Connecting AirTable and LiveCode

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Connecting AirTable and LiveCode

Post by AlexM_Cogapp » Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:53 pm

I'm a long-term LiveCode (and HyperCard) programmer. Recently I have been experiencing the joys of AirTable - it really is very good.

Now I would like to connect the two so I can read and write AirTable data via LiveCode. I'm probably not the only person who would find this useful.

Is it possible? If so, how?

A sample stack would be very handy.

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Re: Connecting AirTable and LiveCode

Post by richmond62 » Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:56 pm

A sample stack would be very handy.
Details of where to find out about AirTable would be handy.

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Re: Connecting AirTable and LiveCode

Post by AlexM_Cogapp » Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:28 pm

I've managed to find a way to read data.

Using my Personal Access Token - you put it in the httpHeaders and it all works.

So far so good.

What I want to do now is to find a way to update and add data to AirTable.

Using 'put' and 'push' doesn't seem to work.

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Re: Connecting AirTable and LiveCode

Post by AlexM_Cogapp » Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:30 pm

richmond62 wrote:
Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:56 pm
A sample stack would be very handy.
Details of where to find out about AirTable would be handy.
Google 'AirTable API'

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Re: Connecting AirTable and LiveCode

Post by paul@researchware.com » Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:53 pm

In addition to the AirTable API reference (already mentioned) at https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/introduction
I believe there are some lessons or tutorials on using LiveCode to access REST API available somewhere at Livecode.com, such as this one: https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/1 ... a-rest-api
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