# Any way to upload files from an image URL field to a Glide Image field?
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096
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**Created:** [October 19, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096 "2023-10-19T01:46:20Z")
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### Author:  [@Airbid](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Airbid)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/1 "2023-10-19T01:46:20Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@MegannLock](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MegannLock)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/2 "2023-10-19T02:20:55Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Airbid](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Airbid)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 2:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/3 "2023-10-19T02:58:29Z")
> [@MegannLock](#):
>
> /media/?size=
hmm that didn’t work - the structure is
could it have something to do with the fact that these urls may be temporary?
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/4 "2023-10-20T00:33:16Z")
Seems like you accidentally uploaded the picture itself. Can you check and let us know the structure you’re using?
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### Author:  [@Airbid](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Airbid)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/5 "2023-10-20T00:45:04Z")
```auto
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!
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/6 "2023-10-20T00:55:44Z")
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:
```auto
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyWn_tQyKAH/
```
The image link (for the first image only anyway) would be:
```auto
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyWn_tQyKAH/media?size=l
```
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### Author:  [@Airbid](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Airbid)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/7 "2023-10-20T01:14:40Z")
> [@ThinhDinh](#):
>
> `/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?
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### Author:  [@Jamessmith0901](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jamessmith0901)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/8 "2023-10-20T03:11:32Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Airbid](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Airbid)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/9 "2023-10-21T00:51:15Z")
so I tried that but the image component in glide says image not found (even though in sheets it was rendered)
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/10 "2023-10-21T00:59:10Z")
Is that the “displayUrl” column?
The format I gave you earlier works just fine with an image component.
Have you tried creating a template column with that format?
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### Author:  [@Airbid](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Airbid)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/11 "2023-10-21T01:13:44Z")
ahhhh yes it works now there was an extra dash in the template column. Thank you so much
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/any-way-to-upload-files-from-an-image-url-field-to-a-glide-image-field/67096/12 "2023-10-28T01:13:50Z")
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