Development & APIs

Is there a way to duplicate a base with the API?

Hello, Given: var Airtable = require('airtable'); var base = new Airtable({apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY'}).base('app6wt6DBFn40vPRg'); base('Project List').select({ // Selecting the first 3 records in Master List: maxRecords: 3, view: "Master List" }).eachPage(function page(records, fetchNextPage) { // This function (`page`) will get called for each page of records. records.forEach(function(record) { //do stuff }); fetchNextPage(); }, function done(err) { if (err) { console.error(err); return; } }); How can maxRecords be determined dynamically via an API call? Is this the only way? Get the number of records in a table via API API Yes, a webhook with a script action. Even with a very full table, this will run in about 5s, whereas, an API process might require 15 seconds or more and will slow even more at scale. I tested the following on 37,000 records with 58 fields. I believe that by selecting fields: you are essentially ens

I have two tables: Member Profile Update Profile Members can submit updates to their profile using a form that goes to the Update Profile table. They pick the member to update when they submit the form, linking the two records. I then review the updates and would like to click a button that runs a script copying the details from Update Profile to overwrite the linked record in Member Profile. Can someone help point me in the right direction for how to script this? I’m particularly lost as to how to read the contents of a specific cell from the current record. Thanks!

Hi there is there any option to retrieve column names? Something similar to Google Sheets: Method: spreadsheets.values.get if range A1:X1 provided, then column names are returned.

As the title says. How would this be written differently to avoid this error? My test environment only had 10 records, tonight was its first scheduled automation run and it grabbed 95 records for this process. // After Club Automations let table = base.getTable(“Children”) let view = table.getView(“Present”); let query = await view.selectRecordsAsync ({ fields:[“Pts this week”, “Spent Today”, “Total Spent”, “Points”, “Attendance”, “Last Club”], sorts: [ {field: “Pts this week”}, ] }); let totes = 0; let today = new Date() for (let record of query.records){ // Multiply 'Pts this week" by 10, add to ‘Points’, Subtract 'Spent Today, write new total to “Points” field totes = 10 * Number(record.getCellValueAsString("Pts this week")); totes = totes + record.getCellValue("Points") - record.getCellValue("Spent Today"); await table.updateRecordAsync(record, {"Points": totes}); // Add ‘Spent today’ to ‘Total Spent’ and clear ‘Spent today value’ totes = record.getCellValue("Spent Today") + recor

Hi there, Can anyone help me? I have built a custom app for a customer (about 2 years ago) and I am now working on a different computer. I do not have a copy of the files. Is there a way I can download the code if I know the security details?

Hello! I’m writing a custom app to print information from my base on adhesive labels using a Zebra TLP2824 Plus printer, via Zebra Browser print. I’ve written the script below to gather, format and print the required information, but my amateur at best programming knowledge is holding me back a little bit. The functionality I’m going for is the following: once a button in an Airtable view is pressed, labels print for all records linked to a parent record. This works when the app is loaded from the button itself, but if the app loads without the useRecordActionData already loaded, I can’t get it to load without it throwing the following error: Rendered more hooks than during the previous render. Which is obviously right, because I’m accessing more data than requested initially, but I can’t figure out how to work around this! I’d really appreciate some help. Thanks! import {initializeBlock, useBase, useRecords, useRecordById, useRecordActionData} from '@airtable/blocks/ui'; import ZebraB

The documentation for Script Actions states the following regarding the output API: The output API can currently return a maximum of 6MB of data. There are three ways I can see this being interpreted, and I’m not sure which is correct: Each individual call to output.set() has a 6MB limit Within a single Script Action, multiple calls to output.set() have a cumulative limit of 6MB Within a single Automation with multiple Script Actions, all Script Actions put together have a cumulative limit of 6MB for calls to output.set() Does anyone know which of these is correct?

Good morning, Airtable Community! I am getting into some Python automation scripts and working with Airtable for the first time (translation: relative n00b all around). I am looking to programmatically create a couple hundred records at a time, and each record has a thumbnail JPEG image that I want to include as a Screenshot attachment. I understand that Airtable requires a URL to the JPEG rather than a path to the local file, but so far all of the cloud storage options that I have at my disposal (well, both - Google Drive and Dropbox) construct a unique URL with a long string of arbitrary characters that I don’t yet have access to in my script. My question - how do you smarter folks accomplish this, is there a scriptable step that I am missing? OR, is there a service or trick that I can use to make a consistent, identifiable URL (i.e. http://somestorage.com/SameNameAsTheLocalFile.jpg")? Thanks for any further insight that any of you can provide! Steve

Hi there, I’m hoping to get some help with a workflow I’m trying to figure out. I have a base with records that include a checkbox for an approval, as well as a field who approved it, and a last modified time stamp to track when it was approved. So far I’ve been able to base this off an automation that when the Status (drop-down) moves to “Ready for Review”, the Slack message goes out and asks for a review. Now what I’d like to add is a link/button that will allow the person or people receiving the Slack message to click it, and it should then change the checkbox to checked for the approval (and ideally noting who it was; but willing to let that go if it’s too hard). I’ve been reading up on webhooks and similar solutions, but wanted to poll the community what could be a good way to do that. Thanks in advance for any help. Kind regards, Paul.

Hi, Noob scripter here I’d like to create an automation based on a response from an email, that will trigger an update on my airtable. This is how I want the flow to work. Based on a status I send an email that contains a link for the receiver to click once a job is completed. this link is the webhook I generated via the airtable script. once clicked this webhook updates the status of the airtable record. After doing a lot of reading on the webhook I now understand that you need to create a POST request with an object (excuse my lack of knowledge I’m very noob at scripting) or payload for the webhook to deliver. This has raised a few questions for me. How do I script the payload to be inserted into this webhook for the user. i.e. {"record": Record_ID, "status": "accepted"} Are webhooks unique? because I’ll be sending out unique webhooks and I worry that the URL changes to the last updated record id. Is my logic on the right track with this?

I recently came up with a useful tool for my Airtable toolkit, and I thought I would share it in case others may find useful. On a recent project, I needed to transform a large amount of data into a JSON object for use by external applications. Unfortunately, I quickly ran up against Airtable’s 100,000 character limit on text fields. It occurred to me that if I could find a way to compress the JSON data, I could fit more data into a cell and wouldn’t have to worry about the character limit. There are a handful of javascript libraries out there for text compression, but what I settled on using is the lz-string.js library. It is based on LZW compression, and was designed for use on mobile browsers, meaning that it is fast, and optimized enough to use in Airtable Automations without going over the CPU time caps. Due to its repetitive nature, JSON data compresses very well—results will vary depending on the structure of your data, but with my current data I’m able to fit the equivalent of

I wrote my first script, tested it and it works ! I Used the Script template from " Table optimizer" to convert “wide” table to “long” one. Now I am trying to utilize this script in my Automation routine using trigger and it doesnt run. I coped and pasted script into Automation, but when I test it, it give me error: TypeError: input.config.table is not a function Any help ?

I have written a little vue.js app. I need it to access more than 100 records in my table though. How do I do that? Here is my code.var app = new Vue({ el: ‘#app’, data: { items: [] }, mounted: function(){ this.loadItems(); }, methods: { loadItems: function(){ // Init variables var self = this var app_id = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"; var app_key = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"; this.items = [] axios.get( “https://api.airtable.com/v0/"+app_id+"/Donor Honor Roll?view=Grid%20view”, { headers: { Authorization: "Bearer "+app_key } } ).then(function(response){ self.items = response.data.records }).catch(function(error){ console.log(error) }) } } }) Any help is appreciated.

Hello, i tried the resp.json, resp, resp.text but the result of my api request hasn’t shown, sometimes it show the redirection:false when i use the resp.json and resp.text it show only “function” const ws = "https://api.writesonic.com/v1/business/content/ai-article-writer-v2?&end_user_id=test1&engine=economy&language=en"; let config = { method: 'post', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'application/json', 'X-API-KEY': 'apikey' }, body : JSON.stringify({ "article_title": atitle, "article_intro": asection, "article_sections": [ 'Tourist information about the city of Vitrolles in the department of Bouches-du-Rhone 13', 'Tourist information about the city of Abbeville in the department of Somme 80', 'Tourist information about the city of Ablon-sur-Seine in the department of Val-de-Marne 94' ] }), data : data }; try {

I’m struggling to pass an empty date to Airtable without throwing an error. My integration is with python, and so far I’ve tried an empty string and Python’s None (i.e. null) keyword. But with the None keyword I run into this error… ‘422 Client Error: Unprocessable Entity for url: https://api.airtable.com/v0/…[Error: {‘type’: ‘INVALID_VALUE_FOR_COLUMN’, ‘message’: ‘Cannot parse date value “None” for field Effective Date’}]’) Passing None to other fields clears the fields correctly so I’m really hoping this isn’t an API limitation where we can’t clear dates? Thanks for any thoughts!

Hi all, I have a form which sends data into a grid view. One of these columns has 7 options as a single select each with a rating number followed by a rating name. I created a column within the grid view that runs a script I wrote which essentially checks the input column and isolates the rating number in the new column for quick data pulls. However as our form inputs increase, I created an automation that would run this script every time a form was submitted and lately I have been getting the 15 mutations error. Would anyone be able to help me review my code and see if I wrote an unsustainable program? let table = base.getTable("Intakes/Submissions"); let view = table.getView("Partner Creator Survey External"); let csat = await view.selectRecordsAsync({fields: table.fields}); for (let line of csat.records) { let csatRating = line.getCellValue("CSAT Creator"); switch(csatRating.name) { case "1. Very dissatisfied": await table.updateRecordAsync(line.id,

Hi. I would like to create a template script that will create a bunch of rows for me. Two fields in my table are single select fields. The fields are ‘Type’ and ‘Image Order’. How do I choose existing values in those fields? See my code below. I’m getting the following error: Error: Can’t create records. invalid cell value for field ‘Type’. Cell value has invalid format: must be an object Single select field value must be an object with at least one of ‘id’ or ‘name’ as a property. // Create three records in the Vendors and Contacts table let table = base.getTable("Detail Page Resources"); let recordIds = await table.createRecordsAsync([ { fields: { 'Type': 'Primary Image', 'Image Order': '1', }, }, // Specifying an empty fields object will create a new record with no cell values set { fields: {}, }, ]); output.text("Created " + recordIds.length + " records!"); //Field 'Type' id is fldulSwbmghIAHeUU //Pr

Hi - I’m new to scripting so hoping this is an easy resolution! I’m making an automation to update a record based on if the values in two different columns are equal. If they’re equal, I’d like to set another column value as one thing (Booked), otherwise set it as something else (Not Booked). In my automation, I find the records I’d like to check and can access their record IDs in the script. I can also get the values of the two columns I’d like to compare (teacherNameList and bookedTeacherList). I’m having trouble accessing the values of the teacherNameList and bookedTeacherList… I know that the first record pairs with the first value of the teacherNameList and the BookedTeacherList – is there a way to put these together and loop through? I think I can do this by accessing the entire table and then finding the recordIDs, and using “getCellValue,” but since I already have the values from finding them in the previous automation step I feel like there’s a better way. I imagine the code s

Hey Y’all, So sometimes I find myself in a situation where I want to do something that sounds simple: I want to link a record to multiple records at a time. Which is usually easy if there’s only one linked record present in a field, but not so much if linked records already exist. For example: Say I want to add Christmas Day to everyone’s PTO requests in the below table. I can’t copy and paste because that will overwrite the existing records and I want to keep those. I can technically update it bulk from the PTO Requests table, but only if I have my People names in a comma separated array, which I don’t. So I’m using a script. I’m sure you can dial this in to your needs a little bit more, but this script works by adding everyone in the People table to the visible records in the Holiday view of the PTO table. Example base here. Script here let ptoTable = base.getTable('PTO'); let holidayView = base.getTable('PTO').getView('Holidays'); let holidayQuery = await holidayView.selectRecor

Hello, Everyone! I’m facing with the strange issue on retreving records on Today Date. Please help me with my issue. I’m gonna filter records on this: $filtered_row = $airtable->getContent( ‘Invoiced’, [‘filterByFormula’ => “IS_SAME({LastModifiedTime}, ‘. $today_date .’)”]); In other words, I’m gonna compare the “LastModifiedTime” field in record with today date. How can I do this?

Airtable Dynamo DB Intergration with API Gateway not working.Throws error Missing Authentication while using fetchAsync. The API works well in Postman.Please help me resolve

My app is reading data from multiple tables, then displays them in context and interconnected. To be able to react to user changes I’m using the useRecords hook, so that updates propagate to the app. When searching why the app loads so slowly I realized that it starts over and over again, with each useRecords hook. Is there a way/pattern to avoid this, while still being able to read all the necessary table data? My code: ... const base = useBase(); // get all necessary Airtable tables const tables = React.useMemo(() => { return { productTable: base.getTableByNameIfExists(Constants.PRODUCTS_TABLE_NAME), costTable: base.getTableByNameIfExists(Constants.COST_TABLE_NAME), contactsTable: base.getTableByNameIfExists(Constants.CONTACTS_TABLE_NAME), conversionTable: base.getTableByNameIfExists(Constants.CONVERSIONS_TABLE_NAME), contributorTable: base.getTableByNameIfExists(Constants.CONTRIBUTORS_TABLE_NAME), }; }, [base]); console.log('tables ha

Hello, Everyone! I have not a big issue on filtering the records by their Last Modified Time field. Here is the code: $airtable = new Airtable(array( ‘api_key’ => config(‘services.airtable.api_key’), ‘base’ => config(‘services.airtable.base_id’), )); $today_date = Carbon::now()->toDateString(); $filtered_row = $airtable->getContent( 'Invoiced', ['filterByFormula' => "AND( LastModifiedTime = '. $today_date .' )"]); This is in the Laravel Controller. But it’s not working, returns the empty array as response. Anybody, help me out. Thank you in Advance!

Hello, i would like to know if my connectivity of importing the axios module javascript is working because i tried this one but it result to blank. await getAxios() async function getAxios() { const response = await fetch("https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/axios/dist/axios.min.js"); const minifiedLibrary= await response.text(); eval(minifiedLibrary) } const ws = "https://api.writesonic.com/v1/business/content/ai-article-writer-v2?&end_user_id=test1&engine=economy&language=en"; let config = { method: 'post', url : "https://api.writesonic.com/v1/business/content/ai-article-writer-v2?&end_user_id=test1&engine=economy&language=en", headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'application/json', 'X-API-KEY': 'apikey' }, data : data }; axios(config).then((response) => { console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data)); }) .catch((error) => { console.log(error); });