Getting Started

There are a whole mess of ways to approach this, from using Airtable as a pure database backend that feeds information via API to another service to just directly embedding Airtable interfaces into your site pages. 

At the simplest level, you can embed many of the Airtable views and interface layouts (gallery, list, calendar, etc.) as iframe plugins on a web page. Those elements are not editable by CSS though and there’s not a ton of customization room. As an example, here's a public facing calendar iframe plugin I’m utilizing.

Then there are slightly more bespoke solutions like https://www.basefront.app/ that provide some customization options but are still pretty constrained.

Past that there are portal builders and such like Pory, Noloco, and Softr that give you tons of customization options to basically build a whole website on Airtable data.

Those are just some of the no-code/low-code options, you can go a lot further into web development land using Airtable API exports, but that stuff is beyond me.

Thank you for providing this information, it is very helpful! I will look into these options.

I would like to have something more customizable, thinking an API could be the case. I haven’t worked with APIs in awhile but I’ll check to see if there are some resources on implementing this. Thank you again!

Hey ​@DaniellePhillips!

As mention ​@DisraeliGears01, the leanest version you can go with is embedding a view on your site. See documentation here. I would suggest you go with that.

If you are looking to build something more custom, I would suggest Softr.

Please let us know if you have any further question when building!

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation