Laravel SDK for Airtable

A simple approach to interacting with Airtables.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require tapp/laravel-airtable

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Tapp\Airtable\AirtableServiceProvider"

Define airtables account information in .env:

AIRTABLE_KEY=
AIRTABLE_BASE=
AIRTABLE_TABLE=
AIRTABLE_TYPECAST=false 

• AIRTABLE_KEY Airtable is requiring personal access tokens for Authorization starting in 2024. A token can be created here: https://airtable.com/create/tokens. If you are upgrading from an API key to access token, simply replace the value previously held in this environment variable with your new token.
• AIRTABLE_BASE can be found here: https://airtable.com/api, select base then copy from URL: https://airtable.com/[Base Is Here]/api/docs#curl/introduction
• AIRTABLE_TABLE can be found in the docs for the appropriate base, this is not case senstive. IE: tasks
• AIRTABLE_TYPECAST set this to true to allow automatic casting.

Example Config

If you need to support multiple tables, add them to the tables config in the config/airtable.php If your table is on a different base than the one set in the env, add that as well.

...
    'tables' => [

        'default' => [
            'name' => env('AIRTABLE_TABLE', 'Main'),
            'base' => 'base_id',
        ],

        'companies' => [
            'name' => env('AIRTABLE_COMPANY_TABLE', 'Companies'),
            'base' => 'base_id',
        ],
        ...
    ],
...

Usage

Import the facade in your class.

use Airtable;

Get records from that table

• This will only return the first 100 records due to Airtable page size limiation

Airtable::table('tasks')->get();

Get all records from that table.

• This will get all records by sending multiple requests until all record are fetched.
• Optional Parameter which is the delay between requests in microseconds as API is limited to 5 requests per second per base, defaults to 0.2 second.

Airtable::table('tasks')->all();
Airtable::table('tasks')->all(500000); // 0.5 seconds

Get one record from the default table.

Airtable::find('id_string');

Filter records

• First argument is the column name
• Second argument is the operator or the value if you want to use equal '=' as an operator.
• Third argument is the value of the filter

Airtable::where('id', '5')->get();
Airtable::where('id', '>', '5')->get();

Filter records by formula

• When using where is not enough you may need to pass in raw filter values.
• Airtable reference

Airtable::table('tasks')->filterByFormula('OR({id} = "abc", {id} = "def", {id} = "ghi")')->get();

Sorting records

• First argument is the column name
• Second argument is the sort direction: asc (default) or desc

Airtable::orderBy('id')->get();
Airtable::orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->get();

You can sort by multiple fields by calling orderBy more than once (a single call with array syntax is not supported):

Airtable::orderBy('id')->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->get();

Create

• Insert a record

Airtable::create(['name' => 'myName']);

First or Create

• First argument will be used for finding existing
• Second argument is additional data to save if no results are found and we are creating (will not be saved used if item already exists)

Airtable::firstOrCreate(['name' => 'myName'], ['field' => 'myField']);

Update or Create

• First argument will be used to find existing
• Second argument is additional data to save when we create or update

Airtable::updateOrCreate(['name' => 'myName'], ['field' => 'myField']);

Airtable::table('companies')->firstOrCreate(['Company Name' => $team->name]);

Update

• First argument will be the id
• Second argument is the whole record including the updated fields

Note: Update is destructive and clear all unspecified cell values if you did not provide a value for them. use PATCH up update specified fields

Airtable::table('companies')->update('rec5N7fr8GhDtdNxx', [ 'name' => 'Google', 'country' => 'US']);

Patch

• First argument will be the id
• Second argument is the field you would like to update

Airtable::table('companies')->patch('rec5N7fr8GhDtdNxx', ['country' => 'US']);

Mass Update or Patch

• Array of data to be updated or patched

Airtable::table('companies')->patch([
    [
        'id' => 'rec5N7fr8GhDtdNxx',
        'fields' => ['country' => 'US']
    ],
    [
        'id' => 'rec8BhDt4fs2',
        'fields' => ['country' => 'UK']
    ],
    ...
]);

Destroy

• Destroy a record

Airtable::table('companies')->destroy('rec5N7fr8GhDtdNxx');

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email steve@tappnetwork.com instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Steve Williamson
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

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