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API for images

API for images

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The community member wants to replace Webflow with a combination of Webstudio and Airtable, but they are facing an issue with Airtable's expiring image links in the Rich Text feature. They are considering using a hosting service like Cloudflare or running a script/automation in Airtable to get permanent image links. Another option they are considering is creating an interface for content editors to upload images.

The comments suggest that Airtable may not even support images inside Rich Text, and the community members discuss potential workarounds, such as storing HTML in Airtable cells and mapping it to Webstudio, or storing images in an attachment field and populating them on the Webstudio side. However, there is no clear answer provided, and the community members suggest that Airtable might not be the right tool for the job and that the community member should consider other options, such as Strapi, for a more generic CMS solution.

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I want to replace Webflow with a combination of Webstudio and Airtable.
It's necessary to have Rich Text with images.
Currently, I face a problem where Airtable provides an expiring link for images. So, if I use this link in the Rich Text, by the time it’s published in Webstudio, the link might be outdated, resulting in the image not being displayed.

Yes, I could use some hosting service like Cloudflare, but this is definitely something that could be streamlined.

It would be great if I could run a script/automation in Airtable to get permanent links for the images.

Or maybe I want to create an interface for content editors, in which case I need to have a form for uploading images.

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Does airtable even support images inside rich text? From my information it does NOT.

but even if they do, it sounds weird, if you are using an api key, images should be provided, need to investigate why you are seeing what you are seeing

maybe its because the api response is cached and image urls get outdated because they rotate their image ids?

can you compare the image url for the exact same image, between the times when it worked, then when it stopped working, refetching the api call and making it work again, and getting the url and comparing the 2 image urls

if they changed for the same image ...

i can store html in airtable cell and map it to webstudio embed html

in this way i have to set img src as url, not a some kind of variable depeneded to airtable field

so you are writing html in airtable text field, then writing image tag inside that html and src pointing to airtable image?

that is the point. i can not set airtable image as src

have no any variable for this, and their urls is expiring

that's airtable limitation, its literally not having the feature of using images inside rich text

there isn't much you can do about it imho

I would reach out to baserow ask if they would want to add this

they currently have the same problem

can i store images on the Webstudio side?

like usual asset manager

you can't link them from external rich text

or at least you shouldn't

what are you building? sounds like you are using the wrong tool for the job

im just interested in your product. thinking about move from webflow. images inside rich texts is the last barrier

I understand, but airtable might be the wrong tool here

what are you building exactly?

looking for low code stack, that will be more powerful than webflow.

mb i can store all images for rich text in attachment field and just map them in rich text by special tags. So i can get all data in one api call and path the rich limitation.
just need to populate them on webstudio side

so you want one generic cms for any use cases, not per use case?

if you want something generic, maybe you should look into strapi and similar

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