Can I use SendGrid in an Automation?

There’s isn’t a built-in integration with SendGrid on Automations but you can call the SendGrid API with a script within an automation. So, the trigger is “when record created”, “when record updated” (or others) and the actions is “Run script”. The script can directly call the SendGrid API, passing relevant data from the record.

The script component within Airtable is written in vanilla JavaScript and the SendGrid API is just a REST-style API, so doesn’t care about the app (or the language of the app) sending API calls to it.

So definitely possible - just needs a bit of script wrangling.

If you’d like to automate SendGrid for sending emails, you would need to turn to an external automation tool such as Make’s SendGrid automations.

However, SendGrid is an extremely difficult platform to work with. I would recommend either using MailerSend or MailGun.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you could instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable. 

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances. For example, in this video, I show how to work with Airtable arrays in Make.

Hope this helps!

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Following on from this, I wrote a post that shows how to do a basic email send via SendGrid using the Airtable scripting app:

This could also be used in an Airtable automation.