Development & APIs

I know there is no documented way to get the activity feed information via the API, but I was wondering if anyone has ever managed to easily monitor as records last updated status or created some special field to track it somehow?

I’m trying to retrieve all the records in a table with curl over HTTPS. I checked the table I’m targeting, and it has 283 records. I imagine I’ll need to issue three requests, since each request returns a maximum of 100 records. I piped the results of my first curl command into a new file called output.txt and then tried to find the offset value from within the curl output file. However, when I search through this file, I can’t find an offset value anywhere within the JSON like I expected, based on this line in the documentation: If there are more records, the response will contain an offset. Is there something obvious that I’m missing… I feel like there has to be. If anyone knows how I can get this offset value so that I can use it to request the next page of records (and the one after that), I’d be super grateful. :slightly_smiling_face:

How could I filter via JavaScript API depending on linked table? What is the criteria if there are more than one table linked? I tried "{Column} = '" + record.get('Col') + "' but then I get only the results with just this reference, not the records having addition refs.

I’m using the Airtable api to build a website. I’m returning values from a multiple select field. In this case the field is ‘Activities available’. I can output them on the website no problem, but I can only return them as a string and can’t seem to figure out how to ideally add html around each value, or at least comma seperate them. I have this <p><span className="text-muted">{record.fields['Activities available']}</span></p> returning <span class="text-muted">NightlifeFoodArchitecture</span> in the browser. I’m using Create React App to build this and I’m quite new and limited in Javascript. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ciarán

Does Aritable support API keys for specific workspace or database? I do not want to give away access to my whole account.

Hi Does anyone know if there is a way to filter with a variable in the filterByFormula function through the API? Getting this to work would allow me to fetch information from a specific e-mail, and display records from airtable dependent on that. So, do this: var filterstring = ‘shipment_name’; base(‘Shipments’).select({ filterByFormula: Name=filterstring, }).eachPage(function page(records, fetchNextPage) { Instead of this: base(‘Shipments’).select({ filterByFormula: ‘Name=“shipment_name”’, }).eachPage(function page(records, fetchNextPage) { I’m able to use a string-variable for the find method, but as far as I can tell that only allows me to find on the clunky recordname. var recordname = ‘recDegFvWIgCSAlzg’; base(‘Shipments’).find(recordname, function(err, record) { Apologies in advance if this is a basic question, it’s my first attempt at developing anything with html/js/jquery. Mads

Background. I have Valuations field in my Airtable DB. It’s type is set to “Attachment” and it stores PDFs. I populate it manually. Script. I’ve got a VBA-script with embedded CURL-commands that works as follows: Record values in several fields Delete all rows. Insert new sample enriched with the recorded data in rows with matching IDs, i.e. from step 1. Problem. Despite the fact that I have recorded the JSONs of each attachment in “Valuations” I get #422 Error whenever I launch my CURL to create an updated record containing attachments in “Valuations”. Please, have a look at the JSON below. Any advice will be highly appreciated. “Valuations”:[ { “id”:“attGR7hW7A3jnIczu”, “url”:“URL…pdf”, “filename”:“Valuation-Workbook_3284-3286-Sullivant-Ave-Columbus-OH-43204_2018-12-27-11-11-09 (1).pdf”, “size”:8244890, “type”:“application/pdf”, “thumbnails”:{

Need someone with strong expertise of Airtable’s API to consult with on a custom developed integration between Airtable and a vue js database. Currently, we have the tables we want to mimic in Airtable but we don’t know how best to format them (lookup tables, arrays, primary keys etc…) such that they will best integrate with our tool. I’m a product manager for a venture-backed startup in SF and I am willing to pay competitive hourly rates for work on this project.

I use airtable inside the ionic application. The problem is this: When I make a request for a table where there are linked records from another table, I get the address of the linked record, not its value, which looks like, for example, recjxZQmr3rrCpIEl. Until recently, there was no such problem, and the values were returned correctly as string values.

It seems that in order to remove all records from a linked field type during a patch/update, you have to always have at least one valid record id to include and keep linked. Otherwise, if try to update with an empty array (to clear the data out presumably) it gives an error that the record id is not valid.

Hi All, This is a rather urgent request - otherwise I will need to migrate away from AirTable and to mySQL overnight so your help is welcome. I am using a PHP library for airtable and I have a lookup method on an Email field using filterByFormula. It works great and returns users by their email as long as these users are among the 100th first in the table. Below that limit, they are not found. What am I missing ? thanks a lot

Hi everyone. I have this issue: I am requesting the API with asking for some field with no problems , I get my response ok, no prob. Late, I do the exactly same request and I have no results… wait… what??? So, I’ve decided to check the data in the table, and oh! There’s an active filter in the GUI… so I’ve disabled, then I execute the API request and I get the result again. Anyone already have the same problem? There’s any way or parameter that I can send in the request to avoid GUI filters? Thanks in advance.

I have been trying for several hours to get the fields parameter for the list records request to work. I am sending an HTTP Get request with python, I have the filterByFormula field working but cannot get the fields parameter to work. Could someone please post an example of the fields tag and an example field in a working query string format? Thanks

Hi, Is it possible to create multiple records in one API request? The API documents only speak of creating one record at a time. I have a quiz app and want to post the answers (one answer per record) to my AirTable, but since the AirTable API has a rate limit of 5 requests per second, I can’t just dump the answers via multiple requests, so want to post them all at once. Is it possible? Thanks!

Web search box using api / How to make a sample? Is it possible to do it on the web page (eg on wix.com)? It will be very useful to have an example of how it can be done.

