URL-Tags Demo
URL-Tags For Getting A “Secure, Expiring URL”
Use this tag to get back a secure, expiring and raw URL for your media file on S3, which you can then use to create your own HTML within your blog post – say to create your own image that says “Click here to download” that points to this expiring URL.
Basically, wherever you insert the following URL tag, the tag will be replaced by the secure expiring URL a link to your file.
So this…
[s3mv]businesscard-proof.pdf,url[/s3mv]
becomes this…
http://s3mediavault.com.s3.amazonaws.com/businesscard-proof.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=1HPS101KFMM8SKNK9BG2&Expires=1337445309&Signature=SH83WIws8jAsI%2BMrhVwZTRXBGsQ%3D
And if you wish to display a full-fledged downloadable link that points to a file on Amazon S3, with some link text that says “Click here to download…”, then you could do something like this…
<a href="[s3mv]businesscard-proof.pdf,url[/s3mv]"> Click here to download my super-duper-freakin-awesome report </a>
WARNING 1: DO NOT REPLACE THE TEXT “url” in the shortcode above. It must remain as “url”.WARNING 2: YOUR FILE NAME SHOULD NOT START WITH http://….
Example A: Using this “Expiring URL” to create your own HTML link
Click here to download my super-duper-freakin-awesome report
Example B: Creating an Image-based download link:
Click here to downloadUsers can then just click on the link, or do a “Right-Click, Save-As” and save the file to their computer.
- Ravi Jayagopal
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July 21, 2010 @ 1:38 pm
[...] can’t necessarily play all video formats, you can still use S3MV to generate Link Tags and URL Tags, to display “Click here to download” type downloadable links to any file of any format [...]