# Airtable image links that never expire

> Airtable attachment links expire. VibeKit's don't — your photos stay up.

Your app's photos keep loading long after Airtable's own attachment links have expired.

Airtable's attachment URLs are temporary by design. The link the API hands you works today and
expires later — quietly. Hot-link those images on a website and everything looks perfect at
launch; come back after a while and your product photos, headshots, and logos have decayed into
broken-image icons. No error, no warning, just gaps where pictures used to be.

Your photos should not have a half-life. VibeKit serves images on links that simply keep working,
so a site that looked right on launch day still looks right months later.

## Why Airtable images break

Every attachment URL Airtable returns is built to expire. That's fine inside Airtable itself, but
anyone who copies those URLs into a website ships a page that silently rots. It's one of the most
common ways an Airtable-backed site degrades — and because the images load fine at first, nobody
notices until a visitor does.

## Links with no expiry date

When your app reads records through VibeKit, attachment fields come back with VibeKit's own image
links instead of Airtable's temporary ones. Each link is signed — it can't be guessed, and one
app's images are never reachable from another — and the image is delivered through the proxy with
long-lived caching, so it loads fast and keeps loading. Images get the same treatment as the rest
of your data: served from cache, instantly (see [edge cache](/products/vibekit/features/edge-cache)).

## On by default

There is nothing to switch on and nothing to configure. The data your agent receives already
contains working image URLs, so it builds pages the ordinary way — an image tag pointing at a
link that stays alive. The [ready-made prompts](/products/vibekit/features/agent-ready-prompts) VibeKit writes for
your agent describe exactly this shape, so the first version it builds is already the durable one.

## What that means for your site

No re-uploading attachments to separate hosting. No image pipeline to maintain. No discovering,
three weeks after launch, that half your gallery is blank. Your photos stay up because the links
underneath them never go bad.

## Questions this page answers

- airtable attachment url expired
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- permanent url for airtable attachments
- why do airtable image links break
- stable image urls for airtable

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