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Steel Contributor

Aug 08, 2022

Where Stock Images are stored in SharePoint Online

I have tried looking for where "Stock Images" selected for banners or any other web part use on a SPO page are stored. I am unable to determine this. They are not stored in the Site Assets like other...

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ganeshsanap
Aug 09, 2022
karen_dredske Stock images used in page banner or in image web parts are not stored in site assets library.
These images are hosted on public CDN by Microsoft & displayed using CDN URL.

For example, the image highlighted below is displayed using CDN URL as below:
Images uploaded from your computer will be stored in Site Assets library.
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karen_dredske

Steel Contributor

Thank you ganeshsanap. This is what I was looking for. The unfortunate part is that I can see from your image that one has to find the URL using developer tools in their browser - which is not a user friendly way for a business user to find it in order to use the image again in the future if the image they want doesn't appear when they enter a key word.

ganeshsanap

MVP

Aug 16, 2022

karen_dredske I agree with your point. User should be able to reuse the previously used stock images.

Either there should be an option to store images in site assets or search images using specific keywords in future also.

I would suggest you to submit the feedback/idea for this on SharePoint feedback portal: SharePoint feedback portal

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Ann_B1815
Brass Contributor
Oct 14, 2022
ganeshsanap Had the same question, right clicking on the image, copy link will give you the URL (in my case), however, that doesn't help me as when I try to use it in a page with 'From link' I get the error message 'we only support links from within your organisation' because the images are stored in a CDN which is global
- ganeshsanap
  MVP
  Oct 14, 2022
  Ann_B1815 Yes, unfortunately it does not work.
  
  Try this:
  Open the copied URL directly in new browser tab
  Right click on image and use "Save image as..." option to save the image
  Use "Upload" option while adding image instead of "From link"
  Note: You can use w=800 query string parameter in URL to get the different size images.
  For example:
  
  https://media.akamai.odsp.cdn.office.net/centralindia1-mediap.svc.ms/transform/thumbnail?provider=url&inputFormat=jpg&docid=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.hubblecontent.osi.office.net%2Fm365content%2Fpublish%2F007661b8-0711-426b-af1b-ff30e6b85a9f%2F1092821342.jpg&w=800
  
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  - Ann_B1815
    Brass Contributor
    Dec 12, 2023
    That's great, thank you, why didn't I think of that! Doh