# Download & Embed Album Art from URL in Tag **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [December 20, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/download-embed-album-art-from-url-in-tag/51270 "2020-12-20T06:44:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![taggert](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@taggert](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/taggert)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/download-embed-album-art-from-url-in-tag/51270/1 "2020-12-20T06:44:18Z")
Over the years I have added the urls of my album art to a tag of the associated file. I didn't have a specific plan at the time but it seemed easy enough to do (automated in most cases). Years later a need emerges - I need to download and re-embed the album art of many files, due to a error I'd prefer not to relive in this message. Anyway, I assumed I would throw together a quick action: - Check for my album art tag - if found, download the art and embed it into the file Pretty simple, right? Or so I thought. It seems there is no easy way to do this, at least one that I can find. Does anyone have any suggestions? It is worth noting that I have hundreds of file need updating so I would prefer a batch solution, if available. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 9:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/download-embed-album-art-from-url-in-tag/51270/2 "2020-12-20T09:38:18Z")
You could add a Tool in File\>Options\>Tools that opens your web browser with url as parameter. You would have to download and save the picture, though. ---
**Author:** ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/download-embed-album-art-from-url-in-tag/51270/3 "2020-12-20T13:49:03Z")
You can use the Export function to create a batch file that downloads all images (with curl or wget) and then use Mp3tag action to embedd the images. ---
**Author:** ![taggert](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@taggert](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/taggert)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/download-embed-album-art-from-url-in-tag/51270/4 "2020-12-20T14:21:57Z")
Thanks dano! I've not used export before. Would you be able to point me to an similar example? I am not sure how to isolate the tag(s) and generate a consolidated batch file. ---
**Author:** ![taggert](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@taggert](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/taggert)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/download-embed-album-art-from-url-in-tag/51270/5 "2020-12-20T14:41:10Z")
Thanks ohrenkino. This (manual downloads) is the process I am trying to avoid. That said, if I could figure out a way to batch download (similar to an export cover art) using an external tool I could easily write an import action... You've got me thinking... ---
**Author:** ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/download-embed-album-art-from-url-in-tag/51270/6 "2020-12-20T15:00:09Z")
Export example, asuming you want to download 1 cover per folder and %coverurl% is the tag field with the url. ``` $filename(Download cover images.bat,ansi)set wget=ENTER PATH TO WGET.EXE HERE $loop(%_folderpath%,1)PUSHD "%_folderpath%" $if(%coverurl%,'%wget%' %coverurl%,) $loopend() ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/download-embed-album-art-from-url-in-tag/51270/7 "2021-01-19T15:00:11Z")
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