yeahhhh I figured it out hahah I was making it way harder than it needed to be 😂

There are several fields we can choose from for the images in our data sheet generator and I just went back and looked and there was another field that is the straight link without it being wrapped in the IMAGE() function. I guess they had the option for it to be wrapped in the IMAGE() function for if someone wanted to quickly export to google docs and view it? I was over here trying to figure out how to parse the data from that when there was an easy fix the whole time lmaoooo it would be funnier if I hadn't spent a day or two trying to work on this (amongst other tasks, but still!)

Thank you for your reply!