title: Firebase Storage - URL for image services
body: <p>I'm trying to get Firebase Storage to work with an image service like <a href="https://www.imgix.com/" rel="noreferrer">Imgix</a> or <a href="https://cloudinary.com" rel="noreferrer">Cloudinary</a>. However, the download URL's that Firebase provides, do not seem to work with these services. </p>
  
  <p>For example: <strong>Cloudinary</strong> says you can fetch images like this:</p>
  
  <p><strong><a href="http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/fetch/" rel="noreferrer">http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/fetch/</a></strong><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Scarlett_Johansson_C%C3%A9sars_2014.jpg" rel="noreferrer">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Scarlett_Johansson_C%C3%A9sars_2014.jpg</a></p>
  
  <p>However, my download URL looks more like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/project-503247351211329470.appspot.com/changedsoitdoesnotwork/o/O8Hv4nKOyGgcCyOLoVLH7cQw48y2%2Fimages%2F1.jpeg?alt=media&amp;token=28eabf76-f85b-45aa-das3-fd945729d7c2" rel="noreferrer">https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/project-503247351211329470.appspot.com/changedsoitdoesnotwork/o/O8Hv4nKOyGgcCyOLoVLH7cQw48y2%2Fimages%2F1.jpeg?alt=media&amp;token=28eabf76-f85b-45aa-das3-fd945729d7c2</a></p>
  
  <p><em>I changed some characters in the above url, so it won't work since I don't want a gazillion requests from Stackoverflow. :)</em></p>
  
  <p>Is there something I can do differently? Can I perhaps make requests straight to the Storage Bucket?</p>