I am building a custom extension which will send data from Airtable to a third party API (the user will provide their API key to this API). This third party API will then send updates to the base, which will update a given record. I cannot find any solid example of how to create a custom extension that can update a base async (this API runs twice a day) rather than when a button is clicked or another action performed by the user. I know I can use an Automation to trigger the response to the incoming webhook, but I want it to all be bundled within the extension. Is there no way to do this without having the extension and automation separate?
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A custom extension cannot accept incoming webhooks. A custom extension also only run when its dashboard is open.
Are you building this just for yourself or do you want to turn this into a product?
Can you set up your third party service to use the Airtable web API to update the base, instead of an incoming webhook?
It would be better to use google apps script, you can publish web apps that respond to get and post requests and also create scripts that run on a schedule.
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