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zsviczian / obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian
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FR: Embed images from Internet without having to download them (as in Obsidian web image embeds) #1606

Open pikatwinky opened 8 months ago

pikatwinky commented 8 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I think it could be very powerful to be able to use web images by embeding the uri and using them in excalidraw drawings without having to download them each time, just as in normal obsidian which uses the syntax ![](uri) to achieve that. https://forum.obsidian.md/t/embed-images-on-the-internet-using-their-uri-image-address/4193

Current excalidraw versions support that tool called web embed, but images in that window can't be edited nor scaled it seems. Also i think doing it in this way could speed the thinking process just as in Obsidian Canvas, but leveraging the capabilities of Excalidraw, because when you download an image from internet and a bit later you realize that isn't what you want, you have to spend time by searching for that image and delete it from your vault compared to just delete the link as in Obsidian web embeds

Also, I don't know if there is a workaround to achieve this at this moment?

Thank you so much

zsviczian commented 8 months ago

Simply copy/paste the link for the image to the Excalidraw scene and it will embed the image from the web. Right click the image and select "Save selected image from URL to local file" if you want to store the image in your Vault.

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