How to Post Images on BLF

I failed and
donā€™t know what to do with Flickr.
How did you find that source code?

What about this :
(i tried Google drive) :

I don't see your image.

If you want a better chance of your image being visible, you need an image link that ends in .bmp .gif .jpg or .png

Iā€™m on my phone too.
Iā€™m traveling far away from home, no laptop/pc.
donā€™t have access to my pc/laptop. :person_facepalming:
Iā€™ll try again later when I get home :smiley:

In firefox: Right click into page / select ā€œshow source codeā€ from menu. Then search for ā€œjpgā€.

I need to get home and use my laptop then :smiley:

This wonā€™t work either, and apparently the file is private if Iā€™m not mistaken.

I have not followed the discussion closely, but is there a reason youā€™re not using imgur.com?

Google Drive makes it even harder than Flickr to uncover the actual image URL.

Try https://imgur.com/ instead.

I found this among hundreds of lines :
ā€œ//live.staticflickr.com/65535/50323153962_c90d02d145_t.jpgā€

Let me try again :

https//live.staticflickr.com/65535/50323153962_c90d02d145_t.jpg

https//live.staticflickr.com/65535/50323153962_c90d02d145_t.jpg


Another try :
ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦

EDIT :
edited to make it less messyā€¦

^ that kinda works?

Iā€™m sorry if Iā€™m making trouble here.
hereā€™s another try. With Flickr.

You linked to a thumbnail as opposed to a higher res image.

Youā€™re right, i canā€™t make it work with Google Drive.
it kinda works with Flickr.
yup, it works ok with Flickr.

Youā€™re correct again.

I then compared my post with the post of Mr. Unheard , i found the difference , mine ended with ā€œ_t.jpgā€ :person_facepalming: , i thought maybe ā€œtā€ means thumbnail.?
Unheardā€™s has ā€œ_b.jpgā€ . I donā€™t know what ā€œbā€ means here, but for next image I changed the _t with _b and it shows higher res image

a little edit for the typo

Hereā€™s what Iā€™ve got so far. Iā€™m still learning, hopefully this will be useful for other people learning/trying to post image on BLF.
I created Flickr account yesterday, for the sole purpose of posting image on BLF. Free account can have 1000 images (or is it 999?). I uploaded a few images for testing. Created ā€œAlbumā€ , etc, etc, etc ā€¦

Thatā€™s the EASY part.


Next, how to actually shows the image on blf post??? It was a huge and complicated puzzle to me. I tried with Flickr and failed. I tried with my Google Drive and Google Photo and itā€™s even worse/waaay mooooore COMPLICATED.

So I got back to Flickr. Following good advices in this thread. Tanks so much guys ā€¦

Iā€™m on my phone. It maybe easier on PC / laptop. Itā€™s doable on phone.


With Firefox browser on an Android phone:
Open budgetlightforum.com, etc, etc .
Open Flickr (also on Firefox browser on my phone) . Several tabs of blf.com and several tabs of flickr.com .

The key is Page Source .
On Flickr : open album, select one image.
Click ā€œthree-dot thingyā€ on top right corner of Firefox browser , click ā€œPageā€ , then click ā€œView Page Soureā€.

Then new tab opens . Thereā€™re hundreds of lines. Click ā€œthree-dot thingyā€ again, click ā€œFind in pageā€ , to find the image file name, type ā€œ.jpgā€ in the ā€œsearchā€ field , and I find something like this :

ā€¦ src=ā€œ//live.staticflickr.com/65535/50323153077_a732b24113_t.jpgā€ ā€¦

Use this line:
ā€œ//live.staticflickr.com/65535/50323153077_a732b24113_t.jpgā€

and add ā€œhttps:ā€

So it becomes :
ā€œhttps://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50323153077_a732b24113_t.jpgā€

That creates/shows thumbnail.


For higher-res image, change the ā€œ_tā€ with ā€œ_bā€ .

So it becomes :
ā€œhttps://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50323153077_a732b24113_b.jpgā€

and shows higher-res image.


Now you can decorate your post on BLF with your own decorative flashlight images (or any image you like) :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:


Let me try again (now it has ā€œ_mā€ instead of ā€œ_tā€ ? ) :
ā€œ//live.staticflickr.com/65535/50322282888_4db6e6caee_m.jpgā€


Let me experiments again with ā€œ_bā€ ( change the _m with _b ) :
ā€œ//live.staticflickr.com/65535/50322282888_4db6e6caee_b.jpgā€



Learnt new things again :

_t = thumbnail .
_m is larger than _t .
_b is larger than _m .

Yup, not extremely simple at all. But it works.

ā€¦ā€¦

Unfortunately imgur.com doesnā€™t work at all. I canā€™t even open imgur.com on my browser.

ā€¦ā€¦

With Google Drive I canā€™t get the ā€œPage sourceā€ .

With imgur, Unfortunately I canā€™t even open imgur.com on my browser .
Also, when I read posts on blf, many posts with images from imgur often donā€™t display the images. Only empty boxes (rectangular). I knew itā€™s imgur from when i click and ā€œOpen in new tabā€ the new tab/page (ā€¦ imgur.com ā€¦ ) is also blank .
Sometimes they show images , and next day they donā€™t. I think the problem is on my browser not in those posts.

ā€¦ā€¦

So for now, Flickr is the only way for me. Free account. Only 1000 images, I think thatā€™s definitely more than enough for me.

ā€¦ā€¦

Again, thanks very very very much for the tutorial and advices in this thread.
Now I feel Iā€™m more blf than yesterday :smiley: :smiley:

Another try :

Try abload.de, itā€™s good

Shows for me.

I have tried flickr first, then abload.de.

abload.de is easier to upload images to, and somehow much simpler also to create album, etc, etc. Itā€™s very easy to navigate.
And all types of url of every image are displayed clearly, very simple to copy the direct link of the image, hence very simple to post the image on blf.

Iā€™m on my Android phone (I very rarely use pc/laptop) , overall much better experience with abload.de.
At first I was rather reluctant to try and use abload.de coz I donā€™t understand German at all :person_facepalming: . Translator came to the rescueā€¦ :smiley: :smiley:
With Firefox browser, I use ā€œTranslate this pageā€ add-on, single click to translate the whole page into English, therefore no more language barrier. After a few times uploading images no need to translate the page coz itā€™s very easy to navigate, it only takes a few simple clicks.

Thanks. Now Iā€™m glad that it actually works :slight_smile:
abload.de FTW !! :smiley: