What isHappening with the Attachment Field…

[M_k]

Hi Airtable Community!

I wanted to know what the latest update is for images added to the Attachment field.

A while ago there were big discussions about the change that Airtable has wanted to make.

It was supposed to come into effect this month (November).

[Greg_F]

Hi @M_k

The URL for attachments files expires 2 hours you have retrieved it via API.

Perfectly good to use in automations and uploading the file to other systems. Should not be used as long term share link or a permanent image source for web.

Here is a full write up:

support.airtable.com

Changes to Airtable Attachments | Airtable Support

In an effort to increase attachment security, on November 8th, 2022 Airtable will be incorporating expiring links functionality. That...

And here some other discussions about it:

Breaking change: URLs to attachments have been modified API

Hi guys, It looks like a change has happened overnight - URLs to attachments have changed from this structure: https://dl.airtable.com/.attachments/d656d5c54fbc38ad9195c2f62cd02dae/5eb64051/Supreme_Apex-1120x740.jpg To this structure: https://v5.airtableusercontent.com/v1/10/10/1668182400000/q_tvhAt9ivi_oCjJ5LvWQQ/ghcs73y0Vma8Rz6c7EJaen3sRTVMOCrqmPpkS38kxl2SOiMEE5boOfVOorY5nfQ9PZkrQCYfehg76B4CcI8-MA/1wi2qtg7XnHCVhZhtKjxg_BXwwegwsGxphbPlJRYlao This has broken our API integrations for saving …

Airtable dropping support for public attachments :bomb: Collaboration

Hi all - My name is Al and I’m on the ecosystem team here at Airtable. I wanted to jump in and say thank you for sharing your feedback with us on this topic. We’ve updated our FAQ documentation based on the conversation here to answer many of the common questions we’ve seen so far. We also wanted to share some insights into how we’re thinking about this change. While Airtable is used for many things, it was not designed to be a cloud-storage solution that specializes in file hosting, permissio…