Adding and Removing Product Images with a URL

Ablestar Bulk Product Editor allows you to add and removing images in bulk, quickly and easily.

💡Find the Shopify Image URL

Before starting, you need to find the URL of the image from your Shopify Admin dashboard by clicking the Content > Files menu. From there you can search for any product image and copy the URL similar to either format:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0696/9622/5505/files/193c9e0a1fe5415cbe7e45034ea09317.jpg

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0696/9622/5505/files/193c9e0a1fe5415cbe7e45034ea09317.jpg?v=1712737063

Choose if you prefer the 'In-App Edit' to add or remove images or the 'Spreadsheet' method (to add images only):

1. In-App Edit:

Once you have filtered your products from the Product View, click the Edit Products button. Choose the options required:

1. Field to Edit field: search and find the 'Images' option
2. How to Edit field: You have several options to modify images from the Product > In-App Edit function:
   • Add images to the end
   • Add images to the beginning
   • Remove first image(s): you can use just a portion of the image name, and it will remove all images with file names that include that text.
   • Remove last image(s): you can use just a portion of the image name, and it will remove all images with file names that include that text.
   • Remove image matching text 
3. Image URL field: include the entire URL from where the image is located

Click the Run edit button to apply changes

When removing or matching text on images, the system will search for anything after the /files/ extension on the URL.

Note that it also recognizes letter case so trying to remove or replace matching text using lowercase 'retro' when the image file name is "Retro" will not work.

2. Spreadsheet Edits

You can use a spreadsheet to add images to products only, we cannot remove images with this method.

You have two formatting options while prepping your spreadsheet:

• Separate the image URLs into separate columns
• Include all the URLs for the images in one column, separated by a pipe | symbol

To map your imported columns, search for 'image' and the system will offer you two options:

• Product images: Add to Beginning
• Product images: Add to End

✅ Tips and Troubleshooting

• Replacing matches file names is case sensitive and must be exact
• Removing images is permanent and we are unable to restore images from Shopify once deleted

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