Development & APIs

Hopefully someone can help. I’m using the airtable API to build a custom app. I want to have a record picker which displays a selection of records, upon selecting the record the resulting report (data based on selection) is rendered. I’ve been playing around and I’m fairly certain “SelectSynced” is going to be my friend. However I’m struggling with a lack of worked code examples (they mostly show table or view selections). Namely; I would like to a) render a < select> populated with data from a record query b) once user has made a selection use the select value to render data from the chosen record Link to api ref for react component: Airtable Blocks SDK //WIP - hard -coded values for testing import { useRecords, useBa

We have the limit of 50 000 automation runs in our plan. Does this limit includes API calls?

So I’m looking to create a simple chart of crypto projects I’m interested in tracking. I’m using a variation of @Nikolay_Tsenkov elegant stock price updater he posted on the Example Script Showcase. I can get it to work with a few securities sites, it pulls stocks in beautifully but when using CoinGecko’s API I keep getting an “Undefined” error. Upon inspection I can see that I’m getting the payload back correctly but no matter how I try to load it, it doesn’t seem to want to go into the table. Is it because the payload is nested within the id? I’m totally stumped on this at this point and could really use some fresh eyes to get me sorted. Here’s an example of the URL string. the `${coin}’ is obvously for pulling the id in from Airtable, in this example I’m using “cardano”: GET: https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3

Not sure what to request about this one, but likely the community has ideas. Recent outages of the Airtable API caused errors in live zapier.com “zaps”. Airtable Status - Incident 3/10/21 Airtable Status - Incident Here in Australia these outages happened in in the midde of the night, but generated zapier error alerts as the zaps are contantly pinging Airtable. This caused a lot of concern for our clients, and then time for us (featurepower.com) to investigate. Hence this post. I couldn’t find any other reference here to this happening. Though I presume many others were affected. So, for in

Hello! I help run https://vacfind.org, a COVID vaccine information site that stores links to helpful websites in Airtable. Given the recent Airtable downtime, I was wondering if it would be possible to have a simple /ping endpoint (or similar) added to the API so that I can configure our caching server to use this endpoint to check whether Airtable is up and if not, configure itself to serve requests from the cache. Does something like this already exist in the Airtable API that I’m not already seeing? ideally id like to not have to configure auth to make a request just to figure out if the Airtable API is up (200 OK) or not (503 Service Unavailable). Thanks, Adrian

I am looking for any documentation on integrating ClickFunnels with Airtable. I have a very simple 2 column Table - Email and a String of Data I can make Get, Post, Purge to work in Postman, but I was told all I need to do is grab the JS out of the API docs and paste it into a CF HTML element. This throws a ‘require not defined error’ My research has lead me to believe I need to use NodeJS or NPM or both, but to be honest I have never worked with either… Is there any documentation on how to get this running?

Hi there, I work for a prison education nonprofit that works with people facing federal crimes. We want to be able to send legal updates and resources to graduates of our classes, and use Airtable to track those graduates. We want to keep our records updated as to when graduates of our classes are transferred to a new federal prison, had their release date changed, or been released. Anyone incarcerated in federal prison is given a register number. You can use that number to get release date and location data from this API. We’ve been using a combination of Python scripts to do this but it’s been clunky and buggy because I’m not that great at Python (frankly I’m not that great at coding, period, but I’m learning). I think we can do this more efficiently with a script in Airtable. Here’s the one catch: every once in a while, someone puts in the wrong register number for our graduates. Is

Hello, We requested access to the Metadata API last month, but haven’t heard back yet. Is Airtable still giving access to the metadata API? We run formcrafts.com and would like to build an integration with Airtable :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi All, we use Airtable to manage our social media and one cell has a list of hashtags (one on each line) and we’d like to figure out a formula to shuffle the lines so the hashtags don’t post in the same order every time. Any ideas?

