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I recently saw that a variable org-display-remote-inline-images was added to Org mode. This is a huge one for technical documentation, but sadly I was not able to get it to work. I tried cache and then download value.
Workflow:
[[https://URL-to-some-image.png]] to the document. (I tried also jpg and svg.)M-x org-toggle-inline-imagesAm I missing something? I saw something with imagemagick in the diff-patch, imagemagick is installed on the system.
I agree with NickD in the comments above that out of the box this currently only works for Tramp remote links. Tested with recent build of Emacs 29 development.
Then I read somewhere that this does work in Doom Emacs so I went digging through its source.
Below is what I had to do to get my vanilla Emacs to show inline images from http / https URLs:
;; https://blog.tecosaur.com/tmio/2021-04-26-Welcome.html#inline-display-remote
;; on 2022-09-04 this only works for tramp remote links and not for http / https
(setq org-display-remote-inline-images 'cache)
;; we look to doom emacs for an example how to get remote images also working
;; for normal http / https links
;; 1. image data handler
(defun org-http-image-data-fn (protocol link _description)
"Interpret LINK as an URL to an image file."
(when (and (image-type-from-file-name link)
(not (eq org-display-remote-inline-images 'skip)))
(if-let (buf (url-retrieve-synchronously (concat protocol ":" link)))
(with-current-buffer buf
(goto-char (point-min))
(re-search-forward "\r?\n\r?\n" nil t)
(buffer-substring-no-properties (point) (point-max)))
(message "Download of image \"%s\" failed" link)
nil)))
;; 2. add this as link parameter for http and https
(org-link-set-parameters "http" :image-data-fun #'org-http-image-data-fn)
(org-link-set-parameters "https" :image-data-fun #'org-http-image-data-fn)
;; 3. pull in org-yt which will advise ~org-display-inline-images~ how to do the extra handling
(use-package org-yt
:quelpa (org-yt :fetcher github :repo "TobiasZawada/org-yt"))
(require 'org-yt)
See also:
filelink with a Tramp remote path. I'm not sure thatinsert-file-contents-literally(which is used withdownload) knows how to get files over HTTPS. Something like[[file:/scp:user@host:/path/to/foo.png]].