Integrate the PostgreSQL API with the Airtable API
Setup the PostgreSQL API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Airtable API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate PostgreSQL and Airtable remarkably fast. Free for developers.
Popular PostgreSQL and Airtable Legacy Actions#
Create Records
Create records in a table. Returns an array of record objects created if the call succeeded, including record IDs which will uniquely identify the records within the table
List Records
Lists records in a given table.
Update Records
This action accepts an array of update objects. Each of these objects should have two properties: 1) fields, which contains all of your record's cell values by field name, and 2) id, the ID of the record in Airtable you'd like to update. You can include all, some, or none of the field values.
DELETE /{table_name}/{record_id}
Delete a record from the table
GET /{table_name}/{record_id}
Get a record from the table
Connect PostgreSQL#
const { Client } = require('pg')
const { host, user, password, port, database } = auths.postgresql
const client = new Client({
host,
database,
user,
password,
port,
})
await client.connect()
this.results = (await client.query("SELECT NOW()")).rows
await client.end()Connect Airtable#
const Airtable = require('airtable')
const base = new Airtable({apiKey: auths.airtable.api_key}).base(params.base)Community Posts#
Airtable Webhooks with Slack + Pipedream
We love Airtable here at Pipedream. But Airtable lacks one killer feature — webhooks. We took advantage of Airtable’s Slack notifications and built a way to send webhooks to an HTTP endpoint every time a record is created or updated in a base. It takes 10 minutes to setup and it’s free.
Webhooks workaround using Slack
This has been an open item in the Airtable support community for a few years, see "Webhooks for Records 393" and here 39, & here 28, and we are excited to offer a free solution to the community. Here is the high level solution: Based on the transitive property (A=B and B=C, then A=C), Airtable supports Slack Notifications, and Slack supports webhooks, so Airtable supports webhooks! You just have to know how to set it up correctly. With a simple integration via Pipedream into Slack, all Airtable users can now get near real time notifications of all updated fields and values in Airtable.
Overcoming Airtable Scripting Limitations with Pipedream
How I used Pipedream — Created a workflow having an API endpoint to convert Airtable’s Attachment Image URL to Base64 encode image (to push it to another API). Similarly, there could be a million other use-cases.