Embed image from Google Drive

I’m trying to embed an explanatory image in a markdown cell. At the top of the cell there’s an ‘Insert image’ button that puts the code ![alt text](https://) into the cell. It works for images hosted on the web, like for example from Wikimedia Commons. On Google Drive you can right-click on a file and select ‘Get shareable link’ which gives you a link using which anyone can view the file (like say an image file). But this link can’t be used to display an image in a Colab markdown cell. I’m using Google Chrome.

Example notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/19Qe70fDD2XUP8LdWYnUQuUko5oT98Euy

[blois]

I was able to get a photo from Drive working by:

1. Upload the image to Drive.
2. Right-click on the file in Drive, choose ‘Get sharable link’.

The URL should look like: https://drive.google.com/open?id=XXXXXX

Then grab the ID from that URL then for the URL in the notebook, use: http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=XXXXXX

[beli]

Un-blocking third party cookies made the images appear for me - those with ‘open?id’ replaced with ‘uc?id’ and with ‘uc?export=view&id’. The change is immediate, without having to reload. I’m on Google Chrome.

Apologies, and thanks!