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.

Overview of PostgreSQL#

Assuming you want a few paragraphs on what you can do with the PostgreSQL API:

The following examples demonstrate some of the things that can be done with the
PostgreSQL API:

Developing a custom storage engine for PostgreSQL
Adding a new data type to PostgreSQL
Creating a new function for PostgreSQL
Building a graphical user interface for PostgreSQL
And much more!

Connect PostgreSQL#

module.exports = defineComponent({
  props: {
    postgresql: {
      type: "app",
      app: "postgresql",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    const { Client } = require('pg')
    
    const { host, user, password, port, database } = this.postgresql.$auth
    
    const client = new Client({
      host,
      database,
      user,
      password,
      port,
    })
    
    await client.connect()
    this.results = (await client.query("SELECT NOW()")).rows
    await client.end()
  },
})

Overview of Airtable#

Using the Airtable API, you can build applications that can:

Create and manage databases
Add, update, and delete records
Search for records
Sort and filter records
Display records in a variety of ways
Import and export data

Connect Airtable#

module.exports = defineComponent({
  props: {
    airtable: {
      type: "app",
      app: "airtable",
    },
    baseId: {
      type: "$.airtable.baseId",
      appProp: "airtable",
    },
    tableId: {
      type: "$.airtable.tableId",
      baseIdProp: "baseId",
    },
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    const Airtable = require('airtable');
    const base = new Airtable({apiKey: this.airtable.$auth.api_key}).base(this.baseId);

    const data = []
    
    await base(this.tableId).select({
      // pass optional config parameters here
    }).eachPage(function page(records, fetchNextPage) {
        // This function (`page`) will get called for each page of records.
        records.forEach(function(record) {
            data.push(record._rawJson)
        });

        // To fetch the next page of records, call `fetchNextPage`.
        // If there are more records, `page` will get called again.
        // If there are no more records, `done` will get called.
        fetchNextPage();
    })

    return data
  },
})

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.

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