I am working on importing and managing data of device details on the cloud with API. I am a beginner and don’t have experience with coding. I was wondering if you can help me because my team is struggling with the data management of our clients while waiting on developing new tools (released in 5 weeks). The old tool is broken at the moment… We have airtable that can download (to airtable) and upload (to the server) info for the devices (about 4 fields) on airtable sheet. Using a script for that. I also saw script here in community that can delete all data from airtable sheet, but is it possible to use this script with the modification that deletes corresponding data on the server using api? For example: I download a list of devices with info on 4 fields. (name, code, mac address, NFC number) Copy selected devices or rows in airtable (not all, just ones that I want to delete) to the new airtable sheet. Click the button in the new sheet to

Hello! I am looking for a way to import data using a URL that connects to a CSV and merge existing records on a recurring basis. This can be through a click of a button or the script running in the background. The CSV could also come from google sheets. Which of the following would be easiest to automate the importing of the CSV? Using the Scripting block and creating a button that will trigger the CSV import app? The automation with run a script every hour to trigger the CSV import app? Google scripts on the Google sheets with the Airtable API to import the CSV? If anyone has a built a similar script and is willing to share the script please do! The ideal would then be to have additional columns in the base that only sit in Airtable. Due to data privacy concerns, we cannot use a third-party extension. Thanks in advance!

I have grouped some fields in my Airtable. How can I get a specific “count” or a “sum” with API? How can I access this data through API? I am interested in getting the different counts and sums for each group. I.e: Score_act: sum 41 Task: “Jeg har koblet av med noe underholdende”: count 4 (times this task had been completed). Is this possible? Regards, Tor M

Hi all! I’m trying to remix the Wikipedia Enrichment app from Github. I’ve got everything installed and it’s working great, but I can’t get the app to release to Airtable’s servers. I’m getting zero feedback from Terminal when I put in $ block release. Right after it gives me the address to plug in a line shows up “Switched to a new block installation.” I’m not really sure why it keeps doing that. I’m on Big Sur 11.2.2 with Xcode command line extra tools installed, with a lower version of Node (14.15.0) installed because I noticed people with Big Sir are having problems. Any suggestions or what other information would you need to diagnose? Thanks everyone!

I’ve installed the Scripting app, but the input area in the upper left corner keeps loading and I can’t input any script. This happened after I ran the “Sync Airtable Base Structure” script provided by “miniExtensions”. I’m a beginner, so I don’t know how to solve this problem. If anyone knows how to solve this problem, please let me know. Thank you very much for your help.

I’m trying to use @Kamille_Parks Script No-Conflict Appointment Scheduler but I’m having a slight issue trying to set it up to allow Same day Scheduling currently it only allows appointments as soon as the next day. Any ideas? I found the line 266 //loopdates.push(loopCurrent); //NOTE: uncomment this to allow same-day scheduling but i wasn’t able to get it to work. Following is the script I am using with changes i made. /* Script: No-Conflict Appointment Scheduler Author: Kamille Parks This is the sister-script to my "No-Conflict Asset Reservations" script. This script performs a similar function, however this one is built for appointment/reservations which start and end on the same day. It allows users to select a service, pick a qualified agent/employee to perform that service, and then select upcoming dates and times which work for that agent. The script opts to use buttons

Hi all, I’m at my wits end. I’ve written code for Airtable locally, which largely works. Now I’d like to place the code on a cloud functions tool so I can run my code on the browser and have it communicate with other APIs. Here’s the code I have on the serverless tool, just the basics first just trying to call the airtable library. /** * main() will be run when you invoke this action * * @param Cloud Functions actions accept a single parameter, which must be a JSON object. * * @return The output of this action, which must be a JSON object. * */ var Airtable = new require('airtable'); var base = new Airtable({apiKey: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXX'}).base('appumWMhUzhgN8fFe'); function main(params) { return { message: 'Hello World' }; } When I try to run this code, I get Error: Cannot find module ‘airtable’\n In this case I’m using IBM Cloud Functions, but the process as I also re

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Can't create table: invalid field config for field 'games_id'. Creating or updating options for multipleRecordLinks fields is not supported at this time. Is there any other mechanism or workaround for this? When creating a table, or updating a table?

