Hi everyone,
I just wanted to share a quick tip I use.
I often see people use Zapier or miniExtensions to do this basic operation so it may be easier to do this way.
I am using the Automation feature of Airtable to trigger when the record has a “pending URL” (that should be processed).
When triggered, Airtable let’s you set the Attachment field type with an “URL” value and will automatically convert it. (tested for images and PDFs)
Florian
Also, for anyone who would like to use this with Dropbox, simply download the normal sharing link from Dropbox.
It’ll look like this:
To get a direct download link, just replace the www.dropbox.com with dl.dropboxusercontent.com , which will give you a link like:
Works great! Tho there’s a minor issue: Label gets lost.
It just uses the filename as label, in which means any custom label and spaces will be removed.
It’s surprising Airtable doesn’t already convert LABEL (URL) to attachments, even when it was originally an attachment converted to text. 
But oh, well. What can you do? I hope someday I can re-format the labels in batch using a backup of the original label I made in a separate field.
How did you get it to work? I, like many others in this chain, do not see any automations in the linked base.
@Florian_Verdon2... this is amazing, didn't realize how easy this was. However, for some reason sortable is converting my attachment to a ".ashx" file. If I click on url directly it downloads as SVG, but using the url in attachment field via automation attaches as an ".ashx". It appears normal, and when I download to computer I can rename to ".svg" and it will then open normal. However it requires additional operations. Any thoughts on how to stop it from changing to .ashx?
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