Integrate the Postmark API with the Airtable API

Setup the Postmark API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Airtable API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate Postmark and Airtable remarkably fast. Free for developers.

Overview of Postmark#

What Is the Postmark API?

The Postmark API enables developers to easily integrate programmatic emailing into their applications. With the API, developers can create, send, and track transactional emails that are designed to enhance user experience and user engagement. The API also provides developers with access to powerful analytics and insights, such as open/click rates, spam complaints, bounces, and unsubscribes.

What Can You Build With the Postmark API?

The Postmark API allows developers to easily incorporate automated email notifications into their applications. Some examples of what you can build using the API are:

Welcome emails
Password reset emails
Email verification reminders
Event notification emails
Automated transactional emails
Billing and invoicing emails
Receipt emails
Email newsletters
Auto-responders and more!

Connect Postmark#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    postmark: {
      type: "app",
      app: "postmark",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://api.postmarkapp.com/server`,
      headers: {
        "X-Postmark-Server-Token": `${this.postmark.$auth.api_key}`,
        "Accept": `application/json`,
      },
    })
  },
})

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#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    airtable: {
      type: "app",
      app: "airtable",
    },
    baseId: {
      type: "$.airtable.baseId",
      appProp: "airtable",
    },
    tableId: {
      type: "$.airtable.tableId",
      baseIdProp: "baseId",
    },
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://api.airtable.com/v0/${this.baseId}/${this.tableId}`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.airtable.$auth.api_key}`,
        "accept": `application/json`,
      },
    })
  }
})

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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