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A Dribbble post is a shot: one image, a title and a description. The image isn’t an attachment to the post — it is the post, so a Dribbble channel behaves unlike every other channel in Ocoya.

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Connect Dribbble

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Open Channels

Select Channels in the left sidebar, then Connect channel.
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Choose Dribbble

Pick Dribbble from the Add a connection panel.
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Authorize on Dribbble

Ocoya sends you to Dribbble to approve two things: reading your public profile, so the connection can be named after it, and permission to upload shots.
Dribbble’s access doesn’t expire, so the connection lasts until you revoke it on Dribbble. There’s nothing to reconnect every few weeks. Only players and teams can upload through Dribbble’s API. A regular Dribbble account that hasn’t been given uploading rights will connect but fail at publish.

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What you can post

A shot needs its image. Unlike other channels, a link can’t stand in for one.

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Dribbble takes two image sizes, and no others

Dribbble accepts a shot at exactly 400×300 or 800×600 and turns down everything else — its web uploader resizes for you, its API doesn’t. So Ocoya sizes the image on the way out:
  • A still that isn’t already one of those sizes is fitted into 800×600 over a blurred fill. Nothing is cropped away.
  • A GIF is cropped to 4:3 instead, because the service that can reshape one without flattening the animation has no padding option. A GIF smaller than 400×300 can’t be used at all — Dribbble won’t upscale.
The composer warns you before publish when an image will be reshaped, so there are no surprises on the day.

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The title

Every shot needs a title, up to 255 characters. Leave it empty and Ocoya uses the first line of your caption. With nothing to work from it falls back to Untitled shot, which you don’t want on your profile — so set one, or open the caption with a strong first line.

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Tags come from your hashtags

Dribbble has a tags field rather than in-body hashtags, so Ocoya lifts the hashtags out of your caption and files them as tags — up to 12. Hyphens and underscores become spaces, so #ui-design becomes the tag ui design. Your description keeps the caption exactly as written, hashtags included.

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Dribbble’s limits

The description limit is Ocoya’s guard rail — Dribbble publishes no number of its own.

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Common problems

“Posting on Dribbble requires 1 image or GIF.” The shot has no image. Text alone, or a link, isn’t a shot. “Dribbble shots cannot exceed 8 MB.” The file is over Dribbble’s size cap after resizing. Export it smaller. “GIF is too small for Dribbble, which needs at least 400x300.” Dribbble won’t upscale. Re-export the GIF larger. “This Dribbble account cannot upload shots. Only players and teams can publish through the API.” The account doesn’t have uploading rights on Dribbble. That’s a Dribbble account status, not something Ocoya can grant. “Dribbble was connected without upload access.” The authorization was approved without the upload permission. Reconnect and approve uploading shots. “Dribbble accepted the shot but did not report it.” Dribbble processes shots after accepting them, and this one didn’t appear in time. Check your Dribbble profile before republishing — it may well be there.

Character and media limits

Every network’s limits side by side.

The post editor

Writing a different version per channel.