Airtable lets you create powerful databases, organize your information, and connect it to your applications.

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Overview

Create Account

Sign up for an Airtable account

Get API Key

Generate your Airtable API key

Copy into Create

Add your API key to Create’s secrets

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Account Creation

1

Visit Airtable Website

Go to airtable.com and click “Sign up” in the top right corner

2

Choose Signup Method

  • Sign up with email/password
  • Or continue with Google, Apple, or other authentication options

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Generate API Key

1

Access Account Settings

2

Create Personal Access Token

  1. Navigate to the “Personal Access Token” section
  2. Click “Create new token”
  3. Name your key (e.g., “Create Integration”)
  4. Add read and write data scopes
  5. Add your workspace table
3

Copy Your PAT Token

  1. Copy the generated PAT Token
  2. Store it securely.

Keep your PAT Token secure - it grants access to your Airtable data

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Get Base and Table ID

1

Open Your Airtable Base

  1. Navigate to the Airtable base you want to connect to
  2. Look at the URL in your browser
2

Extract Base and Table ID

  1. The Base and Table ID is in the URL after “airtable.com/” and typically starts with “app”
  2. Copy this ID - you’ll need it when connecting to your base

The Base and Table ID format looks like: app12345abcdef/tb12345abcdef

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Add to Create Project

1

Add the integration

  1. In your Create project, type / in the chat
  2. Select “Airtable” from the menu
2

Add your API key

  1. Paste your Airtable API key into the “AIRTABLE_TOKEN” field
  2. Add your Base ID to the “AIRTABLE_BASE_ID” field
  3. Add your Table ID to the “AIRTABLE_TABLE_ID” field

Need a new token? Generate one in your Airtable account settings.

3

Use it

You can now use prompts with the integration to manage your Airtable data.

Some examples:

  • Create a new record in my Airtable base with /Airtable
  • Fetch data from my Products table using /Airtable
  • Update customer information with /Airtable

Airtable has API rate limits - implement caching for frequently accessed data.

Example prompt for optimization:

When using /Airtable, cache the retrieved data in my application state

Your Airtable integration is now ready! Use the /Airtable command in chat to manage your data.

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