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Hello. Am developing an app using Flutter. Would like to find if I can use Airtable as my database. Is there an API that I can use to integrate Airtable with Flutter? Will need to be able to do all CRUD operations. If so, is there any documentation that I can refer to? Thank you!

Welcome to the community, @Rob_N! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: Airtable’s REST API documentation can be found here, including examples that are specific to the bases in your workspace:


You can easily intergrate airtable with Fluttert Using Airtable_Crud package

https://pub.dev/packages/airtable_crud


I personally do not recommend using Airtable as a dedicated backend for any app due to their strict API rate limits. You can build some useful UI using Airtable as a backend, especially forms and such, but if you’re expecting to retrieve live data and interact with it, you will quickly hit the 5 calls/second limit.

We built a 2-way data sync between Airtable and Firebase, which allows us to access any data very quickly without having to make constant API calls to Airtable.


Hi ​@Rob_N  You can absolutely do full CRUD from a Flutter app using Airtable’s REST API.

The docs include auto-generated examples for your own base, plus details on creating, reading, updating, and deleting records (https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/introduction).

In Flutter you’d typically call those endpoints with http/dio or use a community package like airtable_crud, but the core capability is in the REST API itself.

One caution: don’t call Airtable directly from the client with your token. Put a lightweight backend (Cloud Functions, Firebase, Cloud Run, etc.) in front to handle auth and validation, then have Flutter talk to that.

Also design for Airtable’s rate limits 5 requests per second per base, by batching writes, caching reads, and syncing deltas where possible (https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/rate-limits).