Clean asset links: Host assets on a site's Custom Domain and don't prepend the names with number ID strings

It would be great if you need to link to an uploaded Webflow resource (ie. a PDF or other) and have it on your own domain and not have the file name be prepended so "pitchscript.pdf" does not change to "872384029387403298wajlhewuhf_pitchscript.pdf". Especially since people want to host with Webflow fully & not have to put it on an external server.

  • Gira Desai
  • Jul 26 2017
  • Max Blum commented
    21 Feb 01:22
    It looks like someone created a custom code snippet to solve this problem in Framer... Is this being prioritized here at Webflow or should I start experimenting with Framer for my next client load?
  • James Allen commented
    14 Feb 08:50

    As an enterprise customer, it's disappointing to see this has been requested since 2017 and has not been addressed yet.


    Please add this to your roadmap. File names should not be prepended with a random string of characters, and we should have the option to have files under our own custom domain name.

  • David Yap commented
    04 Jan 08:51

    Need this one very badly. Cant be showing webflow or other domain other than our client domain.

  • Drew Norman commented
    November 08, 2023 16:37

    We need exactly what Kevin has described below. Ay updates on when this will be in beta would be highly appreciated.

  • Asociacion Victoria Kent commented
    September 21, 2023 22:03

    lo veo totalmente fundamental, esto me limita hacer mucho. Me parece muy poco profesional tener los archivos con ese dominio.

  • Kevin Martins commented
    August 31, 2023 16:08

    THIS IS CRITICAL

    Businesses need this functionality to link directly to PDFs customers frequently access. We need the following features:

    • Asset URLs need to be customizable and come from our custom domain rather than the CDN domain. This is necessary for SEO, and security concerns (Customers might question wether the asset really belongs to the business if the URLs don't match).

    • Assets need the ability to be replaced whilst maintaining the same URL. Imagine posting the Asset link to external sources and then having to make a revision to the asset. Now you have to go and replace all the extrernal source links. (# of Assets × external sources × revisions and it starts getting ridiculous).

  • Brahim Sliti commented
    August 30, 2023 15:26

    Hey! New update since my last post on 22nd May: We were so disappointed in my company about this issue so we decided to build this simple and free tool https://cleanassetlink.com to have this issue solved, it's live now and working so well!!

  • Sathish Kumar commented
    July 17, 2023 11:16

    Hello webflow team, Please add this.

  • Revolte Consulting commented
    July 15, 2023 15:04

    Please the feature is so important and basic.After all efforts of work facing with such problem is not serious.

  • Casey Reid commented
    May 30, 2023 21:13

    Webflow people...please address this. I'm surprised this hasn't been worked in yet after years of people asking for it.

  • Brahim Sliti commented
    May 22, 2023 17:32

    Hello friends,

    I have the same issue so I decided to build an easy app to fix that problem, I am currently launching a WAITING LIST so if you really want that issue to be solved and have professional and clean URLs subscribe here: https://cleanassetlink.webflow.io/

    See you! 👋

  • Guillaume de GreenGo commented
    May 19, 2023 16:18

    This is really basic indeed, such a pain when you make all efforts for having a great experience, clean stuff and your customers download pdf and img with apojnkjfblfd55454dssqdm name in it. 6 years I see this issue is pending, this doesn't sound serious really !

  • Jack Vanstone commented
    March 31, 2023 15:51

    Need to get on with this one, becoming a joke that assets on my site load from uploads.assets.webflows-nans-garage.org/gibberishnumers32423423423-cleanpdf.pdf

  • ASOTU commented
    February 21, 2023 13:23

    This is a crucial element to serving images, css, and js with caching and web friendly images. Not sure why it is not included with webflow custom domain plans.

  • Kady Richardson commented
    February 07, 2023 20:43

    We use PDFs for a lot of our information here and in these cases, the resources in question are PDF documents that have been uploaded to the Resources. Ideally, the slug link would stay the same even if we swap out the PDF that the link directs to. Right now, we have to manually change any button linked to a PDF with the "hard" location of that PDF. It would be much easier to simply edit the resource and change the PDF attached there while leaving all the other fields the same.


  • Rob Boyle commented
    December 23, 2022 13:34

    This is essential and holding me back from launching a project on Webflow

  • Chris brisson commented
    October 03, 2022 16:51

    So basic. PLEASE add this.

  • Savvy Navvy commented
    September 15, 2022 17:24

    This is a terrible implementation of a simple feature, randomly changing file names from what is uploaded is nonsense. You need a logical name which does not have to be unique and what it names the file on download and a storage name that can have a GUID. This feature is useless as it stands.

  • Daniel commented
    September 06, 2022 15:29

    Webflow is an amazing product people. Please upvote if you really think this is a crucial feature!

  • Daniel commented
    September 06, 2022 15:07

    Has this not been resolved after 5 years because tech debt in WebFlow is so bad they can't fix this without massive code rework?


    Webflow hasn't responded at all and this suggestion is in the Top 4 pages of the Wishlist. You can see in other comments this has affected their livelihood and they don't even make a comment. This just makes no sense.


    There are comments that images on a different cdn doesn't affect SEO, however for PDFs it does.

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