Development & APIs

I’m new to JS and been playing around with the scripting block, quite alot. I’ve been wondering about the use of the await keyword. I think i learned somewhere that await can only be used to consume promises inside async functions. Await is used in the main code. Is it me who is wrong or is the script block one big async function?

I’m trying to submit a url query with a filterByFormula to return only dealerships that have the specific brand in them. The brand side is linked, so it’s in a list on the return response and it’s by record ID. How do I build a filterByFormula that will look into a list instead of just the 2nd level value within fields?

Can we automate in a way where we can delate the duplicate entry in airtable on the basis of time stamp or the previous entry?

When I add a new row in X table and click te button a script would copy all rows from /table into table. Is it possible with using script? I developed a script like below but it doesn’t work.

Back to Script-Block, I have recent memories of very regular python practices like: creating an environment (VENV); PIP install a library of my choice inside this VENV; importing that library into my python code; using it in my python code so I don’t have to rewrite it myself! My python is a bit in the fridge in favor of airtable Script-Block. Admitting that you can’t use DOM-Manipulation js code, I nevertheless wish to call one or the other available js Code Git by calling it from my own js code which must run in this block. Please read on to see what I imagine doing like this. Let’s suppose I would have got the RAW js code from a small library called dspmath.js or dspmath.min.js which would not call any dependencies. (this case is purely imaginary for the moment.) Let’s suppose that I didn’t steal this code and that I intend to use it under the conditions allowed by its rightful owner. Suppose that I plan to c

Is it possible to get the linked table id from a Field? I was looking at the Field docs and I couldn’t find anything. Airtable

Hi there, I’m having some trouble getting all of my records via a C# API (Airtable . net). I’ve posted this in their forum and gotten in touch with Airtable Support - but got advised to message here. I’m using Unity to build a mobile app that uses Airtable integration - and I’m building to Android. I wanted to find out if there’s perhaps something I’m doing wrong (or if there may be a limitation of my android build)? On my PC, I run my script to List the Records (173 in total), and it does so without issue. I can’t seem to upload a screen shot here - but on my device, despite logging out the right offset it doesn’t ever get the remaining records.On my PC, it works 100%… just not on android. I’ve tried splitting out the method, to call itself again with the offset parameter (instead of using a doWhile loop) - and I get the same results. And then I just recently tried running the method, getting the first 100 records, then waiting 2 seconds an

Hi there :sunny: I would like to automatically import contact forms from my Wordpress site to Airtable (prospect view). Do I need a special plugin? If someone has already implemented this workflow, I would be happy to get your advice :slightly_smiling_face: Thank you so much in advance for your help. Have a very nice day. Alexia

Hi There! I am just trying to jump in as we are working on data migration for a client. I need to be able to take a table (“Job Applications”) and search for a record in another table (“Applicants”) using a field (“Email Address”) as the lookup. Once the record is found, I would like to link the (“Applicants”) record to the (“Job Applications”) record. I have 10,000 records to scrub, so my current zap is laughable. Thanks for your help!

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I am trying to retrieve all records from a table. The master view has filters on it that have to stay there for other business users, but I would like to retrieve all records without the filters with the API. More specifically, the table is filtered to records added in the last week, but I need all of the records from the beginning of the table. Is there a way to use the API to get all records even if the table in the browser has filters on it?

Hi @kuovonne, I found your script in the below thread incredibly helpful – Thank you so much this is a game changer for me! https://community.airtable.com/t/weekend-scripting-block-challenge-and-1-000-prize/28074/9?u=adrian_head I’m curious if you might be able to help me make an adjustment to the script for a specific use-case which I think it broadly applicable to people needing to use a script similar to the one your created above. I have translated my problem to match the verbiage in your Cake order example to make things more clear. You can find the link to my example base here for your reference. Context:

I’d to send selected records in Airtable to Zapier in order to push the record’s data to another platform. Ideally, the user could select one or multiple records in a table view, click Run on the script block, and the process would occur. Can anybody point me in the right direction on where to get started?

To: Airtable folks: I see that the documentation site is not mobile friendly. I usually read it on my phone and find it very hard to navigate. Please consider making it responsive.

Preface: this is the most frustrating API to POST to I have ever worked with, it’s incredible. I am attempting to POST a new record using Alteryx (a workflow tool with cURL’ish functionality) and I keep getting 1 of two errors: {"error":{"type":"INVALID_REQUEST_MISSING_FIELDS","message":"Could not find field \\"fields\\" in the request body"}} Or, when I re-aliased the alteryx field from “data” to “fields” - {"error":{"type":"INVALID_REQUEST_UNKNOWN","message":"Invalid request: parameter validation failed. Check your request data."}} Here is the data I am POST’ing: '{ "fields": { "Program Name":"Education Test", "Category":"Education" "External Id":"a00ie00QA4" } }' This exactly conforms to Airtable’s spec and I am still getting errors. Do you have any suggested approaches for troubleshooting or resolving this? Edit: worth pointing out that I have been able to successfully POST using

Hello! I have a program that can make API calls via HTTP Request but you can only input URL’s. Is it possible with the Airtable API to create records using just a URL with query parameters? Everything I’m finding says to use curl but that’s not possible with the software I’m using. If not is there a service that my software can send a URL with query parameters to and then it takes it and executes the proper curl to Airtable? Maybe Postman? Thank you.

Hey Community, Is there the possibility to A. Let a script run via API? B. Give scripts a(n absolute) “time reference” in order to let them run in some kind of scheduled time frame? Feedback appreciated & Thanks in advance

Hi all. Total AirTable newbie here, and I’m hoping someone can please point me in the right direction. I’ve started working with a charity that uses AirTable to track requests that members of the public file for COVID-related assistance. There are two tables involved specifically in what I’m trying to achieve: Requests and Requestors. The person making the request fills out a WordPress form with name, postcode, etc. which are fields in the Requestors table and details about what they’re requesting from the charity; these are fields in the Requests table. Within the Requests table, there is a field which is a link to the Requestors. We end up with a lot of duplicated rows in the Requestors table if people make multiple requests. What I’d like to be able to do is intercept the form when it’s submitted, check to see if there’s a criteria match in Requestors (say on name and postcode) and if so, assign it to the existing requestor. If there is no match, then it would create a new

Hello Community, This is how I am getting the records using the Python requests library: How to get more than 100 rows using Airtable API in Python using offest? But some fields only show the “Record_id” instead of actual values. I hit a wall trying to find solutions to this. How do I resolve this? Any leads would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

I just cloned the to-do list example to get familiar with blocks and it starts with a can not read primaryField of null when compiled. It’s a small fix with the code i found, this is just if anyone else finds it also for the airtable team to update their sample code. Since there is no table selected in the beginning of the list table is null therefore need to add in a check for table present before calling table.primaryField. const records = useRecords(doneField ? view : null, {fields: [table ? table.primaryField : null, doneField]}); {fields: [table ? table.primaryField : null, doneField]}); update this object! Thank you!

Good morning, Developers, @Katherine_Duh, @Airtable_Admin I found pory.io on this message thread. As I’m struggling to study and practice Script-Block and Custom-Block simultaneously while I’m supposed building an excellent airtable frontend, I don’t have an airtable frontend at the moment. In its current state, pory.io looks very attractive for a temporary airtable frontend for me before maybe one day I will find time to do much more with the same REACT needed for the Custom Block… But after a registration at 0$ to try it, I stopped: I can’t figure out who is pory.io at all. Do you know these Developers? I’m really not enthusiastic about

i can see and press the copy button for the examples where is the paste button and where do you paste what you have copied???

I built a working code to retrieve data from fake Airtable database with axios. You can see the code below perfectly working. No problem to retrieve data when is on the main table. Yet as you can assume some fields are connected to other tables (named in Airtable: parent child data or fields). Is the case in my table when you have the field “ORGANIZZAZIONE” (Organization) that is connected to another table having the organization datails as for example: NOME (Name) and TIPOLOGIA (Activity). As you can see in the code when I try to access to this data (ORGANIZZAZIONE) I have bad results. Probably I have to build an “axios.all” request but I can’t find the right way. The idea to append the data with another AIRTABLE’S API call to a child table it is OK (in code is in comment to JS file) …but it is not working. So can you help me? Here the codepen code working example: https://codepen.io/mauro99/pe

Is there a way at present to debug a custom block on my local while building it? It would be great if I can such debug error like these with better and more helpful build time error messages.

Hi all, Every week I manually copy and past sum total values from various tables and views in my base, to a Google Sheet. I do this to basically create a weekly snapshot of the totals in our Airtable sales forcecast. For example, 1st of May the total sales was £100,000, then on 7th May the total sales was £110,000. I can then track a £10 increase week on week. I’m essentially tacking the weekly value of a total of all records in a view, but to do this I have to manually copy and paste the values into a Google Sheet every Tuesday morning. It’s tedious as in practice I actually have to do this for around 30 fields every week. Would it be possible to instead of copying/pasting into a Google Sheet, to have a script populate a separate table in my base with the snapshots? For example the new snapshot table could look like this: Snapshot Date || April Sales £ || May Sales £ || June Sales £ || 1st May 2020 || £100,000 || £100,000 || £100,000 7