Airtable credentials#
You can use these credentials to authenticate the following nodes with Airtable.
Prerequisites#
Create an Airtable account.
Using Access Token#
- Open your Airtable Developer Hub.
- Under the Personal access tokens section, click on the Create new token button.
- Select the following Scopes:
- data.records:read
- data.records:write
- schema.bases:read
- Be sure to select the bases this token can Access (or all the bases in the workspace).
- Copy the token displayed in the dialog.
- In the n8n Airtable credentials dialog select the Access Token connection.
- Paste the token in the Access Token field.
- Click on the Save button to create the credentials.
Using OAuth 2#
- Open your Airtable Developer Hub.
- Under the OAuth integrations section, click on the Register new OAuth integration button.
- Provide a name for your OAuth integration.
- In the n8n Airtable credentials dialog select the OAuth 2 connection, copy the OAuth Redirect URL and paste it in the OAuth redirect URL field in the Airtable Developer Hub.
- In Airtable, click on Register integration.
- In the following page copy the Client ID and paste it into the Client ID parameter in the n8n Airtable credentials dialog.
- Click on Generate client secret and paste the secret into the Client Secret parameter in the n8n Airtable credentials dialog.
- Select the following scopes: data.records:read, data.records:write, schema.bases:read and click on Save changes at the bottom.
- In the n8n Airtable credentials dialog click on Connect my account.
- Follow the instruction in the dialog and select the base you want to work on (or to all the bases).
- Click ok Grant access in the dialog to complete the connection.
Using API Key#
API Key deprecation
API Keys will be deprecated by the end of January 2024, see this article for more details. n8n recommends using Personal Access Token instead.