I have a Zap set up to create an entry in Journey when I publish a post on Tumblr. However, I can’t figure out how to include an image. I believe I need something in the Media URL field, but nothing I’ve tried there works. What, if anything, should I put there? And if there’s something different I should be doing, what is it?
I have similar Instagram to Journey zap set up, and it was pretty straightforward, so I’m feeling really stumped.
Hi
Good question.
The Tumblr trigger would need to include a link to a publicly accessible direct download link of a file OR a file object.
File objects look like: File (exists but not shown)
Hi
Good question.
The Tumblr trigger would need to include a link to a publicly accessible direct download link of a file OR a file object.
File objects look like: File (exists but not shown)
Thanks for the quick reply, Troy. I don’t see any file object option come up when I click on the Media URL field. A link makes sense, but I don’t know what that link would be. I tried a link I copied from a different photo on a different post, but then the zap uses that particular photo instead of the photo contained in a new post. I hope that makes sense.
Can you post screenshots with all the data points returned from the Zap trigger step?
I hope a short video is acceptable.
Did you try either of the data points relate to the image?
Search for “http” to narrow the results.
Yes. The only links provided are links to the Tumblr post itself and images in the Tumblr blog theme. I will say that the Body HTML will include the photo if I paste the code into the Text field. But that doesn’t give me what I want. With Instagram and (in the past) Twitter acting as triggers, the photo is included separately, which Journey would attach to the Journey post instead of embedding it.
I beginning to think this a shortcoming in the Tumblr API and perhaps there’s no solution.
If the Body HTML is returned from Tumblr then that can be parsed to isolate the link to use.
Yes, there are several links ending with .jpg within the Body HTML like this one https://64.media.tumblr.com/e9635e11620fe58ef55b6afc984ce932/ad319baf7a46454b-83/s1280x1920/b348d516cb0e40f5fed124572dc3a35c2d3898db.jpg
But when I paste that into the Media URL field, that image is used for every post instead of the new image.
You would need to use a Zap step to dynamically parse out the image link from the HTML.
Some options:
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