Thanks for posting, this is extremely helpful. I wish Airtable would make their link expiry optional - it's very inconvenient to have to implement a workaround such as this.
Actually they never had intention to use the base as a file sharing service. Their setup allows to share views and bases, but there never was an option to share files. Links to files are more visible via api more as a way of providing easy format for other services to access them. Likely they did not expect that so many people will be storing files there and be interesting in sharing. All in all it is a good development from technical point of view to have those links expiring. For proper file sharing you they would need to implement much more solutions (like expiry date, login with link or not etc.)
This would work per se but it is not great to use as a high traffic link. If you are embedding something in HTML Email you might be better of sending images to something like cloudinary.
@@madzfinancialadvisor then you would have to use Make to upload images to cloudinary and save cloudinary link to Airtable and use that link for the website.
Can you help me with that?. I have a form than the users introduces a image. I want to show all the image in a wordpress post but, like you explain, the url expire after 2 hours. The example than you show is for 1 row. How can I create multiples links from every news rows that I have because I need the url don't expire. Sorry for my english. I hope I could explain well.
If you want to show images on the web - this workaround in this video will not work. to have Airtable images show on Wordpress - you need something like Cloudinary due to: - traffic volume - better image resizsing and loading experience when served with Cloudinary optimization
Hi, does this work for a scenario when I email clients different images depending on the image I upload to Airtable? I use Airtable's image URL and it expires after 2 hours. So what's happening is that some of my clients don't see the image because it has already expired. I'm looking for a fix to this.
Hi, yes , this would be a good use case - this means client clicks on a link / webhook provided by make - that link retrieves the Attachment live from Airtable via api and returns it as a download.
@@BusinessAutomatedTutorialsIm not actually using download. What I'm doing is I'm emailing clients images (that are retrieved from airtable and placed in an HTML code in Make).
@@madzfinancialadvisor if this is HTML in Email that should be fine, but I would not use it for website or higher volume traffic location as it will be too much operations. For use cases like that cloudinary is better.
I tried it and unfortunatly it's not generating a fresh URL everytime I request it. Seams that they performed this change to prevent people using this technique
The solution I describe is not generating a fresh URL - It gives you a static URL (Make webhook) which every time makes fresh request to Airtable API to get the files.
@@BusinessAutomatedTutorialsThank you for your response. I have understood how the workflow works and was able to reproduce it successfully. However, I initially assumed that each time the webhook is executed, Airtable generates a new URL, which was not the case. However, this morning I discovered that the URL from yesterday had expired, and when I ran the webhook, Airtable generated a new URL, which is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much for the video and the explanations. It was very useful for me.
Thanks for posting, this is extremely helpful. I wish Airtable would make their link expiry optional - it's very inconvenient to have to implement a workaround such as this.
Actually they never had intention to use the base as a file sharing service. Their setup allows to share views and bases, but there never was an option to share files. Links to files are more visible via api more as a way of providing easy format for other services to access them. Likely they did not expect that so many people will be storing files there and be interesting in sharing.
All in all it is a good development from technical point of view to have those links expiring. For proper file sharing you they would need to implement much more solutions (like expiry date, login with link or not etc.)
This wouldn't work if I had to send the image links to an external service like a mailchimp campaign right?
This would work per se but it is not great to use as a high traffic link. If you are embedding something in HTML Email you might be better of sending images to something like cloudinary.
@@BusinessAutomatedTutorialshow is this? from airtable to make to cloudinary?
@@madzfinancialadvisor then you would have to use Make to upload images to cloudinary and save cloudinary link to Airtable and use that link for the website.
Can you help me with that?. I have a form than the users introduces a image. I want to show all the image in a wordpress post but, like you explain, the url expire after 2 hours. The example than you show is for 1 row. How can I create multiples links from every news rows that I have because I need the url don't expire. Sorry for my english. I hope I could explain well.
If you want to show images on the web - this workaround in this video will not work. to have Airtable images show on Wordpress - you need something like Cloudinary due to:
- traffic volume
- better image resizsing and loading experience when served with Cloudinary optimization
Hi, does this work for a scenario when I email clients different images depending on the image I upload to Airtable? I use Airtable's image URL and it expires after 2 hours. So what's happening is that some of my clients don't see the image because it has already expired. I'm looking for a fix to this.
Hi, yes , this would be a good use case - this means client clicks on a link / webhook provided by make - that link retrieves the Attachment live from Airtable via api and returns it as a download.
@@BusinessAutomatedTutorialsIm not actually using download. What I'm doing is I'm emailing clients images (that are retrieved from airtable and placed in an HTML code in Make).
@@madzfinancialadvisor if this is HTML in Email that should be fine, but I would not use it for website or higher volume traffic location as it will be too much operations. For use cases like that cloudinary is better.
@@BusinessAutomatedTutorialsYou are awesome! Thank you so much for your great help and advise!
I tried it and unfortunatly it's not generating a fresh URL everytime I request it. Seams that they performed this change to prevent people using this technique
The solution I describe is not generating a fresh URL - It gives you a static URL (Make webhook) which every time makes fresh request to Airtable API to get the files.
@@BusinessAutomatedTutorialsThank you for your response. I have understood how the workflow works and was able to reproduce it successfully. However, I initially assumed that each time the webhook is executed, Airtable generates a new URL, which was not the case. However, this morning I discovered that the URL from yesterday had expired, and when I ran the webhook, Airtable generated a new URL, which is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much for the video and the explanations. It was very useful for me.