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Hi everyone,

I’m wondering if there is a way to get the url of a file that has been uploaded to an record. I know how to get the Record URL but I’d like to know if there is a link to the file(s) hosted by Airtable. I’ve looked through the forum but I could not find anything. Perhaps I’m using the wrong search terminology.

Essentially, I’d like to use the URL in an HTML email template to insert a photo hosted on one of our bases. Is this possible? If so, how do you find/create the the full url (e.g. airtable.com/record_ID/image.jpg).

If you create a formula field which is simply set to equal the image field then you will get a result such as:

Base Player.jpg (https://dl.airtable.com/qwOBnadakjhdf_Julian%20Kirkness%233%23Base%20Player.jpg)

(note this is NOT an actual link!!

If you needed just the URL, then you could refine the formula to strip out the other parts - or if you were going to email it via something like Zapier then you could use the Extract URL feature in the Formatter tool to extract just the URL.

Hope this helps!

If you create a formula field which is simply set to equal the image field then you will get a result such as:

Base Player.jpg (https://dl.airtable.com/qwOBnadakjhdf_Julian%20Kirkness%233%23Base%20Player.jpg)

(note this is NOT an actual link!!

If you needed just the URL, then you could refine the formula to strip out the other parts - or if you were going to email it via something like Zapier then you could use the Extract URL feature in the Formatter tool to extract just the URL.

Hope this helps!


@Julian_Kirkness, thank you very much. I should have realized it was this simple and thanks for the Zapier recommendation, that’s exactly what we’ll try out.

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