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Giphy Integration

Search Giphy for an animated GIF and add it to a slide through Deckyard’s image library.

Setup

Section titled “Setup”

Set GIPHY_API_KEY on the Deckyard server, then enable Giphy as a stock media source in the admin settings. Both the key and the admin toggle are required before Giphy appears in the image picker.

Add a GIF

Section titled “Add a GIF”
  1. Open an image field in the editor and choose Image library.
  2. Open Giphy. The picker shows trending GIFs until you search. Search results load 20 at a time.
  3. Hover over a result to preview its animation, then select it.

Deckyard downloads the original GIF, writes it to the server’s local uploads directory, and creates an image-library entry for the copy. The slide uses that local copy, including when the instance uses S3 for other uploads. Back up the local uploads directory if you use Giphy images.

The picker shows a Powered by GIPHY badge. The image-library entry keeps the GIF’s Giphy page as its source URL.

Limits and troubleshooting

Section titled “Limits and troubleshooting”

Deckyard requests G-rated results and caps each Giphy request at 50 items; the picker requests 20. Giphy controls API-key quotas. If the source is missing, check both GIPHY_API_KEY and the admin toggle. If a search fails, check the server log and the key’s status in your Giphy account.

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