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.

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]

No, @Bolatito's response above is incorrect.

Airtable's URL is actually public for 2 hours after accessing it via the API, so as I mentioned above in my previous post, you can access the URL via Airtable's API.

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.

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

[ScottWorld]

No, you are 100% incorrect, and it sounds like you are a fake robot account / fake user account using AI to write up your responses. Please do not reply to a conversation to which you have absolutely no knowledge or no helpful information to add.

Because you are not even a real person, you have never used Make before, nor have you ever used Zapier before.

A scenario in Make runs in a matter of seconds/minutes, which is far less than the 2 hours that it takes for the URL to expire. The URL from Airtable is always accessible by Make and any other API tool that needs access to it. After it gets accessed, that URL is available for 2 hours.

However, this only provides a URL as a file download link. If an actual binary file is needed instead of a file download link, a cloud storage provider is required.

[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?