# Picture from URL?
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [October 25, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173 "2021-10-25T04:17:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@ronnie](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ronnie)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173/1 "2021-10-25T04:17:02Z")
This shouldn’t be that hard of an issue, but I have been trying to figure out where I am going wrong for a couple of hours now. I’ve added an image component to my app and I have a URL of the image I want to use. I add this URL to the properties and I have even tried setting it using a block and it does absolutely nothing. Is there something special to simply adding an image from a URL? I am looking at the image, so it does exist and I am copying the URL directly, but it still won’t show…
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 4:36am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173/2 "2021-10-25T04:36:15Z")
This _should_ work but it may be dependent on where the image comes from. I have used many publicly sourced images in my projects. Instead of a file path I use the url
Perhaps some screenshots are in order to help diagnose here.
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173/3 "2021-10-25T04:41:11Z")
Make sure the image is not hosted locally (on your computer). Also make sure that if it’s a Google Drive url that you have given access to “anyone who has the link.”
What is the url you are trying to use?
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### Author:  [@ronnie](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ronnie)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173/4 "2021-10-25T04:41:22Z")
> [@jared](#):
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> Perhaps some screenshots are in order to help diagnose here.
Sure can! Here is my screenshot:
Here is the URL I’m trying to load:
[https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/animations/enlil/enlil/spi\_data/model\_runs/44617/enlil\_com2\_20211023T020000.jpg](https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/animations/enlil/enlil/spi_data/model_runs/44617/enlil_com2_20211023T020000.jpg)
I don’t know why I can’t get it to load… Green box is my image component. Edited to add the right pic.
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173/5 "2021-10-25T04:42:52Z")
I get a “Not Found” error message when I click on your link.
Or rather, I **did**. I just tried it again and it worked. Maybe try a different url just to make sure it’s not that specific site/server that’s the problem.
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173/6 "2021-10-25T04:44:23Z")
I didn’t get an error. I got a noaa picture.
Can you show how you’re setting the image in your blocks?
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### Author:  [@ronnie](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ronnie)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173/7 "2021-10-25T04:46:46Z")
Sat here and mucked around with it for several hours and it wouldn’t load a thing. Magically it’s now working. I don’t know. Maybe I need a break?!
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173/8 "2021-10-25T04:48:48Z")
Ask and you shall receive! 🙌
You must’ve done something right!
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/picture-from-url/1579173/9 "2024-11-08T13:14:36Z")