Development & APIs

Hi!following the public api of Airtable, I tried to create a new field to an existing table of an existing base. It all goes as expected though the new field that I create is hidden. I wonder if there’s a flag I need to send in the api to have the new created field not hidden, or to show fields through another api calls?Thanks! 

Hi everyone,I currently use Airtable as my backend and bubble as my web application interface.There is a plugin on Bubble to synchronize data from Bubble to Airtable quite easily through the API.But I saw that API keys will be replaced by tokens starting next year and I was wondering if you know how to use these new tokens to synchronize from Bubble to Airtable, thanks!

Hello!  I am in desperate need of help. I can't figure out how to "filterByFormula" in the following script. I am trying to send a JSON payload via webhook to MAKE.com. I only want to send records where a given field is blank. I have tried multiple variations of the filter but can't figure out why it always sends EVERY record.  let table = base.getTable("BA Aggregated Calendar 2022-2023");table.selectRecordsAsync({fields: ["Event ID", "Outlook Category", "Users"],filterByFormula: "blank(Outlook Category)",sorts: [// sort by "Users" in ascending order...{field: "Users"},]}).then(query => {const payload = {records: query.records.map(record => ({id: record.id,eventID: record.getCellValueAsString("Event ID"),outlookcategory: record.getCellValueAsString("Outlook Category"),Users: record.getCellValueAsString("Users")}))};const options = {method: 'POST',headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},body: JSON.stringify(payload)};fetch('webhookhere', options);});

I am new to scripting & know that I dont know exactly what I am doing however I like to learn & am kind of learning on the job taking it 1 step at a time.When creating a script the following code will allow the user to choose which table & field they want to use in the script from the script settings. // Click the "gear" icon in the top right to view settings let config = input.config({ title: "Script Title", description: "Script Description", items: [ input.config.table('selectedTable', { label: 'Table to use', description: 'Pick any table in this base!' }), input.config.field('selectedField', { label: 'Field inside the above table', parentTable: 'selectedTable', }) ] }); I want to be able to select multiple fields. But I only want to be able to select:Fields that are either a singleLineText or a multilineText.Only be able to select each field once.How w

I want to create a file upload interface on my custom app so that collaborators/users of the app can upload an image from their file system to the base (instead of using the airtable interface) Is this possible, and if not, can you suggest any workarounds? Thank you!

I'm not familiar with Javascript.Looking to make a button that will start a script to generate an alphanumeric string that's 8 characters long.  The code I found on Google to generate a string is:function makeid(length) { var result = ''; var characters = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'; var charactersLength = characters.length; for ( var i = 0; i < length; i++ ) { result += characters.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * charactersLength)); } return result; } console.log(makeid(8));However, I'm not sure how to make it output into a record in a table in Airtable.  Is it possible to make it replace the same record every time the button is pressed?  Is it possible to clear the record after x amount of time? 

Hi,I am building an application to get data from a view and attempting to patch it back to the view. However, I haven't found any endpoints to do it. First, I want to check whether the view has a field. If it doesn't, I shall create a new field and patch my data to the view. Any help is highly appreciated. I am using Nest.js Axios, and here is my code:  createField(baseId: string, tableId: string, field: string, token: string) {    console.log('creating field...');    // when I post, it gives me 422    const url = `https://api.airtable.com/v0/meta/bases/${baseId}/tables/${tableId}/fields`;    const headers = {      Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,      'Content-Type': 'application/json',    };    const body = JSON.stringify({      fields: {        name: field,        type: 'singleLineText',      },    });&nb

Is there a way to filter RecordQueryResult by a checkbox field; let's say I want all records where the value is False?  let query = await table.selectRecordsAsync({ fields: [uniqueIdField, dateDueField, projectField, waiveRushField, comparisonField], });  That's the query I've been working with. I'd like to filter the resulting records to only pull items where waiveRushField is not marked.Thanks!

