Flickr offers a variety of ways to share images from your computer, including sending them to social media sites, emailing them to friends & family, or embedding them on a website.
You can also share your photos from the mobile app.
Note: At this time, BBCode can only be generated in the desktop.
Please keep in mind the following restrictions regarding safety & privacy levels:
- Uploads marked as friends, family, or private cannot be embedded onto other websites.
- Uploads marked as moderate cannot be shared directly to social media.
- Uploads marked as restricted will disable the Share button entirely.
When you click the Share icon, you can quickly:
- Post on social media. Share individual photos or albums on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, & Pinterest.
- Copy a link to the photo page or album. Whether it's public or private, you can get a link to the photo page or album to share with others. Private content generates a Guest Pass link so only people with the URL can see it.
Email a link to the photo page
- Click a photo to open it.
- Click the Share icon.
- Click Email.
- Enter the recipient's Flickr screen name or email address.
- Enter a message.
- Click Share.
Copy the BBCode
- Click a photo to open it.
- Click the Share icon.
- Click BBCode.
- Pick the size you want to display.
- Copy the code and use it on your website.
Embed an album, photo, or video
- Hover over You, select Albums, or navigate to and open the photo or video.
- Click the Share icon.
- Click Embed.
- Pick a size and options you want to display.
- Copy the code, then click the X.
- Use the code on your website.
Note: embedding, email, & BBC code sharing abilities are only available if photo downloading is changed to an option other than ‘only me’ in your account settings.
Also, some websites require you to link directly to a photo, instead of the photo page.
- Example of a photo URL (note the .jpg at the end):
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50626614036_c68505b270_b.jpg - Example of a photo page URL (note no .jpg at the end): https://www.flickr.com/photos/flickr/50626614036/
Get a direct URL to it
- Click a photo to open it.
- Click the Download icon.
- Click View all sizes.
- Click on the size you want to see.
- Right-click the image.
- Select Copy Image Location or Copy Image URL (text may vary per browser).
Remember to link back to Flickr! Per our Terms of Use, whenever you place an image you're storing on Flickr on an external web site, you must also include a link back to Flickr.