I wonder if anyone can point me to the right direction. I’m tasked to create a base for simple school administration for a small NPO. The use-case is quite simple: a Program contains multiple classes a Class contains multiple students a Student may attend more than one programs Based on the above processes, I’ve created a base with four tables: Student, Program, Class, and Attendance. the Student Table lists all of the students, and each student record would also link to multiple Program records, multiple Class records, and multiple Attendance records the Program Table lists all of the programs, and each program record would also link to multiple Class records and the students records the Class Table lists all of the classes, and each class record would also link to its parent program record and students and the Attendance Table is a junction table between Class Table and the Student Table

Hi, new to Airtable, so this may be a dumb question; apologies in advance if so. Is there a way to dynamically update single select field options from an API? For example, looking to have a list of item types to select for a record, ex: Server, Workstation, Switch This master list is contained in another system but accessible via rest API. Is there a way so that in the far end system, if “Router” is added as an item option, the Airtable option list for that field will now contain “Server, Workstation, Switch, Router”?

Hello AirTable Team! This may a simple ‘request’ to some of you. Here’s my ask… What’s the best way to use the API from Most Trusted Cryptocurrency Market Data API | CoinMarketCap to Get the data (list of all cryptocurrencies) - initial Update the data (list of all cryptocurrencies) and append new crypto currencies to the list I have my Coinmarketcap API key to get the free data Not sure if I should use scripting or pay for DataFetcher account Hoping someone can help Thanks in advance, Paul

I am trying to create a new contact record in Airtable using Zapier - linked to Hubspot. This should be really simple but I get this error: “Could not find field “fields” in the request body” When searching in community, this suggests a cdoding error in the API request - which suggests to me the Zapier-Airtable API is not set up properly \nd I cannot change this. I am not a techie - all solutions welcome!

Hi everyone, I am writing a micro-service where I want to accept a field, look for its record, and return with data from its record. Ideally, I also want to make it not case-sensitive. But I am having multiple issues with it. Firstly, unwrapping the string is “SELECT” is not working for me. It works if I just pass a string but not when I try to unwrap a variable (according to a solution I found on this forum. Secondly, how do I make it not case sensitive? is this possible if I have to write something custom (as in fetching everything and manually search through). Here is my current code. export const getDefinition = async (userInput: String) => { console.log('this is from getDefinition!!!', userInput) //configure Airtable// Airtable.configure({ endpointUrl : process.env.AIRTABLE_URL, apiKey: process.env.AIRTABLE_API_KEY }) const data = base(process.env.AIRTABLE_TABLE_NAME).select({ filterByFormula : `{term} = "${userInput}"` }).eachPage((reco

I’m trying to write a script for an automation that creates a list of all the companies which bought a certain material. (input.config() has two variables: materialUsed and recordID) However, I want the output pushed onto the Contact field which is in the record (which itself is a link to the “Companies” table). In short, when I add a new record, I want the Contact field to autopopulate with the links to all the relevant companies. The output.set displays an array of the correct companies, but I can’t seem to figure out how to push each of the results using the updateRecordAsync(). Thank you. // query for all the records in a table let table = base.getTable("Companies"); let searchPO = base.getTable("SearchPO"); let materialsBought = table.getField("Materials Bought") var material = input.config(); let result = await table.selectReco

Hi everyone - I’m a total beginner to Node js but it’s very frustrating, that after hours of searching on Airtable Docs as well as through the community, I can’t seem to find the answer to one of the most basic things a user would want to do with a database. In short - I’m trying to do a lookup. Given a “phone number” of “(454) 382-9029”, I want to return the “Full Name” of “Carol Lerner”. I want Airtable to access the right record and the code to print the “Full Name”. In Excel this takes 2 seconds to do. I’m at a loss why this has been so difficult to find code for on Airtable Docs or Community on Node js. I know that I’m a beginner. I’m not sure why it’s so difficult to see how to do something like this. My code won’t really be of much help here as I keep getting errors when I try to run it. Thanks for taking a look and hope you can help.

Is there a way to tell table.updateRecordAsync what field to update with a variable? I have a table that tracks the date a person receives multiple trainings. Each training has a date field. I’m able to hard code the field in table.updateRecordAsync, but I haven’t figured out a way to do it with a variable, even a string type variable. This would allow me to have one script where one could select the training to update, rather than a script for each training. Here is my code: await recordTable.updateRecordAsync(record,{ '*INSERT VARIABLE HERE': date }); I also tried using the usual javascript way of inserting variables into strings like this: await recordTable.updateRecordAsync(record,{ `${fieldString}`: date }); This just gives me lots of errors.