Development & APIs

I am building a platform using Airtable and Softr that allows teachers to auto-generate assessments, allow students to submit assessments, and auto-grade these assessments based on a specified marking guide and rubric. I have built the auto-generation of assessments part, which works as follows:-User submits assessment requirements through form (currently Tally)-Answers populate in fields in an ‘assessments’ table in Airtable -I then run a script to call OpenAI API and generate questions -These individual questions then populate in a ‘questions’ table My current challengeIn order to develop the submitting assessments part, I need to auto-create a form for each assessment. This form needs to populate with the questions (which exist as records in the questions table) - so essentially I need to auto-create a form with dynamic inputs based on the question text. Would this be possible even if a third party form builder was used. Any bidders on the project welco

Is it possible to get the record color via API?

I have an automation that sends and receives data from a lambda function. I need some way to secure that function so that only calls from AirTable can get through. So, I don't want the end point for that API Gateway to be accessible from outside of AirTable. Any suggestions for how to handle this? I don't really see a list of AirTable IPs as a solution, but maybe?

Hi there! I'm getting some templated tasks set up for my team using the "create records using multiple templates" extension. Very useful! I've gone into the code and begun adding some additional fields to auto-populate. The simple ones were easy, but I have something trickier I'd like to pull off, and I'm unsure if it's possible.These tasks can be dependent on another task. I'd love to be able to auto-populate that dependent task into that column as a linked record. But code wise, I'm imagining that it would somehow need to reference the other created records, pull the record ID, and populate that into the "Dependent Task" column. Any idea if this might be possible? This puts me a bit out of my depth as a low-coder &#x1f605 Thanks for your consideration!Here's the current part of the code, for reference:  // Filter the template records to match the selected type & add the parent ID to the map let types = typesRecords.map(c => ({ 'child': [c], 'childName':

Hey everyone,I'm using the the "airtable" npm package to hook into the Airtable API in my nodeJS project. I was playing around with how the API is initialized and realized that if I pass an "undefined" apiKey, that the queries still work as long as I pass in a baseId. This is how I'm initializing it...const base = new AirtableApi({ apiKey }).base(baseId)Does anyone know why this would work even if "apiKey" is undefined?Thanks,Chris 

My question as below: I use this script: Let attachment = await input.fileAsync('Pls upload the cargo packing list') Then I want to create a new record with one field as MultipleAttachment. I want this MultipleAttachment field having the attachment input above by input.fileAsync. As per the API, the MultipleAttachment written format as below: Array<{ url: string, filename?: string, }> How could I achieve my goal? I don’t know how can I have the url of the uploaded file by fileAsync. Thanks

Okay, continuing my ask from this original idea:https://community.airtable.com/t5/product-ideas/proper-revision-history-api/idi-p/153234I came across this page in the Enterprise Audit Logs:https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/audit-logs-overviewIf you scroll down to the bottom of this page, you'll see this reference:Which says:The Audit Log Events API does not reflect changes to contents of cell values. If there is a need to monitor data being placed into cell values of Airtable bases, you may consider using our Data Loss Prevention solution through the Change Events API.Change Events API?  Data Loss Prevention solution?  Huh?The corresponding link to that API is currently dead:https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/change-eventsAnyone from Airtable know what's going on here?

Hello I use the library airtable.js and i would like to change the auth methode before jan 2024.Actually this is my code new Airtable({apiKey: vars.API_KEY}).base(vars.ID_AIRTABLE_TABLE_BUG);but i would like make something like : new Airtable({ endpointUrl: 'https://airtable.com/{BASE_ID}/{TABLE_ID}', oauthToken: { clientId: 'CLIENT_ID', clientSecret: 'CLIENT_SECRET' },}); but it's not working, do i miss something ?

