Webhooks for Records

[Sam_Bauch]

Webhooks for records would be really useful.

I’m heavily caching Airtable data on my own server via the API, and if Airtable could notify my server when a record is updated, created, or destroyed, that would help me invalidate the cached data and re-request it.

Ultimately that would mean less calls from my server to the Airtable API, which I imagine would please Airtable.

Are webhooks on the roadmap at all?

[Billy_Mitchell]

This would work for me except its only available for pro plans ($20/month).

[edgaras]

I am not sure why do you need all that, Integromat already have “Watch records” module.

[Dmitry_Si]

Because the module does the polling by timer (at least for the free tier), so it either has extremely long delays or eats up the whole actions budget in a couple of weeks.

[Elizabeth_Aucti]

Hi @Dmitry_Si - can you provide any guidance on how you created the email webhook? I am also trying to avoid Integromat eating up my number of actions…

[Dmitry_Si]

On Integromat’s side, there are different types of webhooks, I’ve created “Email Webhook”. Once created it provides a unique email address.

On Airtable’s side, I created automation to send an email when the row is added and used that email as the destination.
That’s it.

[Databaser]

Webhook trigger is now in alpha!

[Tuur]

The OT was about outgoing webhooks. :slightly_smiling_face:

Still waiting for that one. Would save AT’s back-end a lot of API polling.

[Eugene_Kim]

The issue w/ the webhooks via trigger is that they’ll eat into the automation quota, potentially very quickly if there are lots of records being modified / there are multiple automations on the base. IMO webhooks should not be included in the quota.

[Shawn_Turnbow]

Outbound webhooks for CRUD operations are table stakes for developers wanting to create enterprise solutions with airtable.

[Johannes_Wenige]

Airtable announced that the scripts become free with any pricing plan. Just waiting for them to unlock the scripts. Great solution…