API

API record limits You can access the documentation for the Web API here , or directly from your base by clicking on the Help button in the upper right-hand corner while you are logged in on a laptop or desktop. This will bring up a list of a...

Understanding the basics of Personal Access Tokens Personal Access Tokens or PATs allow users to create multiple access tokens that allow for a wide range of access to the information held in Airtable bases. For example, on the narrow end, you ...

Overview of Webhooks API The Webhooks API allows developers to be notified in real-time about changes in their base that they care about, from newly created records to a field being updated in an existing record, to a record moving in or out of a v...

Service accounts in the Admin Panel Service accounts are non-user accounts created by admins that can access Airtable's APIs .  Enterprise Scale admins can create these service accounts, add them to bases and workspaces, and use them t...

Learn how to filter or sort the results of an API response. Filtering records in API requests There are two different ways to filter records in API requests: One way to filter records is to pass a view parameter in an API request contain...

Airtable has many APIs that developers use to build customized software. As with any software, these APIs will evolve over time as we aim to make things better for our developers and community. With such evolution, there are times when components ma...

At times, you may encounter errors while making API calls. This article is meant to explain and troubleshoot the most common errors or issues that folks run into. For an exhaustive listing of errors please refer to our API documentation . If you en...

Understanding rate limits Airtable API allows you to integrate data in Airtable with any external system. The API closely follows REST semantics, uses JSON to encode objects, and relies on standard HTTP codes to signal operation outcomes. Air...

Requests to Airtable’s Web API are limited to a 16,000-character URL length. Requests exceeding this character limit typically involve complex formulas and filtering workflows, significantly increasing URL lengths when passed as query parameters. ...