Hi,The following code crashes and I don't know why: let table = base.getTable("Touchpoints"); let cTable = base.getTable("Contact"); let record = await input.recordAsync('Select a record to use', table); let callBack = await input.textAsync('What is the callback date? (YYYY-MM-DD)'); let notes = await input.textAsync('Include any callback notes'); let callDate = new Date(callBack); let recordID = record.getCellValueAsString("Contact RecordID"); console.log("Record of the Contact ID full record is: "); console.log(recordID); //console.log("The record id is: " + 'recBsDnoriZEaRY4i'); //let recordInsert = [{'id' : recordID}]; //console.log(billTillDate); await table.createRecordAsync({ 'Start Date/Time': callDate, 'Notes': notes, 'Contact': [{ id : recordID }] }); // recpBkpe7kCZSICoS  Video for context:https://share.getcloudapp.com/12u7pypE

I have a table called contracts and I have 200 google sheet spreadsheets representing each contract.  I can import/sync to Airtable from a Google sheet but I only want 1 row per contract (200 rows total), and I want the fields to map to specific spreadsheet values.  I also need this to work for future contracts where I can insert a URL of the latest signed contract into a new row and Airtable will automatically extract the data from the spreadsheet for me.I was thinking the best way to do this was probably with an automation + script, but I'm struggling to even read data using Google's rest api using Airtable's script language (these contracts aren't shared publicly so I need to handle authentication which is proving tricky in Airtable's scripting language)Has anyone done something similar themselves?  Or perhaps someone has a better method to achieve the same result?

Hello I use the library airtable.js and i would like to change the auth methode before jan 2024.Actually this is my code new Airtable({apiKey: vars.API_KEY}).base(vars.ID_AIRTABLE_TABLE_BUG);but i would like make something like : new Airtable({ endpointUrl: 'https://airtable.com/{BASE_ID}/{TABLE_ID}', oauthToken: { clientId: 'CLIENT_ID', clientSecret: 'CLIENT_SECRET' },}); but it's not working, do i miss something ?

Edit:This is no longer needed, AirTable has updated the official script with a superior correction.https://support.airtable.com/docs/visualizing-airtable-records-in-microsoft-power-bi-power-queryOriginal Post:Here is a version of the M Query code for Power BI/Excel with a small correction that resolves the issue of the query endlessly pulling the first page of results:   let Pagination = List.Skip(List.Generate( () => [Last_Key = "init", Counter=0], each [Last_Key] <> null, each [ Last_Key = try if [Counter]<1 then "" else [WebCall][Value][offset] otherwise null, WebCall = try if [Counter]<1 then Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://api.airtable.com", [RelativePath="v0/"&BASE_ID&"/"&TABLE_ID&"", Headers=[#"Authorization"="Bearer "&PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN,#"Content-Type"="application/json"]])) else Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://api.airtable.com", [RelativePath="v0/"&BASE_ID&"/"

Hi Guys, Wondering if anyone can help me out with this one. I want to create a script that incorporates an API to weather.com. The script will draw the information from the field and the field in Airtable and the result will be the weather forecast for that location on that day into a field called in Airtable. Im pretty new to all this, so the most descriptive information would be really appreciated! Thanks guys! JH.

Hello there, I'm a recent customer of Airtable, i really love this solution but i have some issues with scripting automation. When i run my code on scripting app i don't have any problem but when i try to create an automation like a button on click i receive this error message -> Error: Exceeded quota of 30 table queries per script invocation. I checked the forum but i don't find the real solution of this issue. Could we help me ? Thx a lot My code : // Clean all table let table = base.getTable("fetch_articles"); let query = await table.selectRecordsAsync(); let recordsToDelete = query.records; let batchedRecords = []; while (recordsToDelete.length > 0) { let batch = recordsToDelete.slice(0, 50); batchedRecords.push(batch); recordsToDelete = recordsToDelete.slice(50); } for (let i = 0; i < batchedRecords.length; i++) { await table.deleteRecordsAsync(batchedRecords[i]); } // Run code function btoa(token) { var Base64={_keyStr:"ABCDEF

I'm looking to add a quick estimate feature to our website that allows a customer to use a drop down menu to select the year, make and model of a vehicle and have up to two options with two prices displayed, from data stored in one base, then be able to book an appointment that would go into another base including the information from the selections made.Is there already a way of accomplishing this or would this be a custom job?

Hello all, I was trying to optimize a website and reducing the size of the images and I ran into a problem which is not occurring in other projects. When converting the images to webp and uploading them to Airtable, Airtable is converting them back to PNG and feeding a 50KB file and making it 700KB. So I tried a few options and upon uploading smaller PNG’s in order not to have airtable convert, I noticed that a PNG file is 170KB yet, Airtable is still feeding it as a 700KB+ png file to my website. How is this possible? I have other projects using airtable and I can fetch webp files for starters with no issues. But with this project I don’t get webp, only PNG’s and they are also not the same size as the uploaded versions. I tried creating a new column and adding only webp files and the result is still the same. Any suggestions on what I can do? Thank you in advance.

