’m using excalidraw to create sketches on top of documentation and right now I’m storing exports next to MD files in case I need to edit them. What would be cool, is to have some way how to generate images based on the URL data provided and at the same time be able to just drop some route parameter to open excalidraw for editing

[dwelle]

I wonder how we should address the fact we don’t yet have a JSON spec, and that it’s changing quite often still (it’s giving us problems to migrate imported files, and there we have some sort of a control over, in terms of expectations).