Kuovonne's Guide to Airtable
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In scripting, I tend to wait a few seconds and then check for a thumbnail url. If the there is a thumbnail url, the attachment is good to go. If there is no thumbnail (for a file type that can get a thumbnail), I wait a few more seconds. If there still isn’t a thumbnail, I either fail and warn the user or I try again with a cache-busting variation on the source url, depending on the use case.
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