Hi there, I’m a French PharmD and I use Airtable to manage all patients’ appointments. It’s very useful for all my team except 1 laborious step : create appointments. I manage all appointments in a dedicated table (every X days I create X records for next days, so anyone can select a slot). So far I create appointments (1 appointment = 1 record) one by one. Ideally, I would like to fill a form and create multiple records with an automated script. For exemple, if I fill a form with : from : 22/10/2022 09:00 to : 22/10/2022 11:45 every : 00:15 (fifteen minutes) ==> It run a script and create records : 22/10/2022 09:00 22/10/2022 09:15 22/10/2022 09:30 … 22/10/2022 11:45 As a Pharmacist I don’t have skills to create a reliable JavaScript code in automation. Any help would be grateful ! :slightly_smiling_face: Thank you, Hadrien

I want to make an automation that runs a script, and in that script I'd like to call an ajax function (either with jQuery somehow or with XMLHttpRequest() etc.) to grab some external data from a Google calendar. Is this possible? I've searched around and can't seem to find any information on it and the script editor says the ajax functions aren't defined, so I'm not sure if/how I can include jQuery if that can help.Thanks

Hello,I am setting up a record to duplicate a record (but only certain fields) in a base by taking input variables and then creating a new record and inputting these into the new record as suchlet recordIdNew = await table.createRecordAsync({    "DateTest": StartDate,      "SingleLineText": SingleLineText,    "PhoneNumberTest": PhoneNumberTest,    "CheckBoxTest": CheckBoxTest,    "LongTextTest": LongTextTest,    "EmailTest": EmailTest,    "SingleSelectTest": {name: SingleSelectTest},}); I have managed to achieve this with all the required data formats but I’m really struggling with Multiple Select.  I am able to pull the data from the original records field and it shows in the console as followsCONSOLE.LOG▶(2) ["AA", "BB"] The issue is, I don’t know how to add it to the new record (like I am able to do with all of the other data types) I have

Hi,I am working on a project requiring syncing complex data to Airtable. After having errors due to some columns containing json data (working on a Python script), I switched my API queries to typecast=true which solved my issue (json data is converter to text).https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/create-records#request-typecastHowever, I was surprised that using this parameter gives me some errors on dates formatted as "2023/01/19 10:12:18" while same data was working correctly with typecast=false :requests.exceptions.HTTPError: ('422 Client Error: Unprocessable Entity for url: https://api.airtable.com/v0/*********/*********', '422 Client Error: Unprocessable Entity for url: https://api.airtable.com/v0/*********/********* [Error: {\'type\': \'INVALID_VALUE_FOR_COLUMN\', \'message\': \'Cannot parse date value "2023/01/19 10:12:18" for field date_intervention\'}]')Isn't typecast=true supposed to be more permissive ? If so, why such errors on dates while they are accepted on typecast=

I’m using a button to trigger a Zapier webhook. It’s annoying that every time the button is clicked, a browser window is opened. As I can select to run a script with the push of a button, is there any way to run a script in the background that triggers the webhook? Thanks!

Good day,I would like to download attachments via a link keeping the original file name. I managed so far to upload a document with the correct file name but the issue is that when downloading in another page it becomes a new generic names for all filesDo any of you know a solution to this? This is currently being integrated with Softr.Thanks

Hi all!I'm very new to scripting and I have this code that was working before until recently. When I run the code I see  TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getCellValue') at main on line 271Line 271 is   let client_apps = globals.site.getCellValue("Apps")  For reference this is the first part of the code that the line is referencing:  var globals = {} let client = await input.recordAsync("Which client has a change?", base.getTable("📊 Clients")); const sitesTable = base.getTable("🌐 Sites"); const sitesQuery = await sitesTable.selectRecordsAsync({fields: ["Apps", "Client", "Site Name", "Site Type", "Status"]}); // Does the client have multiple OTT sites? If so, we'll need to know // which app suite the change applies to // Get all the client's Site records var clientSites = sitesQuery.records.filter(record => record.getCellValue("Client") && (record.getCellValue("Client")[0].id === client.i

Hi guys and gals 🙂I am a newbie to Airtable, can someone help me out with the script and automation?I want to populate two fields in the column Notes and Points with the data returning from a web API call using bearer token authorization, but I also need to add the parameters included in Product and Quantity in the API call and filter out specific elements from the json file to be stored in the field Notes and Points.I have the following columns:RunWork | Status | Product | Quantity | Notes | PointsRunWork contains the checkbox.Status is either blank, In Progress, DoneNotes and Points will get populated with json data from an API call.My logic would be, If RunWork is checked,-> Then change Status to In Progress-> Then populate Notes and Points using parameters in Product and QuantityWhen all fields are filled,-> then change Status to DoneAny help or code example is greatly appreciated! 

