Display GIF through custom liquid section

Technical Q&A
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Topic summary

Main issue: How to host and display large GIFs (>20MB) in a Shopify theme via a custom HTML/CSS Liquid section.

Context: Shopify’s Files upload limit is 20MB; GIFs under that size work. The poster can’t find an external service that provides a direct link that works within the custom Liquid section. (Liquid is Shopify’s templating language.)

Follow-up: Another participant asks if a solution was found.

Status: No solution or recommendations shared; discussion remains unresolved.

Outstanding questions:

  • Which external hosting/CDN options provide direct, embeddable URLs for large GIFs that render correctly in Shopify’s custom HTML/CSS Liquid section?
  • Are there specific requirements (e.g., content-type headers, hotlinking permissions, or URL formats) needed for compatibility?

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Summarized with AI on January 14. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hello, I wonder where I can save GIF’s bigger than 20MB and create a link that works with the custom HTLM/CSS liquid section.
When files are smaller than 20MB shopify works great for this but unfortunately max size is 20MB.

I really can’t seem to fins any place that can create a proper link the works in the custom HTLM/CSS liquid section.

Best Regards

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Were you ever able to figure this out?