as far as I know the password protection only applies to specific views. The fact that the airtable base has been shared with your account should not affect the scopes of the access token you are using.
I tried recreating the issue with your first approach, and I successfully retrieved data from my own Airtable base using my personal access token.Could you provide additional details, such as any error messages you encountered?
Fetching the records of an Airtable base via API is generally possible.They way these personal access tokens work is that they each have their own scope that can be freely defined. What I mean by that is that you can select what types of operations a...
Finding the BaseIDs using the API might make sense if you are dealing with a lot of bases. You can find the BaseID of a given base as a part of its URL as well - which might make more sense if you are only dealing with a limited number of bases. I ha...