Is it possible to upload attachments?

[Bryan_McBride]

Looking over the API documentation, it appears that attachments require a url key, so they must already be available on a web server. Is it possible to upload local files to Airtable via the API? I’d like to build my own form that POSTs to Airtable and uploads an image as an attachment, but it doesn’t look like this is currently possible. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

[Emmett_Nicholas]

Right now this isn’t possible with the Airtable API alone. It’s something we’ll think about for future API versions though. A workaround for now is to use a different service (e.g. Filestack, imgur, etc.) to process the upload before then sending the url to Airtable. When Airtable processes the attachment, it will copy the file to Airtable’s own (S3) server for safekeeping, so it’s OK if the original uploaded file url is just temporary.

[Bryan_McBride]

Thanks for the clarification!

[Joshua_Deeden]

+1 For uploading attachments via API. Once I learned this wasn’t possible, my whole world crumbled.

[paul_chelly]

+1, uploading files via URL is pain.

[Man_Wtrnt]

+1, For uploading attachments via API!! would be so helpful…

[Debra_White]

will you ever consider incorporating a CDN or will it always be S3? I’d like to be able to use Airtable to deploy inventory images to a website and am curious about benchmarks.

[Nico]

+1. Does anyone know a service to temporary upload some images?

[Andrew_McAllist]

Would also like to see this added to the API.

[Changsheng_Wu]

What’s blocking this feature?