Trying to solve the attachment URL expiry problem without Zapier/Make

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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):

  • You select your attachment field.

  • The extension mirrors the file to a permanent bucket in the background.

  • It writes the non-expiring CDN URL back to a field of your choice.

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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.

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This looks cool! My clients use Google Drive instead of S3, so it would be cool if there was a Google Drive version of this.

However, I think the bigger issue here is the same problem that all the extensions have at the moment, which is that Airtable hasn’t yet added extensions to interfaces yet. The vast majority of my clients are exclusively using interfaces.