Retrieve column names via API

[Yana_Mazo]

Hi there
is there any option to retrieve column names?
Something similar to Google Sheets:
Method: spreadsheets.values.get
if range A1:X1 provided, then column names are returned.

[dillingham]

Make a call to the table index and read the field keys.

[kuovonne]

However, if any fields are blank, the API will not return those fields.

[Ishwar_Asolkar]

If all the fields are blank, then also how to retrieve the field names from the airtable API?

[kuovonne]

You can look into using the Metadata API to get all fields, even if there is no data.

[Michael_Johnso1]

Hello, I’m sorry to bring a somewhat aging post back to life, but I’m also interested in just being able to pull in the column names. It was mentioned to make a call on the index table. But I don’t see documentation for that. Is the index table something that always exists or something I’d have to create in my database?

Thank you for the help.