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Andrew_Jones1
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

I have created an excel power query to retrieve data from airtable, I would need to expand this to be able to pull from multiple tables which is fine. My question is, has anyone encountered any issues with making multiple data pulls a day from airtable and getting IP address blocked, similar to what can happen with web scraping data?

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Bill_French
17 - Neptune
17 - Neptune

Hi @Andrew_Jones1, and welcome to the community!

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There are two ways to pull data from Airtable -

  1. Via a webhook
  2. Via an API call

In both cases, you establish a trusted integration. The API requires a key that only you can retrieve, and the webhook requires a URL that is known only to people with access to the data. With trusted requests, you are not scraping, and therefore, you will never encounter this issue.

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Bill_French
17 - Neptune
17 - Neptune

Hi @Andrew_Jones1, and welcome to the community!

No.

There are two ways to pull data from Airtable -

  1. Via a webhook
  2. Via an API call

In both cases, you establish a trusted integration. The API requires a key that only you can retrieve, and the webhook requires a URL that is known only to people with access to the data. With trusted requests, you are not scraping, and therefore, you will never encounter this issue.