Development & APIs

Hi, I’m tryin to do api-request with “filterByFormula”. I want to filter by date and to filter by range. I tried something like that, but it doenst work (Gettin no records): AND((DATUM) >= “02-01-2020”, (DATUM) <= “02-31-2020”) How do i have to implement this kind of filter? Thanks for your help!

Hi - not sure if I’m doing something odd here, but I cannot get fetch to work in the Scripting block. Getting this: cannot find name ‘fetch’ Normally, I would think this is my user error, but I have another base using the “original” pre-beta version (2 weeks ago) and fetch works OK in this. Any thoughts @Kasra ? Thanks JB

Hey there, Is there a way to get the block id at runtime? I need it for authorization purposes, to see if my customer is still authorized to use the block. Thanks, Ronen Babayoff Superblocks.at

This script block code seems to crash the Block… any ideas? output.text('# IndexOf() Bug?'); let str = "This is a test ..."; let positionOfIs = str.indexOf("is"); output.text(positionOfIs);

There’s a saying in NASCAR, although the origin is largely unknown, really fast cars are often described as “stupid fast”. In my early and limited experience with the Script Block, I’ve noticed that barebones reading and enumeration of data sets are exceedingly fast - indeed, stupid fast. This is great news - the team at Airtable cared greatly about the performance in script block apps when accessing and processing large numbers of records with potentially numerous fields. I think there’s a little magic going on inside this new feature which, in my experience, is quite impressive. Writing data - updates to a field - not so fast. But this could be my poor design choices. I haven’t spent any time thinking about field and record updates thus far. Here’s the base I used for these tests. It includes a quick-and-dirty benchmark block. I’m curious if these performance results vary by client.

Hi, Airtable Scripting Block Documentation wrote: " In your script, you can use anything from the JavaScript standard library, except for DOM APIs that interact with HTML on the page." Suggestion: In place of DOM API that is not the right way to do it, could you open any other way you should prefer like passing States to Props to UI Components ? Best, oLπ

From people’s experiments so far, are we seeing Scripting as an alternative to third-party automation like Zapier? I suppose by that I’m talking most simply about Airtable > Airtable automation.

Less than a few hours after Airtable released its long-awaited integrated scripting block, I was asked by more than one community member what I thought about this new shiny toy. By looking only at one example by @JonathanBowen, I am able to say – This toy has teeth! I needn’t write a single line of code to recognize a game-changer for Airtable users, and specifically, consultants, power-users, and anyone interested in taking their solutions to a higher level. Certainly, there are bound to be a lot of missing elements of this integral tool to manipulate data in tables. And there will be significant complaints about the tight guard rails imposed to prevent “coders” from doing dumb things on a platform that is ostensibly hosted for joint tenants-in-common. Teeth? Yes,

Is there a way to lock fields in a record that are updated through the API? Use case: We use the API to update the airtable according to certain parameters on our company servers/backend. These fields ideally need to be locked as the scripts on the backend/server side does searches for these fields and if they are accidentally changed the endpoint s missed.

Hey everyone, I am trying to write a script that call my airtable and “Pending” orders. I need to write a json script that calls to the server, retrieves any orders and makes them into seperate windows so you can see them like tickets. (i was going to include the airtable to show but it will not allow me to add link) It has name - what drink they want - what the status is - the time it was created. I’ve messed round with the airtable API but it doesn’t allow me to retrieve the information I want and throws them into a long line. To be honest I am not a programmer at all, I dwabble a bit and try to get things to work but out of my element on this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bobby

Hey, would love to be able to not only get the cursor.selectedRecordIds, but also the selected fields, if any fields are selected in a grid view. Seems like there will be many use cases that would require such functionality. I personally have a few. Thanks, Ronen

This category is for developers to share the scripts they’ve built, provide feedback, and connect with each other. https://try.airtable.com/scripting

For discussion around customizing and extending the Airtable platform with our API, scripts, and third-party integrations.

Hey folks, I’m receiving a 403 error during a Patch after having patched 19 times successfully. If I have invalid permissions, as the 403 indicates, then why am I able to do it successfully 19 times with a similar payload before the error is raised? I’ve looked carefully at the patch payload for weird escape characters or data type issues but I don’t see any anomalies. I’ve also tried slowing down the patches with a time.sleep(). I’ve tried reducing the size of the payload to the minimal size. I’m at a loss as to what else to try. hmmm. bugs bugs bugs.

Hey Guys Is there a do a filterByFormula to find an exact match? filterByFormula=(FIND(%221234%22%2C%7BProject+Name%7D)) will find records within the Project Name field containing 1234 or 12345 but I need to return the exact match (1234) not the partial match. Hope that makes sense??

Not sure if I understand the use cases for Blocks but I am trying to create a little mini GUI to pull data from Google and save into Airtable. How do I go about securing my API key? Is it secure to bundle with code that gets released to Airtable?

Hello, I’ve been trying all evening to get this to work, but I’m out of ideas: I’m making the following request to the API, and getting nowhere - The fields are exactly as in the docs but I get the response: Could not parse request body. This can occur if the information entered into a field is not in the correct format. Double-check that you are using the correct format for entering values into a field. The problem is, it works perfectly in Postman, but when I run it in Zapier it falls apart. The JSON payload is as follows, and I’m using “User-Agent = Postman” { "records": [ { "fields": { "Gap Details": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore e

Forgive my ignorance, but is there something in my browser settings that is causing this?

Hi, This one is an API enhancement request. I know that the Cursor allows me to get the record ids of selected records. But it doesn’t provide the ids of expanded records, which I recommend should be treated as “selected” as well, especially taking into account you can move to previous and next records from within the expanded record UI, by using the arrows above the record primary field. I tried to work around that by trying and track changes to the top window location (i.e. the browser url), since it includes the record id of the expanded record: https://airtable.com/activeTableId/activeViewId/expandedRecordId?blocks=blockId Problem is that in dev mode (haven’t checked it in a release yet), I cannot access window.top.location - I get a cross origin error: Uncaught DOMException: Blocked a frame with o

Hi there, Tried different ways, without luck as of yet. It’s lacking documentation and I also couldn’t find an example in any of the block examples. Thanks, Ronen

Hello everybody, I’m trying to use Airtable API for the first time with my arduino Yun and I encontered a problem with creating record. When I use my program, I get the following error : "error":{“type”:“INVALID_REQUEST_MISSING_FIELDS”,“message”:“Could not find field “fields” in the request body”}}.` I think it’s just a formatting problem but I can’t find where and I did find anything helpful on the internet (which make me think my problem is very idiot :blush: ) What can I do ? Thanks in advance !

Hello, Is there a way to query the API for recently updated records? Trying to understand the best way to scan for records that need to be updated in a separate database. Thanks!

I can only request 15 new record creations with a single API call. // create a People-Holiday::Christmas record for each person in the People table people.map(person => { peopleHolidaysTable.createRecordAsync({ 'Person' : [{id: `${person.id}`}], 'Holiday' : [{id: 'reclZYRpInJiev0ce'}] }); }); I have 33 people in my array. I’m not terribly proficient with async programming in JS yet. What is the proper way to chunk this into 3 API calls of 15/15/3? I suspect I need to split it up into arrays of 15 and then have each call await the one previous with a timeout of 1000ms. Anyone able to provide some guidance on how to do that?

Airtable is really a build your own database app on the web with an iPhone and iPad companion app as well. This means, if I’m writing on my laptop, I don’t have to go find my phone to start a session and if I forget to end it, it’s easy to fix. Now, I just put in the ending word count and it does the rest. After a lot of fooling around with Excel, Excel Online and Google Sheets, I prefer it to a spreadsheet because I can better control the data entry flow and when I pick a date/time field it just defaults to the current time. This makes it perfect to really get a customized app for exactly what I want. One downside, I can generate most of the same stats as Wordly, but some of them don’t show on the iOS apps. So I thought I’d throw them into Power BI and build my stats there. Airtable has pretty well documented API. Get best Power BI training online. Power BI connects to API’s, what could go

Hello, I have created a custom form outside of Airtable that utilizes the Airtable API. I have everything working perfect on a single page submission form. This is used by data entry employees to enter mail in submissions quickly. I would like to have a message appear when they click the create button that states the record was successfully created in Airtable, but I cannot find anything like this in the docs or in my Google searching. Anyone have any idea on how to receive a confirmation from the API that a new record was indeed created? Thanks, Brett