Hello I am still struggling to find a solution for the Currency Value Format. Seems impossible to have a field as : € 1.000,00. The only option seems the american one $ 1,000.00. Does somebody can help? Thanks a lot guys A

Hi there,I am getting this error message back, when I test my HTTP request flow in Webflow:{ "error": { "type": "INVALID_VALUE_FOR_COLUMN", "message": "Value is not an array of record IDs." } }Strange that it doesn't name the column. Strange that I am not writing any data with reference to other records into reference fields. It's a simple form with text fields, number field, an email field, a phone field and a checkbox.No matter how I manipulate the form, this message comes up. The request as such is successfull.Has anyone experienced this?

I apologize if I missed recent updates about this. I couldn’t find anything through searching. Is there any way to pull the revision history on a record via script? I have a client who wants to see a daily recap of certain fields. Right now they have a view that shows them the records updated in the past 24 hours and they can open records to look at the revision history. But they want a daily recap email that goes to a couple people with changes to certain fields. I know I can create a modified field for a given field but I’d rather not have to do this for each field they require visibility on. Thank you in advance for direction on this.

Hi all i am struggling with uploading woocommerce image from airtable url. Now airtable doesnot provide ".png" on the url.Is there any ways i can upload it using REST api curl method?

Hello.  I have been using an API token (the original method) for authenication to get records from a particular table.  I have been using the 'airtable' Python library to do this.  We are now switching to use a personal access token (PAT) because the API token authentication method is going away.  So, I can no longer use the 'airtable' Python library because it doesn't support PATs. So, I am simply using the 'requests' Python library this time around.  For whatever reason, I have a handful of columns that will not download when using the 'requests' Python library with my PAT.  However, I can download these columns when using the 'airtable' Python library and my API token.  Below is my code.  In the field list, I put a comment to denote the fields that won't download  when I run my code.  These columns just don't appear in my final downloaded file.  Is there something I'm missing?  Or is there a better library that I should be

Trying to connect MAKE with Airtable following the OAuth method. Getting an error that says: "Your OAuth application requested the scope \\"schema.bases:read data.records:read data.records:write\\" which \n your application does not have access to.Is this because I'm connecting to a Mac, because Make and AT are paid plans, or other reason???(error message attached)Thanks  

Hey folks,We are trying to implement OAuth integration and getting the following error: This OAuth application cannot be used outside of development Can someone help us understand what this means? We don't see any reference to this in the doc. I guess the integration needs to go through a review, but it would be great to get some pointers on the docs.

I've tinkered a bit with the NLA Beta from Zapier using LangChain and LLM's from OpenAI. Anybody else tried out to hook it up to Airtable?So far I've been following the guide from LangChain (Here's the 🔗 Quickstart Guide) for 🔗 Zapier Natural Language Actions API. I've been successful with the example of finding the latest email of XX in your Gmail and making a summary of it but when it came to Airtable it became a bit more tricky.I've set up an action on Zapier's side and tried out a few different trials for finding records. It often hallucinates imaginary values/records.Here's the result: agent.run("Let's think step by step. Search in Airtable and find three records where in the name field, the word Hogwarts is mentionned. Then, provide me a list with the fulle name field of each record.") > Entering new AgentExecutor chain... I need to find three records that have the word Hogwarts in their name field. Action: Search Record Name Field Action

Hi everyoneI've been trying to use the "Create records from multiple select field choices" script from Airtable Marketplace by @Alex_Wolfe1 but unfortunately it doesn't work for my use case where the source fields are not the Multiple Select type but multiple linked text fields that are pulled from another table.I've been advised by Support to change my source fields to multiple select but the thing is that this would not be practical as I have 75+ entries (and growing); besides the fact that I need them to be neatly stored in a separate table as text along with various other attributes for each.Anyone please reckon if this is doable by a simple alteration of the existing script as I'm not familiar with scripting?Thanks for any tips!