Hi, I am looking to transfer images automatically to an FTP address as they hit Frame. I have tried to connect Zapier to perform this task but its not pulling images. I’m a photographer not a developer so If anyone knows of a simple low tech solution that would be great!
hi @craigbarritt Zapier only allows for Remote Upload, meaning you need to have a link publicly available in order to use that. Zapier doesn’t allow for local uploads so there’s no way to pick up the file when it hits the FTP server.
You could try using our Frame.io - Video Collaboration App - App Store to have a watch folder upload, or better yet if you have a camera that supports Camera to Cloud, you could just upload directly from your camera to Frame.io.
Otherwise, you could ask Claude Code or Cursor to write a script using our SDKs that monitors the folder and then uploads to your account. You’ll need to implement OAuth, which can be confusing if you don’t know how to, but I should have something to help with that next week (depending on code reviews) in our SDK.
Hi Charlie, thank you so much for the reply.
I didn’t explain clearly sorry. I am trying to send images from Frame to the FTP client. The camera can send directly to Frame.io but it doesn’t seem to notify Zapier when an image hits the folder in. order to complete the task of sending to the FTP.
@craigbarritt my apologies you said it correctly, I just reversed it in my head. In Zapier you would use the “File Upload Completed” or “File Ready” trigger to then get the response and use the “Show File” action with the Include “media_links.original” to get the download url in order to download it to your FTP.
You may want to filter based on image type, or only to the Cloud_Devices folder so that you don’t get everything uploaded to Frame.io sent to your FTP (unless you want that).
Hope that helps!
Thanks Charlie.
It does seem to be sending now from the folder but the images don’t transfer.
This is what I get from the FTP end
Hi @craigbarritt can you show your current zapier workflow? It’s been a while since I’ve used FTP so will have to setup a server on my end to help troubleshoot
