Attach a video via Dropbox

[Ed_Cooper]

Can a video be attached to Airtable from Dropbox or a link to drop to it?

[Justin_Barrett]

Video files won’t currently work as attachments, but you can put a Dropbox link into a URL field. Is that what you want?

[Ed_Cooper]

Yes.
Can you show me how to create a url + the folder+filename?
I’m new to Airtable.

[Bill_French]

@Ed_Cooper,

The URL would be from DropBox and stored in an Airtable URL field, so you will need to extract that from DropBox. Sign in, upload a video, then grab the shared URL and that’s the format.

Make sense?

[Ed_Cooper]

Absolutely.
Thank you!!

[Ed_Cooper]

Copied the following URL but got an error message ‘Invalid URL’
Looks ok to me.

[Bill_French]

Is it publicly shared from DropBox?

Share the URL here if you can.

[Ed_Cooper]

https://www.dropbox.com/home/Camping%202019?preview=VID_20190818_154828.mp4

Regards,

Ed Cooper

[Bill_French]

That’s a private link - Airtable is unable to access this content, ergo - it can’t link to it.

[Ed_Cooper]

Ok I’ll work on it tomorrow.

Thanks!

Regards,

Ed Cooper