ImgRed.com - Hot-link images Without Really hot-linking

Posted by admin in Tips Tricks, ... | 04.06.2007 - 4:18 am

When posting on message boards or blogs, often you want to embed an image that is hosted on another website.

Directly showing or linking to that image is called hot-linking. It’s generally bad because it leeches bandwidth from the host site, many websites use techniques to prohibit image hot-linking.

The typical work-around is to do the following:

  • Save the image to your hard drive
  • Navigate to a free image-hosting website
  • Enter the path to the image on your hard drive
  • Wait for it to upload
  • Copy the new URL and paste it into your message-board or blog post.

Recently i found ImgRed, a new image hosting service which make it easy to hotlink to images without wasting bandwidth of host website.

Just Type http://imgred.com/[original_image_url]

ImgRed.com will grab the image located on the URL, and cache it in it’s own servers, and from then on the image will always be served from imgred.com instead of the host site.

[via ShankarTheTechie]

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    • 6 responses on "ImgRed.com - Hot-link images Without Really hot-linking" »

    MyAvatars 0.2 Shankar Ganesh
    Posted on April 6, 2007

    Thanks for the linkback!

    MyAvatars 0.2 Lovedeep
    Posted on April 6, 2007

    Keep writing good stuff. Good luck with your blog. :D

    MyAvatars 0.2 Shankar Ganesh
    Posted on April 6, 2007

    Thanks, Lovedeep :) I’ll surely write. Thanks for your kind words!

    MyAvatars 0.2 Forrest
    Posted on April 13, 2007

    This is amazing; no one thought to talk to a lawyer first. Basically, a new service allows people to republish images they don’t have rights to from a mysterious third-party server. It’s not clear how these people intend to make a profit, but they’re building up a collection of images, they don’t publish any contact info, or opt-out instructions.

    For anyone else who’s concerned about all this, I’ve written an article detailing how to ban imgred from your server: http://forrestcroce.com/Articles/Protecting-Digital-Images.html

    MyAvatars 0.2 Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq
    Posted on April 19, 2007

    What a great idea this is. Its amazing how there’s always room for innovation in even common web services like image hosting. Unfortunately the site owner says that his service runs at a loss so who knows how long it will be operational.

    @Forrest: There are opt out instructions on the site.

    MyAvatars 0.2 Forrest
    Posted on April 19, 2007

    There are opt-out instructions now, but there weren’t when I posted that comment. In fact, I had sent an email requesting to opt-out of the service and it bounced, so I had to take opting-out up with my .htaccess file. The guy even sent me a personal email ( to the contact address on the page I wrote ) saying he’s added opt-out.

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