How to get linked records using the API

[Chinara_James]

Hi everyone,
Just wrote a tutorial on how to get linked records. It covers two scenarios

1. Simple display linked record details on the same page as the “parent” e.g Products listing with their associated suppliers
2. Filtering the parent records by a specific e.g Filtering the product listing by supplier

Hope you find this useful.

Chinara James – 3 Feb 19

How to get linked records using the Airtable API | Chinara James

This post is part of a series all about working the Airtable API. If you’re not familiar with Airtable, you should definitely check it out and if you’re not sure about getting started with their API…

[Martin_Edwards]

This is nice, thanks.

I’ve changed my thinking on this a bit, and decided to retrieve the table where the linked records are, and then point to the linked records as and when I need them.

It makes less API requests, and does the heavy lifting upfront (which I’m caching the tables anyway), plus I need the rest of the data at some point.

[Derick_Zihalirw]

This is nice, can you please show us how you did it?