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How to link an image (paste a URL)

Use a direct image URL when the image is already hosted somewhere.

Linking is the fastest way to feed Alt Text Studio an image that already lives on the web: your CMS, a CDN, an Imgur upload, anywhere a direct image URL works.

Find a direct image URL

A direct URL ends in .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp, or .gif. Right-click the image in your browser → Copy image address. The URL of the page the image is on does NOT work. We need the image file itself.

Direct image URL

Direct (works):  https://alttextstudio.com/images/examples/headphones-product.webp
Page URL (no):   https://example.com/products/headphones

Want to grab every image on a page in one go instead of copying URLs one at a time? See How to scrape a webpage for images.

Paste it into Image URL on /create

On the Create page, paste the URL into the Image URL field and click Upload. The preview appears once the image loads.

When linking fails, upload instead

Some hosts (Wikipedia, Cloudflare-protected CDNs, sites with hotlink protection) reject direct fetches. If you see "Could not load image from this URL", download the file and use Image Upload instead.

Linked images are not stored on our servers. We fetch them once at generation time. If the source URL goes 404 later, the image preview in My Library breaks but the generated alt text stays.

Related guides

How to upload an image from your computer— Drag-and-drop, click-to-upload, or paste a copied image directly with Ctrl/Cmd+V.
How to link multiple image URLs— Paste a list of image URLs to process them in a single batch.
How to generate alt text— Pick any input method (upload, URL, CSV, HTML, or scrape), choose your options, click Generate.

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