Hotlinking and download_location problems

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Hotlinking and download_location problems #179

Closed anonimeishon closed 3 years ago

anonimeishon commented 3 years ago

Steps to Reproduce

In my application I'm trying to let people choose photos from the Unsplash API as their profile pictures and etc, but I'm trying to fix my unsplash integration so I can apply for a production API key, I'm having issues understanding how hotlinking works, do I need to save the download_location and when loaded in my webpage request your api again to get the url.small link with the utm query? Or do I just save the url.small link with the query directly? Thanks in advance!

steve-gio commented 3 years ago

Same issue here

OliverJAsh commented 3 years ago

Hi, this article should provide all of the information you need: https://help.unsplash.com/en/articles/2511258-guideline-triggering-a-download

Essentially, you want to send a request to the URL specified at photo.links.download_location when the user chooses a photo to use as their profile picture.

I'm going to close this as it's a API support issue rather than an issue with unsplash-js.