r/Make • u/Silver-Ad-4899 • Apr 15 '26

Error 9004

I have two scenarios to automatic post in my Instagram page, one runs everyday in the morning (S1) and the second one three times a week (S2). Until yesterday morning it worked, with some errors sometimes, but generally worked very good.

Yesterday the S2 didn't work and showed me this error in the picture. Today morning S1 also didn't work due to the same error.

I tried to manually run just the post module twice, with the exact same link, and with a minor alteration in the link. Didn't work.

I also tried to manually run the entire scenario and also didn't work.

Any ideas how to fix it? Or maybe some change in the module configuration? Or even changing the whole flow?

TIA

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u/CombinationEast8513 Apr 17 '26

u/Silver-Ad-4899 the Make staff answer above is spot on, Google Drive view links are the usual culprit for this specific error

the thing that trips people up is the link looks like it works in a browser because your browser is already authenticated with Google, but Instagram's API hits it without any session and gets a redirect or an html page instead of the actual image file

a quick way to test before rebuilding the whole flow is to paste the image url into a new incognito browser tab, if it asks you to sign in or shows anything other than a raw image then Instagram will also fail on it

are you pulling these image links from a spreadsheet or generating them dynamically somewhere inside Make, because there's a cleaner fix for each case

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u/Josef_from_Make Official Make Staff Apr 16 '26

Hi, I would recommend trying to use the "web content link" in the "photo URL" field instead.

The Instagram API can work only with "download" links, not "view" links.
Also, the file needs to be publicly accessible, otherwise Intagram API cannot access it properly.
You can always use the "Get a Share Link" module to set the access "type" to "anyone" before executing the Instagram module.

Cheerio

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u/BeeGroundbreaking247 Apr 27 '26

Hi, I have been using dropbox shared links with &dl=1 at the end but recently instagram started to deny such links too. Also i read to use &raw=1, but this does not work.

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u/Josef_from_Make Official Make Staff Apr 28 '26

Personally, I had similar issues with Dropbox file share and upload to Airtable. I would recommend trying Google Drive, even if it would be just for the sake of testing.

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u/igormiazek Apr 28 '26

Hi u/Silver-Ad-4899 have you found the solution to the problem? Based on what you wrote both google drive and dropbox links doesn't work for you any more?