Hi! I'm fairly new to API's and using it to pull data. I'm trying to pull data from all my tables in one of my bases using the AirTable PyAPI. The problem I've noticed is that when I pull these records, the linked records seem to appear as keys (e.g. as ['rec0v48BBolMT6HD1']) but I wanted to map these to the values they link towards in other tables. Is there any way to map these? Thanks!

 Hello,I created Oauth2 integrations on your website, and now I do the authentication request and then the token creation request, like described on your doc.The problem is that I can get the access token, but it doesn't work every time, it seems that I get to randomly. However I always do the same way. I also tried with Insomnia and Postman, and when it does not work, I get the response :'Response': '{"error":"invalid_grant","error_description":"Unrecognized grant code"}'I verified, the code_verifier is the same in the two request (/authorize and /token), so the code_challenge is the same as in the response.Here is my request to /authorize : $"https://airtable.com/oauth2/v1/authorize?response_type=code&client_id={OAuth2Infos.ClientId}&code_challenge={codeChallenge}&code_challenge_method=S256&scope={OAuth2Infos.Scope}&redirect_uri={OAuth2Infos.RedirectUrl}"And for the /token request, I send :authorization_code:<received_authorization_code>, redirect_uri={

Continuing the discussion from Creating new row entries from a long text: Since this thread was closed and I’m facing a similar problem I was wondering if someone could help out. I have a Long text field in my table, lets call it “Task Submission”, that I would like to create entries in another table from each new line of text, as shown in the image below. Is there a Way to script this to run manually or automatically. I have an enterprise plan. I need this because i need users to submit new tasks that need to be followed in another table. thanks

Hi there, is there a way to get the list of workspace collaborators without having an Enterprise subscription? Just getting their name, photo and id

I’m trying to use an offset parameter in an API call in order to retrieve more than the first 100 records. I’m getting this error: {‘error’: {‘type’: ‘INVALID_OFFSET_VALUE’, ‘message’: “The value of offset ‘(record id)’ is invalid”}} Can anyone help with what’s going on here? Is there a different way it’s supposed to be formatted? Thanks!

Not sure this is documented anywhere, but I did find out that there might be a bug in the oAuth 2.0 flow when retrieving a new access token using a technically valid refresh token that isn't the "newest" refresh token.Steps to reproduce:1. Go through oAuth flow and store the refresh token as refreshToken1.2. Get new access token from refreshToken1. (this will work perfectly)3. Go through oAuth flow again with either the same bases or different bases and receive new refreshToken24. Try to get a new access token from refreshToken1 (this will fail)5. Try to get new access token from refreshToken2 (this will succeed)So if we have a user that goes through the flow twice, giving different bases to different parts of the application, are we supposed to remove all instances of the previous refresh token? I believe most other instances of oAuth 2.0 flows will allow you to continue using the previous refresh tokens so this might be a bug. 

Hi, my app Finta is using the new Oauth authentication. Right now, my method is that for every request, check to see if the access token has expired or will expire within the next 10 minutes. If so, request a new access token and then proceed. I'm running into an issue where my app attempts to refresh the user's access token potentially multiple times at the same time. For example, my user might request to see their Airtable bases on the frontend at the same time that a function on the backend performs an action that requires using the user's credentials.Unfortunately, Airtable revoke's a user's refresh token if it's used more than once 😞. How are other people solving for this? My initial thought is to just create a cron job that runs every 10 minutes that checks to see if any access tokens are expiring soon. If so, refresh. That way, my main application functions won't collide. 

Hi,Looking to have a simple web page with one search field and a button. This web page for the clients, so they can enter their Customer ID, click the button, then a connected epson printer will print the order info based on sortable data.  The amount of search at the same time not that big, we expect  have 10 person each at the same time, so I hope this not affect process speed.I want something pretty on the front end, like our logo and a colorful button.The airtable data is som simple, just a table with Customer ID,  product name and Quantity.would appreciate to know how to achieve that, Thanks 

I'm using Airtable Web API to build a web-application, it's going great so far, every time user updates a cell, I get a notification about it via the email by using a formula of last_modified and comparing it with current time.But here is the error, when a user changes a table fields name to something else, there's no notification.For example here changing "Status" to "asf" there is no notification of, "Status" has been changed to "asf". Anyone might have a function in API to do this?