What your AI can do
Give it a public link and your AI can put an image or a video straight onto a post or a catalogue product: ask for it in its own chat and it calls the connector, which downloads the file and adds it. You do not need to open ōrbita.
Formats and limits are the same as uploading a file by hand: jpg, png, webp or gif up to 10 MB; mp4, mov or webm up to 100 MB. A post allows up to 20 images and 1 video. A catalogue product allows up to 20 images and 5 videos, and whichever photo it has first becomes its main photo.
It also works on a task. Give it a public link and your AI can attach the file straight to a task: ask for it in its own chat and it calls the connector, which downloads the file and adds it. Formats are wider here because tasks also allow documents: images jpg, png, webp or gif up to 10 MB; videos mp4, mov or webm up to 100 MB; documents pdf, doc, docx, ppt or pptx up to 100 MB. A task allows up to 30 files.
What it cannot do
Three cases that do not work, and why:
- A file you drop into the Claude or ChatGPT chat. It stays in that chat’s private workspace (its “sandbox”): your AI can see it, but ōrbita has no way to reach in and fetch it.
- An image the AI generated itself (for example, with ChatGPT). The link it shows you is temporary and tied to your open session: by the time ōrbita tries to download it, it no longer works.
- A private link, or one starting with
httpinstead ofhttps. If the file needs a sign in to view, or the connection is not secure, ōrbita cannot download it.
In any of these three cases, your AI explains why and gives you the link to this guide so you can upload it by hand.
It also cannot publish or schedule the post (you decide that in ōrbita), or tick the declarations each network requires by hand (for example, branded content on TikTok).
How to share a public link
From Google Drive. Right click the file, choose Share, change access to “Anyone with the link” and copy the link. ōrbita recognises both common Drive link formats (.../file/d/ID/view and ...?id=ID) on its own; the file has to still be public at the moment your AI uses it.
From Canva. Open the design, click Share and use the download or export link, not the “view and comment” link to the design, which is not a downloadable file.
From your own website. Any image or video published on your website works: copy the direct address of the file (right click the image and choose “Copy image address”, or the link your content manager shows).
An example
In your AI’s chat:
Attach this photo to Friday’s post: https://drive.google.com/file/d/XXXXXXXX/view
Your AI confirms which post it touched and gives you its direct link in ōrbita.
Only on some networks
If a post goes out on several networks, you can tell your AI to have a file show up on only some of them: it attaches the file to the post first, then decides network by network which ones keep it. If you say nothing, each network inherits the post’s files.
An example:
Add this photo from Drive to Friday’s post, but only have it show up on Instagram.
If the link fails, upload it by hand
You can always do it yourself: open the link your AI gives you (or the post from the Calendar or Drafts) and, in the production step, use the add media button to upload the image or video from your computer or phone.
Who it is for
Included in every plan, at no extra cost. It is part of the “Create drafts and edit posts” permission for posts, and the catalogue permission for products; review them in Connections > Connected AIs.