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How do I connect to Airtable with token using python?

  • August 21, 2023
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I am new to Airtable development and this token thing is very confusing to me. How do I connect to Airtable to update or create my records using python?

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GavinA
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  • February 13, 2024

Airtable personal access tokens are Bearer tokens, and so should be passed in the "Authorization" header of any API request. The token will need the prefix "Bearer ". So if your token is abc123, the Authorization request header will be "Bearer abc123". 

If you would like to learn more about Request headers and bearer tokens, here is a walkthrough