Custom interfaces - can you deploy via github?

You have not mentioned any tech stack here but most likely you need a hosting platform like vercel to deploy your custom interface/app.

From my understanding, you have created a custom interface that pulls data from Airtable via API. So, Airtable can play no role in deploying your custom app in this case. You gotta deploy in on some other server.

This question trips many people up because deploying a custom interface extension isn’t actually a Github API operation at all, which is why the GitHub connector doesn’t have it.

The way it is deployed is through Airtable’s own Blocks CLI (block release), which is authenticated with a personal access token that has the “block:manage” scope for your base.  GitHub only comes into play as your dev environment, a lot of people use Codespaces to edit the extension code with Claude/Copilot and then run the CLI release command from that terminal.  The workflow is first write/edit code in GitHub.  Then run “block release” from the Blocks CLI.  Then ship to your base.  So there is no GitHub API step to automate that publish part.

You’ll probably want to submit this using the Product Idea form:
 

Would really like to be able to to this :D

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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