# Generate a URL for a picture
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [January 28, 2022, 11:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845 "2022-01-28T23:12:52Z")
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### Author:  [@Hassan\_Nadeem](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hassan_Nadeem)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 11:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845/1 "2022-01-28T23:12:53Z")
Hello Glide Community,
I am making a travel diary application where user uploads the list of countries and cities they have traveled to. Is there any way I can generate a picture of that country’s flag automatically when they input the name of that country? Through a generate URL column or Template column maybe?
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845/2 "2022-01-28T23:26:42Z")
Use a template column to craft this url
> **[Add Country Flags to Your App With This API - countryflags.io alternative](https://dev.to/jeremypersing/add-country-flags-to-your-app-with-this-api-countryflagsio-alternative-d0d)**
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> Introduction I was recently working on a project that required me to implement country...
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### Author:  [@Hassan\_Nadeem](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hassan_Nadeem)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845/3 "2022-01-28T23:28:59Z")
Are you a genius or Are you a genius? 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍
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### Author:  [@Hassan\_Nadeem](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hassan_Nadeem)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845/4 "2022-01-28T23:32:45Z")
@Robert_Petitto
This is too much to ask, but can you please get me a similar APIs for:
1. Movies or TV shows
2. Books
3. Food items maybe? 😊
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845/5 "2022-01-28T23:40:23Z")
Ha! That’s trickier and probably pricier (those APIs probably aren’t free). Perhaps start with something like [https://www.linkpreview.net/](https://www.linkpreview.net/)
> **[LinkPreview API - Free Link Preview Service](https://www.linkpreview.net)**
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> Preview Web links with our reliable API service. Get Detailed JSON Response for any URL.
Google books API is freemium…perhaps IMDb has an API as well.
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### Author:  [@Hassan\_Nadeem](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hassan_Nadeem)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845/6 "2022-01-29T00:18:26Z")
Thank you so much!! I am an amateur in using APIs but will look up some tutorials for using them. Thanks
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845/7 "2022-01-29T23:34:53Z")
Just to add to great responses by Bob, if you’re using a premium API, make sure you check for caching with those. If responses are not cached, you risk running out of calls very soon.
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845/8 "2022-01-30T01:28:38Z")
Good call on caching. I’ve run Into this issue more times than I’d like to admit.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/generate-a-url-for-a-picture/37845/9 "2022-01-31T01:28:58Z")
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