Development & APIs

A simple script to fetch search results from Google based on keywords in your base: let table = base.getTable('Searches'); let resultsField = table.getField('Results'); let record = await input.recordAsync('Record', table); let searchQuery = await input.textAsync('Search query'); if (searchQuery) { table.updateRecordAsync(record, {[resultsField.id]: 'Updating...'}); output.markdown(`Searching for ${searchQuery}...`); let results = await searchAsync(searchQuery.split(',').map(term => term.trim()).join('\n')); await table.updateRecordAsync(record, {[resultsField.id]: results}); output.markdown(results); } async function searchAsync(searchTerm) { let response = await fetch( `https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/<TASK ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>`, { method: "POST", headers: {"content-type": "application/json"}, body: JSON.stringify({queries: searchTerm}), }, ); let re

I submitted the form months back and still waiting for the API, I want to create one automated tool. Any sort of deadline or page where I can track the status?

Hi, I want to be able to gather information from a conference management tool called Confex (www.confex.com). Where do I even begin to understand how to integrate with an IFTT tool? What questions do I need to get answered?

Hi all, I’m not sure if this is possible and if so, how, but I have a to-do list. I have a single line text field called {Title} in Table [Todo Table]. Each record in this table is a task. I also have a checkbox field, called {Done}. I then have a linked record field called {Blocked}. I add linked records in {Blocked} as subtasks. What I would like to achieve is: When I click on the button, the script checks whether {Blocked} is empty (does not contain any linked record) for that record If it’s empty, I need to tick off the checkbox (I have a Filter in place to auto-hide these completed records) If there is a linked record, an error needs to be returned. Ideally, with the content found in field {Title} of the linked record or otherwise just a generic error that there are linked records. I’m not sure if Airtable has any popup that can be generated or any other visual queue? If there is no such thing, the script could just not take any action. This should also give me an indication that

I’m wondering if anyone out there uses SupportBee for a help desk system and if so, have you ever considered or developed an Airtable base to backup all your support tickets to? I know you can export (fetch) tickets using the SupportBee API; the API instructions are here: https://supportbee.com/api#fetching_tickets. There’s a Python script for exporting SupportBee tickets to a database: https://github.com/SupportBee/supportbee-export that’s open source, but I’m not a Python developer and can’t easily put that to work. I thought maybe if someone has done something similar already you might share how to script this. Otherwise, there may be an opportunity for a skilled Airtable scripting programmer to build out this functionality and offer it up to SupportBee customers.

Hello, I am trying to update linked fields but I am getting an error. I know updating linked fields is challenging in Airtable so I went for the scripting route. Find my code below: //grab info from TF inputs let TFinputs = base.getTable("Fishel Inputs 2021"); let TFview = TFinputs.getView('Update Leaf Lease'); // grab record from previous input let TFRec = input.config(); let queryTFinput = await TFview.selectRecordsAsync(); // get all records in TF inputs let updated_record = queryTFinput.getRecord(TFRec.TFRec); let TFPoleNum = updated_record.getCellValueAsString("Pole # Fix"); let TFPanelBar = updated_record.getCellValueAsString("Panel Barcode"); let TFLightBar = updated_record.getCellValueAsString("Light Barcode"); let TFPoleBar = updated_record.getCellValueAsString("Pole Barcode"); let TFDateIn = updated_record.getCellValueAsString("Day of Entry"); console.log(updated_record) //grab record to update let SLLease = base.getTable("Street Leaf Lease TEST"); let SLLview

I have an airtable database of over 1,000 resumes. I’d like to extract a small set of information from each resume and get it in markdown or HTML. I’ve found javascript libraries that can do this alone, but I’m looking for a way to handle that on Airtable. Ideally, I would love to be able to have this automated for the resumes already in the database and resumes that get added. Would be nice to even create a new attachment on the record with the desired results. Any insight would be helpful, thank you!

Hello, Can we import data from API into airtable? If yes how to do so please?

Blacklight detected an AirTable third-party cookie on my site? I would rather not “serve these up” to my end-users. Is there currently a way to disable these using embed code, and if not could you please develop it. Browsers are phasing out third-party cookies anyway, and it’s not a good look for AirTable long-term. edit: reposting original post which was incorrectly marked as spam & closed: Removing Third Party AirTable Tracking Cookie on Embeds Development and integrations Blacklight detected an AirTable third-party cookie on my site? I would rather not “serve these up” to my end-users. Is there currently a way to disable these using embed code, and if not could you please develop it. Browsers are phasing out third-party cookies anyway, and it’s not a good look for AirTable long-term. edit: this post was marked as spam for some reason. Not sure if just I tried to post a reply containing the url

One of our scripts started erroring out last friday. I wasn’t informed until this morning. Getting the error: P: Validate this value before parsing at main on line 5 Thought this was really odd so I added a new scripting block, added the record picker example and changed nothing, same error. Has something changed recently with the scripting block as a whole?

Hi All, I am wanting to add a button to a view so that when it is pressed, all the check boxes in the view are ticked. In an ideal world, pressing this button would also send all the records to be printed (I have designed the printable page in page designer) however this is less important for the time being. any assistance would be appreciated. Rob

If anyone is trying to buid Appsheet apps on top of AIrtable, here’s a few posts you might find useful. And if interested you could provide your own experience. I have found it much more complicated than I expected, and have found very few forum references to help (isn’t anyone else out there trying to do this?) Basic first step, setting up security filters to restrict data access by user profile – I raised this question in AIrtable forum and found this answer in Appsheet forum (my question was already closed before I got a chance to post the answer). How to handle links and table keys if you want to allow Airtable data to be edited and added natively as well as via the appsheet app. I came up with a complicated solution but am wondering if anyone has found an easier way.

I need help writing the following script: Tables: Classes Students Grades (junction table) Each time an Enrollment form creates a new record in the Classes table, the script creates a record for each Student in the Grades table. Grades table is a junction table linking Classes and Students tables. I know there are several community scripts regarding junction tables but I need one that works from just one Class record at a time.

Hi community, I’m working on the integration between ServiceNow and AirTable, the goal is to manage AirTable subscriptions through ServiceNow, so I need to get AirTable user subscriptions into ServiceNow. Looking at the AirTable API documentation, I don’t see anywhere how to do a simple “Get Users”. Using the Enterprise Account > Get Information, I’m only getting the userIds without the other parameters. https://api.airtable.com/v0/meta/enterpriseAccounts/EnterpriseAccountId How can I get the list of AirTable users including all the following basic information? "state": "provisioned", "email": "foo@bar.com", "name": "foo baz", "lastActivityTime": "2019-01-03T12:33:12.421Z" Thanks a lot for your support Regards Alberto

I am using Airtable to send data through to another platform (Formstack Docs aka Webmerge). My base has a main record with a number of linked records per main record. The use case is that each item from the linked records will be a new row on a document. In order to do that, I need to send the data through to the document in JSON. Is there a way that I can produce the JSON of the linked records with a script within Airtable? Ideally I could put that JSON into a long text field. Failing that, is using a code step in Zapier the only other option? Thanks Shaun

Hello! I just wrote a quick snippet to turn records and linked records into labels, but I ran into the nasty surprise that the scripting block doesn’t allow HTML formatting. I can’t really do this in markdown due to the flexibility constraints of the labels I print on. Is there any way to either a) make the Scripting block render HTML or b) easily convert a script to a custom app? Thank you!

Our company is deeply integrated with the Airtable API. In fact, we help other companies build on Airtable - so we monitor the Airtable API closely. Up until a month ago, all our API requests to Airtable were GET requests. With the launch of our proxy, we’re now servicing PATCH/POST/DELETE requests as well. With these new requests, we began to notice some unusual API performance. Requests could intermittently take up to 10 seconds to complete. So we started an investigation to determine what caused this erratic API performance. Our first hypothesis was that base size was the culprit. We ran a benchmark across bases of different sizes, and oddly the 10K base was much slower. Granted, each base had different data in it - but the consistent performance on the other 1K base and 49K base indicated that size wasn’t the issue. So it must be something with the structure of the base that impacts API performance… Read the full post to learn what elements of your base cause the Airtable API to s

Continuing the discussion from Base64 conversion: Wanted to resurrect this 2020 topic for a second because it was locked without a definitive explanation, so maybe I can offer one and help some future coding prodigy keep their anxiousness in check instead of wasting 30 minutes of their life looking into random commits for an answer to what these mean red lines might want from their binary schemes as their own twisted way of procrastinating. So, it would seem that this is a visual bug specific to Monaco, an open-source text editor from Microsoft which powers Airtable’s Scripting app. On my end, these squiggly eyesores only appear if I write btoa instead of BtoA immediately after a DOM refresh. But if I reload the page and use BtoA first, I can btoa as much as I want all over the place. Sd linting quirks don’t affect functionality and the inconsistent accounts from the previous thread suggest the lines might actually originate from a third-party spellchecker (or a rare example of a secon

how can i show linked records for a selected table record that changes dynamicly when i select/deselect rows? i can get selected row ids from cursor, but i am struggling to to select and show linked recods

I am trying to write a script that will look at 4 fields from an older version, and copy the contents of those 4 fields to a newer version of the same data. When I run this, the script finishes super fast, and no records are updated. I know that some matches are being found due to the console.log statement. However, when I check my table that is supposed to be receiving the updates, there are no changes. What is going wrong when I try to update the records? let oldTable = base.getTable("Updated 4/15/21"); let newTable = base.getTable("Imported 4/29/21"); let oldRecordsQuery = await oldTable.selectRecordsAsync(); let newRecordsQuery = await newTable.selectRecordsAsync(); let oldRecords = oldRecordsQuery.records; let newRecords = newRecordsQuery.records; newRecords.forEach((record) => { let found = oldRecords.find((old) => old.name === record.name); console.log(found); if (found) { let newCalledBy = found.getCellValueAsString("Called By"); let newCalled = found.

I noticed three records missing from a table, which had been created via an API call. The API call response indicated success, including a response object containing the same number of records (and with recIDs) as had been POSTed in the call. However, these records do now not appear in Airtable. There is no record of manual deletion in the base trash, and the view is not filtered. I was wondering what could be going on and so decided to look at an automated Airtable snapshot taken on the same day. The records were not in the snapshot, but I did notice that the snapshot was taken at the exact same minute that the API record creation POST call was made for the missing three records. Is it possible that the snapshot process has interfered with the record creation call in some way (perhaps a DB transaction lock or similar), resulting in the Airtable API response to prematurely report successful creation?

Hi! I am learning to build my first Airtbale apps, I completed the basic tutorials, and now would like to be able to add the ability to read a remote JSON to my app. First question I have is: The API methods that work within the scripting app will work for custom apps? In that case is fetch the right way to go for reading remote data? Also, if anyone has a very basic example of an app reading remote data I will really appreciate that. Thanks a lot for your time!

i have set up nodejs and did block run. then i copy the url in App Url field and i get Can‘t connect to your local app, did you block run ? https://localhost:9000/ on local comp is working

Hi All, I’m wondering if there is a simple option to run a script when a checkbox is ticked. The Reason is i am going to take a timestamp and modified by when the check box is ticked. So if I was working: I Would Tick check record and that particular record would open in expanded card view: so it would need scripting, but I cannot work it out at all. any assistance would be appreciated. Rob

I’d like to pass in environment variables to my Airtable Block Code whenever I run and release so that I can configure things like endpoints dynamically based on the environment. Is there a way to do this?