PyAirtable — Automate Data Entry with Airtable

Airtable is a great product for storing data in tabular form while being intuitive and accessible for teams. PyAirtable allows us to automate CRUD operations (create, read, update, delete) from Airtable bases from our python scripts. Its a python package that wraps the Airtable API and provides an straightforward interface of functions to work with as well as clean documentation to help new users get started working fast. This is a really useful project and I thought it was worth a share.

While I do not have tons of projects in Airtable, I do find it useful for quickly building out small datasets that have the intention to be shared or built upon. Sometimes a CSV in a Github repo just isnt enough! PyAirtable helps us take that convenience to the next level with python.

Quick Example

Using PyAirtable is really straight forward, after developer “API Key” is generated from the settings➝ Account page.

The API Key is used by pyAirtable in your python scripts to access your airtable bases and tables. The syntax in pyAirtable looks very similar to sqlite3 and pyodbc making it easy to learn if your familiar with python…