Instagram Module (Make) can't pull my URL from Airtable, WHY?

[lukas-tech]

Hey guys, I am trying to automate my content posting through AirTable and Make and everything works fine until Instagram has to access the video file/URL from AirTable, then it fails and gives me errors. It's because my table is not publicly accessible so how can I change that so Instagram can access the Video URL without being blocked?

[ScottWorld]

@lukas-tech 

You don't need to make your table publicly accessible to get the video URL.

You can just pull the URL directly from the attachment field in Airtable, as long as you've already given Make access to your Airtable account using its Airtable modules.

However, if Instagram needs a FILE instead of a URL, then you'll need to use Make to upload the file to a cloud storage provider first, such as Google Drive using Make's Google Drive modules.

If you need more help, please post screenshots or a video!

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable & Make consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related or Make-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

[ScottWorld]

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[TheTimeSavingCo]

Hmm so you're doing a 'Get record' or something and you can get the URL of the attachment, right?  What error are you getting then?

[lukas-tech]

Hey Scott, hope you are well, thanks for the input. This is my situation now:

I created a table on AirTable (see attached screenshot) where I have my caption for the Instagram post and the video file. The Instagram Module on Make needs a video URL that it can access to post my video but it runs into an error (see attached screenshot). ChatGPT told me that this specific error code usually means that Instagram can't access the video URL publicly or gets blocked to download the video for automatic posting. I tried to do it with a "Video File" + Attachment field in AirTable first, that did not work. Then I tried it with an "URL" field plus box.com URL where I stored my video. Did not work either. I attached the airtable as a screenshot too. Any suggestions to fix this?

[lukas-tech]

Hey, thanks for your help, I just posted a reply to Scott further up with the error and the screenshots. It would be great if you can take a look and tell me what you think or see! 

[lukas-tech]

@ScottWorld @TheTimeSavingCo 

[ScottWorld]

That’s probably not a URL to an actual file. It’s likely the URL to a wrapper webpage that displays a file within the webpage. You need the link to the actual file itself.

Alternatively, Airtable provides you with a URL to the file itself, so you can just store the file in Airtable and use that URL.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld