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Preface: this is the most frustrating API to POST to I have ever worked with, it’s incredible.


I am attempting to POST a new record using Alteryx (a workflow tool with cURL’ish functionality) and I keep getting 1 of two errors:


{"error":{"type":"INVALID_REQUEST_MISSING_FIELDS","message":"Could not find field \\"fields\\" in the request body"}}


Or, when I re-aliased the alteryx field from “data” to “fields” -


{"error":{"type":"INVALID_REQUEST_UNKNOWN","message":"Invalid request: parameter validation failed. Check your request data."}}


Here is the data I am POST’ing:


'{

"fields": {

"Program Name":"Education Test",

"Category":"Education"

"External Id":"a00ie00QA4"

}

}'

This exactly conforms to Airtable’s spec and I am still getting errors. Do you have any suggested approaches for troubleshooting or resolving this?


Edit: worth pointing out that I have been able to successfully POST using Postman, but I am blocked when I am trying to “Productionalize” this in alteryx

I ran into this as well. The API is pretty simple. For me the issue was that I didn’t set the content type to json.


Content-Type: application/json

I ran into this as well. The API is pretty simple. For me the issue was that I didn’t set the content type to json.


Content-Type: application/json


Thanks @John_Fuller, amazingly that worked. I had previously set the header to be


Content-type: application/json

In the alteryx download tool when I was experiencing this issue, and then I changed the header key to Content-Type and I was able to POST to airtable successfully


Was the capital “T” the difference maker?


Out of curisoity, have you solved this problem specifically with airtable and alteryx?

Thanks @John_Fuller, amazingly that worked. I had previously set the header to be


Content-type: application/json

In the alteryx download tool when I was experiencing this issue, and then I changed the header key to Content-Type and I was able to POST to airtable successfully


Was the capital “T” the difference maker?


Out of curisoity, have you solved this problem specifically with airtable and alteryx?


same – capitalization was key for me, setting content_type using needle didn’t work.

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