Upload Binary Data

[Brad_Legassick]

Hi Community, is it possible to upload binary data to an Airtable Long text or other field? I need to save the data & use it later. I don’t need to save an image or attachment, just the binary data. Thanks

[Vivid-Squid]

Hi @Brad_Legassick,
Yes you can store it as text in either a long or short text field.

[kuovonne]

How are you planning on uploading the binary data? Will you be using the native interface, the REST API, scripting, or some other method?

Do you already have a method for converting the binary data into text to store it in a text field?

Also keep in mind that text fields can hold a maximum of 100K characters.

[Brad_Legassick]

Hi @kuovonne & @Vivid-Squid thanks for the responses. @kuovonne I am using Make (Integromat) to upload the binary data. I was using the Make data store & it was great. However their is a 10mb data limit for my clients account. The problem is sometimes the record being processed will contain many site photos which we need to store the binary data temporarily & use later on. I can convert the binary to Base64 using functions in Make. I can convert back to Binary using a ToBinary function. I think some files will exceed the 100k character limit. I have tested Google Cloud Storage which seems to have no such character limit. The only issue using Google Cloud Storage (for me) is I need to upload each image individually as opposed to multi file upload like I can do in the Data Store. Thanks for the help.