What is the right way to put a Drive image into a Sheets cell programmatically?

Question

I have a WebApp that collects work site data into a Google Sheets spreadsheet and also collects work site photos into a Google Drive folder that I create for each job. Some

Answer 1

Assuming you get the ID of your image in your drive, you can use a code like below to insert an image in the last row of a sheet (the url is a bit different than usual):

  ...
  var img = DriveApp.getFileById('image ID');// or any other way to get the image object
  var imageInsert = sheet.getRange(lastRow+1, 5).setFormula('=image("https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id='+img.getId()+'")');// in this example the image is in column E
  sheet.setRowHeight(lastRow+1, 80);// define a row height to determine the size of the image in the cell
  ...

I would suggest that you carefully check the sharing properties of the files you are trying to show : they must be set to "public" of moved in a folder that is also "publicly shared"

Answer 2

We build a lot of sheets with images and use the static link available in the google album archive { https://get.google.com/albumarchive/... } rather than the dynamic link in google photos. the link in the archive normally ends in "-rw" which limits view-ability to some with whom the doc is shared with. Deleting "-rw" from the end of the link seems to help.

Answer 3

I made a two lines script to use the share link of an image in Google Drive.

1. Go to Tools > Script editor.
2. Copy, paste the following code
3. Save

function DRIVE_IMAGE(link){
  return link.replace("open?", "uc?export=download&");
}

Using the script :

1. Copy the Get shareable link of your image in Google Drive (Maybe you need to set the share preference to Public on the web).
2. Go to a Google sheets cell.

3. Enter the formula

   =IMAGE(DRIVE_IMAGE("COPIED_LINK"))