Airtable's incoming webhooks are great. For developers and low-code aficionados alike, this feature makes Airtable more programable and helpful.
We wanted to help unpack this new feature for the community, so we wrote up a tutorial featuring an Airtable webhook integration we use everyday → Stripe. Give it a read:
https://blog.syncinc.so/the-complete-developers-guide-to-airtable-automation-webhooks
Setting up an incoming webhook is a three step process:
You can integrate webhooks from all sorts of services - Salesforce, Jira, and Shopify to name a few. Or, you can also build webhooks that work with Airtable into your own first-party services.
Hope you find this useful. And if you have any feedback, suggestions or requests for more tutorials - let me know in your comments.
Whaaaat....
I might just retire Firestore for good. 🤯
On a serious note, the work Eric and Anthony are doing @ https://syncinc.so is AMAZING and they're just awesome people.
If you want to get an POC/MVP built in a day... there is no better combo than Airtable and Sync.
I'm starting to consider just using Sync as my production database, forever. 🤔
Outgoing Webhooks would be neat.
Outgoing webhooks is already possible With the script automation. It's no a perfect/practical solution, but works flawlessly.
Interesting. Thanks for mentioning
@nafetswirth -
Does Airtable not have outgoing webhooks currently?
What events and actions in Airtable would you want to trigger outgoing webhooks?
How would you use the webhooks?
Last time I checked they didn't, think it's been on the roadmap for a long time or has been back then.
Some things I can think off:
Basically I want to trigger other flows from Airtable when there is a new record, I think you can do this with Zapier but I think they are only polling.
It's fine but
push
is much better in a serverless event driven architecture thanpull
for example, also for things likeno-code
Huh, you're right, it's super surprising that just a plain "webhook" is not an option. It is such an obvious action that its omission must be on deliberate.
It does look like you can probably send a webhook via the "custom script" part, but that's limited to Pro.
I just noticed that the available actions to do on a trigger are limited to only those that airtable has created/directly integrated with - was hoping that the ability to create a custom integration action existed, but not yet, it seems.
Yeah I think it's been requested a bunch and I was also disappointed that it's not supported yet.
Seems like table stakes to me
Nice. thanks for sharing!