Hi! i’ve been trying to connect my airtable records to automatically publish in my social media but I keep encountering this error message. Can someone help me?
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Failed to create an update in Buffer: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'ext')
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Best answer by Matt_os
If somebody is still encountering this issue, I have found a solution that worked for me:
when sending an image url to zapier, the extension must be present in the url sent in order for it to work, for example:
https://placehold.co/600x400 will throw the error mentioned
https://my-site.com/image.png will work (as long as the image is _publicly_ accessible)
hope that helps the next person, I spent about 20 minutes testing all sorts of things while the image url was the problem for me
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Before we dig deeper into this, could you please try reconnecting your Buffer account here: https://zapier.com/app/connections/buffer. If you have multiple Buffer connections kindly delete them and add a new connection.
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+6- Zapier Staff
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Thanks for giving that a try!
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Was there resolve to this issue? I’ve been searching for an answer as well. I have the same problem. Discord > Buffer “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'ext')”
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Hi
My hunch here is that this has something to do with the file extension. It's possible the files no longer exist - or the links no longer work to open the actual image files.
Hopefully, this helps. 😊
If somebody is still encountering this issue, I have found a solution that worked for me:
when sending an image url to zapier, the extension must be present in the url sent in order for it to work, for example:
https://placehold.co/600x400 will throw the error mentioned
https://my-site.com/image.png will work (as long as the image is _publicly_ accessible)
hope that helps the next person, I spent about 20 minutes testing all sorts of things while the image url was the problem for me
+6- Zapier Staff
Hi
Just wanted to drop a quick thank you for sharing your solution to the issue in this thread. It's really going to be a big help to everyone in our Community.
So glad you circled back to post this – really appreciate it!
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