Recently, when I was trying to download a gif file from Giphy, I noticed that when I went directly to the file, https://media.giphy.com/media/14kdiJUblbWBXy/giphy.gif for example, that it was actually loading a web page instead of the gif file.
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Now, on this page, you could choose to alternative/right click on the image and then click “Save Image”. But, this will download the image with a
.webp
extension. From there, you can choose to change the extension to .gif
if you’d like. But, I’ll be honest and tell you that I didn’t consider switching the extension at first. So, I dug further.
Mar 28, 2018 Right-click and save image(it’s saved by default as a.gif file I guess). Whenever you want to use it, just copy and paste it. Jan 13, 2020.
I figured that Giphy was probably detecting that based on who/where the request was coming from, so I tried downloading the gif file by running a cURL command. This worked, but it’s not convenient to have to open up a terminal window to run a cURL command.
Luckily, a kind person left a very helpful comment below with an even simpler approach, which I think is the simplest approach overall.
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Simple approach
When we go to a standard Giphy source URL, like https://media.giphy.com/media/14kdiJUblbWBXy/giphy.gif, a web page is loaded instead of the gif that we want. Now, the only thing we have to change for the actual gif to load is to change
media.giphy.com
to i.giphy.com
.
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So, if we take the above example, we could load the actual gif by going to https://i.giphy.com/media/14kdiJUblbWBXy/giphy.gif
From here, we can alternate/right click to download the gif with the correct extension and go on about our day.
Downloading via cURL
This resulted in the actual gif file that I wanted being placed on my Desktop as
download.gif
.
GIF Maker Screen Capture
After you select the TV or GIF icon (or use the hotkey combination above) recording your screen as a GIF is as easy as click and point. Simply select your recording area on your screen, and if you used the hotkey combo, you’ll be prompted to choose to record with or without sound. You can also click on GIF or HD at the bottom of the recording area if you changed your mind on the type of recording you want to start. Just follow these steps:
- Press start to begin the recording.
- Press finish when you are done recording.
- Share the link with your team or customers.
Time-Saving Benefits of the GIF Recorder
The time-saving benefits of using GIFs to communicate with your team and clients are numerous. Here at CloudApp, GIFs help us increase our productivity and complete tasks up to 300% faster. When you think about how many customers can be helped, team members briefed or support tickets answered in that amount of saved time, it makes GIFs a reliable and necessary productivity tool. Here are some of our favorite ways we (along with our customers) use GIFs:
- Use a GIF recorder to create your library of visual answers for customer FAQs in your help desk or support page
- Cut down on time that support teams spend answering the same question with our annotated GIFs feature
- Use GIFs in place of email explanations - a picture is worth a thousand words (and several minutes)
- GIFs help quickly communicate shared goals between teams, helping to cut down on confusion and missed initiatives
- Accurately report a bug to your engineering team. This saves time troubleshooting and you’ll avoid the endless back and forth conversations.
- Boost internal morale with inside jokes, memos and updates
- Communicate lengthy ideas
- Show and not tell clients how to complete tasks and provide them with a visual they can refer back to time and again
- Skip unnecessary team meetings and “stand-up” updates
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Quick and Easy Sharing of GIFs
Ironically, it isn’t typically creating the GIF that takes the most time - it’s sharing it. CloudApp makes it a piece of cake to share your GIF by easily dragging and dropping it into emails or social and working platforms. When it comes to productivity, a simple drag and drop is much quicker than having to download your GIF, then attach it and then finally share. With CloudApp it’s drag, drop and done!
How to Get Started Creating GIFs
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Getting started creating GIFs is as easy as point, click and share. What we love the most about GIFs is that you can immediately reap the benefits of faster productivity and better communication. You don’t have to wait weeks or month to start saving time, improving workflow and making customers happy. Ready to make those improvements now? If you haven’t already, create a CloudApp for free to start implementing the power of GIFs.