I followed the instructions found in the thread, Discourse Gifs, however, when applying the API key, when attempting to apply a gif in a post, I still get the same error message that reads as follows: [260b30a0b186699017da47e94f14a6158e4185da] But I did this already. I’ve uninstalled the component and reinstalled the component and after entering the correct API key, I still get the same message. Forgive me, but do I have to “Upgrade to Production Key”? It requires that I somehow take a video of how I will use the “gif” in Discourse. Is this essential to get this working, or is that for huge business sites? We are a very very small site with about 20 users at present. Please advise. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and if anyone has experience getting as far as I have, did I not go far enough? Is there more to do?

I’ve set GIPHY up on one of my sites and I haven’t used the “Upgrade to Production” button. I do recall having a false start setting it up, but I don’t recall the details at the moment. The API key is easy enough to find on the GIPHY dashboard. Make sure it matches giphy api key in the discourse-gifs theme component settings, I guess? The only other non-defaults I have set are: giphy content rating = “pg” limit infinite search results = true Of course I also made sure the component is enabled on the default theme. Not sure this helps you, though. :-/

Thank you, Jon. I’ll give it a shot in the morning and let you know how it goes. Thank you :blush:

Also given recent Giphy announcements regarding price, I’d recommend trying out Tenor too.

[image] Jon Ericson: giphy content rating @jericson, that did the trick! Thank you!

Error: GIFPHY API key is not set

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HisFocus (Tim) February 20, 2024, 1:35pm 7

@jericson, that did the trick! Thank you!

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