Ever since Airtable changed their Attachment URL expiry window to 2 hours, I had to setup automations using Make to upload files to S3.
This worked great, but I recently build a custom extension to get this to work without using Make.
So, I started building an Airtable extension to bridge this gap. The goal is to keep it all inside the Airtable UI (see the screenshot of what I have so far):
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You select your attachment field.
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The extension mirrors the file to a permanent bucket in the background.
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It writes the non-expiring CDN URL back to a field of your choice.
I’m still polishing this, but I wanted to see if anyone else would actually find this useful compared to the current Zapier/Make methods.
Is "reduced friction" enough of a reason to switch, or are most of you happy with your current S3 setups? If there's enough interest, I'll keep pushing to get this ready for a public release.