Cloud destinations

Connect SnapMonkey and route saved media automatically.

What is a destination?

A destination is a place LiftMonkey can send saved media automatically, without you having to download and re-upload it. When you connect a destination and mark it as your default, every completed extraction gets routed there as soon as it's ready.

Connecting a destination

  1. Sign in, open Destinations from the main nav, and click Add destination.
  2. Give it a friendly name (e.g. "My SnapMonkey").
  3. Pick a connector type (see the list below).
  4. Fill in the connector-specific fields.
  5. Tick Set as default destination if you want automatic routing.
  6. Save. LiftMonkey validates the configuration when the first media request runs against it.

Available connectors

SnapMonkey

Status: Live

SnapMonkey is our sibling product for routing files to cloud destinations (S3, Azure, Google Cloud Storage, FTP/SFTP, and more). Point LiftMonkey at a SnapMonkey account and every save is handed off as a single API call.

What you need:

  • The API URL of your SnapMonkey instance (e.g. https://snapmonkey.example.com).
  • An API key generated from your SnapMonkey account.

Amazon S3

Status: Coming soon

Direct S3 upload is in the destinations picker but not yet enabled. If you need S3 routing today, run it through SnapMonkey — SnapMonkey speaks S3 natively and LiftMonkey hands off cleanly to it.

Default destination

You can have multiple destinations saved, but only one acts as the default for automatic routing. Mark one as default with the checkbox on the destination form. Changing the default doesn't affect past deliveries — only future extractions.

How deliveries work

  • As soon as the extraction succeeds, LiftMonkey queues a delivery job for your default destination.
  • If a delivery fails (network blip, destination temporarily unavailable), we retry up to 3 times with exponential backoff.
  • You'll see delivery status on the request's History entry: pending, processing, completed, or failed.
  • A failed delivery never loses the media — the Download button on the status page keeps working.

Can I route to more than one destination?

Not yet. Today each request fans out to a single default destination. If you need multi-destination fan-out, configure that on the SnapMonkey side — SnapMonkey can accept the file once and split it across multiple storage targets.