For some reason Glide can’t display image URLs from Instagram profiles / posts. In Airtable I would have to convert these to an image field which I could do via automation - any way to do this in glide?
What’s the url structure you’re currently trying to display? You may try adding “/media/?size=…” to the end of an instagram post link. Try out a template column to automate this.
Seems like you accidentally uploaded the picture itself. Can you check and let us know the structure you’re using?
https://scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/393107596_3688382244753128_4733251351003911559_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s1080x1080&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=108&_nc_ohc=AAhU5G3uz3kAX92uGDl&edm=AOQ1c0wBAAAA&ccb=7-5&ig_cache_key=MzIxNjQyNjY3MTc4MjEwMzM2Mg%3D%3D.2-ccb7-5&oh=00_AfBose30IE0OZmAUdIMVFaVA9gO5hLfB1fM9pVqOuE5Rlg&oe=65359031&_nc_sid=8b3546
thank you!
That URL has a ig_cache_key value that I think might make it temporary. There’s a bunch of other IDs that might contribute to that.
@MegannLock has the right approach there.
Say for this post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyWn_tQyKAH/
The image link (for the first image only anyway) would be:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyWn_tQyKAH/media?size=l
interesting. When I do that with a post it changes the URL to what I had. In Glide, using a template using /media?size=l won’t work in rendering the thumbnails either, even though those are valid urls. Really what it needs to be is a way that it will upload the image from the image url and turn it into a glide image. Any other ideas?
You can try to create a new sheet in your Google Sheets or Excel file, add a column for the Instagram URLs, and create a formula to extract the image URL from the Instagram URL. Then you can link this sheet to your Glide app as a data source and create a new image component to display the extracted image URL.
ahhhh yes it works now there was an extra dash in the template column. Thank you so much