I’m hoping someone has run into this before and can help me out. I’m sure I just have a syntax error somewhere or something equally silly. I’m using jQuery AJAX (I have to, I will explain why if anyone asks). I am able to retrieve, post, and patch data for everything but my checkbox field. I have sent the value “true” with and without quotes. Here is my code: $.ajax({ url: `${Airtable.API}/To%20Do/${recordId}`, type: 'PATCH', headers: { authorization: `Bearer ${Airtable.API_KEY}`, contentType: "application/json" }, data: { "fields": { "Done": true // does not work as "true" or true } } }) .fail((error) => { console.error("There was an error processing your request:", error, error.responseText); }) .done((response) => { console.log(response); }); Here is the error: responseJSON: { error: { { message: "Field Done can not

I’ve been working on a way to proxy Airtable API calls through a Cloudflare worker. What this library lets you do is add permissions and securely attach your API key to Airtable API requests without letting users see your credentials on the frontend. Cloudflare Workers are $5/mo, and they run on Cloudflare’s edge network, so they’re really fast for clients. So this project is basically a serverless API proxy, and I’ve found it really useful for making the Airtable API client-side friendly. Happy to answer questions about implementation or suggestions for improvements!

I am using Node.js library to communicate with AirTable, official js library. I am having a problem with filterByFormula. Sometimes when I try to find a record in AirTable I don’t get results even though I am pretty sure that there should be some results. My logic is such that if I do not find the record in AirTable I create a new one. If I find it I update an existing one. This logic leads to problem with same entries entered twice. This is my query: getReservationByID: async (externalID) { let reservations = await calendarBase('Reservations').select({ view: 'Main View', filterByFormula: `{External ID} = \\"${externalID}\\"`, maxRecords: 1, }).all(); return (reservations.length > 0) ? reservations[0] : null; }, And this function is used like this: let oldReservation = await getReservationByID(reservation.id); if (!oldReservation) { createNewReservation(res

I’m writing a php script in which I need to fetch all records from a certain base of about 1000 records (and store them in one array so I can handle some stuff). As I understand the max pageSize is 100, but with the offset it returns and using this as a parameter in your next request you can get the next pages. But this doesn’t seem to really work. I can get a few pages (actually sometimes just one) until it throws the error LIST_RECORDS_ITERATOR_NOT_AVAILABLE on me. I simply never am able to fetch every page. This error always occurs. How can I proceed from this error to be able to fetch every record? Am I missing something? A snippet from my code: //curl code ... curl_close($ch); $airtable_response = json_decode($entries, TRUE); foreach ($airtable_response["records"] as $key => $record) { $all_records[] = $record; } // Next page if there is one if( $airtable_response['offset'] ) { fetch_records($url . "?offset=" . $airtable_respon

Hi - For new records created as of 2/28/19, we are no longer seeing the “{username} Created via API” in the revision history that shows the initial values of the record. “{username} Edited via API” is still appearing when the record is edited. Records created prior to 2/28/19 still contain the created via api. Thanks, Dan

Hi there, I encounter a problem that it cannot get the data in some computers due to the ‘FileLoadException: A strongly-named assembly is required’ to the AirtableApiClient.dll. I am adding the AirtableApiClient.dll with version 0.9.2.0 as a reference, which is not Strong Name assembly. Does anyone know is there any strong name version I can reference to? Or any solution to the issue? The project code is written in C#, access and get data from airtable, then serialize to a local .json file.

I currently have api airtable /v0/appVhG3JD5Ko1oeJ7/Twitter%20Database/?view=20%20february%202019?api_key=MY KEY I get {"error":{"type":"AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED","message":"Authentication required"}} I’m trying to return all the Entrys with the date (written as) ‘20 February 2019’ Any ideas - I struggle reading the documentation so I’m not sure what to try

I am using Airtable in a Java project with Eclipse, but i have this problem: -Code : import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; import com.sybit.airtable.Airtable; import com.sybit.airtable.Base; import com.sybit.airtable.Table; import com.sybit.airtable.exception.AirtableException; import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; public class Main { @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public void UpdatePelicula() throws AirtableException, IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException, NoSuchMethodException{ Airtable airtable = new Airtable().configure(); System.out.println("Hola"); Base base = airtable.base("keyA50PJucw4m5Ktc"); Table <Peliculas> peliculasTable = base.table("Peliculas", Peliculas.class); } public static void main(String[] args) throws IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException, NoSuchMethodException, AirtableException{ Main main = new Main(); main.UpdatePelicula()

Hey, What exactly does the pagination related API error LIST_RECORDS_ITERATOR_NOT_AVAILABLE mean? The API docs say Iteration may timeout due to client inactivity or server restarts. In that case, the client will receive a 422 response with error message LIST_RECORDS_ITERATOR_NOT_AVAILABLE . It may then restart iteration from the beginning. What does that mean? How am I supposed to deal with that? The first “page” ie. the first 100 records are always correctly returned, but the next “page” fails randomly; sometimes it works, the next minute it doesn’t. This is extremely frustrating and a major issue for our use case at the moment. Any help is appreciated.

Hi everyone. I have been scratching my head for a while now, and looking at API docs seems to be impossible, however I have High hopes to make this happen. I am using using filemaker to build API requests, I am already able to do a few transactions adding and retrieving records. But when it comes to attachments I am hopeless. I have lets say test.zip archive locally, I need to upload it via api and at some point download it back via API. from my application (client) I am able to build simmilar transaction to dropbox: –header Content-Type: application/octet-stream –data-binary @$file" ANYONE please help! and Thank you in advance