Airtable

ToolJet can connect to your Airtable account to read and write data.Airtable Personal Access Token is required to connect to the Airtable data source on ToolJet. You can generate the PAT by visiting Developer Hub from your Airtable profile.

:::info Airtable API has a rate limit, and at the time of writing this documentation, the limit is five(5) requests per second per base. You can read more about rate limits here Airtable API. :::

Supported Operations

• Listing records
• Retrieving a record
• Creating a record
• Updating a record
• Deleting a record

Listing records

This query lists all the records in a table. The results are paginated and each page can have up to 100 records.

Required parameters:

• Base ID: To find the Base ID, first visit airtable.com/api. Select from the list of bases the base whose ID you'd like to find out. Example Base ID: appDT3UCPffPiSmFd
• Table name: Enter the table name whose data you want to fetch.

Optional parameters:

• Page size: The number of records returned in each request. Must be less than or equal to 100. Default is 100.
• offset: If there are more records, the response will contain an offset. To fetch the next page of records, include offset in the next request's parameters.

Example response from Airtable:

{
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "recu9xMnUdr2n2cw8",
      "fields": {
        "Notes": "sdfdsf",
        "Name": "dsfdsf"
      },
      "createdTime": "2021-05-12T14:30:33.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "recyIdR7bVdQvmKXa",
      "fields": {
        "Notes": "sdfdsf",
        "Name": "dfds"
      },
      "createdTime": "2021-05-12T14:30:33.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "recAOzdIHaRpvRaGE",
      "fields": {
        "Notes": "sdfsdfsd",
        "Name": "sdfdsf"
      },
      "createdTime": "2021-05-12T14:30:33.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "offset": "recAOzdIHaRpvRaGE"
}

Retrieving a record

Required parameters:

• Base ID
• Table name
• Record ID

Example response from Airtable:

{
  "id": "recu9xMnUdr2n2cw8",
  "fields": {
    "Notes": "sdfdsf",
    "Name": "dsfdsf"
  },
  "createdTime": "2021-05-12T14:30:33.000Z"
}

Creating a record

Required parameters:

• Base ID
• Table name
• Records

Example Records:

[
  {
    "fields": {
      "Notes": "sdfdsf",
      "Name": "dsfdsf"
    }
  },
  {
    "fields": {
      "Notes": "note1",
      "Name": "dsfdsf"
    }
  }
]

Click on the run button to run the query.

:::info NOTE: Query must be saved before running. :::

Example response from Airtable:

{
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "rec5RuZ1COoZGtGDY",
      "fields": {
        "Notes": "sdfdsf",
        "Name": "dsfdsf"
      },
      "createdTime": "2022-02-07T20:25:27.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "recaYbFPonNNu6Cwj",
      "fields": {
        "Notes": "note1",
        "Name": "dsfdsf"
      },
      "createdTime": "2022-02-07T20:25:27.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

Updating a record

Required parameters:

• Base ID
• Table name
• Record ID

Example body:

Click on the run button to run the query.

:::info NOTE: Query must be saved before running. :::

Example response from Airtable:

{
  "id": "recu9xMnUdr2n2cw8",
  "fields": {
    "Notes": "Example Notes",
    "Name": "change"
  },
  "createdTime": "2021-08-08T17:27:17.000Z"
}

Deleting a record

Required parameters:

• Base ID
• Table name
• Record ID

Click on the run button to run the query.

:::info NOTE: Query must be saved before running. :::

Example response from Airtable:

{
    deleted: true
    id: "recIKsyZgqI4zoqS7"
}