Data merge image url

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Hi.

It's possible to get an image that I have in csv column with format: @IMAGE 

https://www.domain.com/image.jpg ?? Thanks

[brianp311 · Accepted solution]

No, the image needs to be available locally. You can script curl or socket operations to download the photos locally then point to that path. 

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Thanks

[patMorita · Accepted solution]

If you are on macOS try MyDataMerge (https://mydatamerge.com) There's a (reduced) free version. It's capable of doing data merges with image URLs (will download the images for you). Additionally you can setup image alignment and fitting per image frame individually.

[Lars25911171dz09]

I wrote a simple VBA program in Excel which

1 Goes though all picture links, extracts the names of the pictures and downloads them to a local folder

2 Changes all links to point to the local versions

3 Saves the resulting file as a csv-file, ready to be imported in InDesign