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Improve Airtable import#99

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@simonhammes simonhammes commented Sep 23, 2024 •
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  • Improved log messages
  • Airtable schema is retrieved using Airtable's meta API instead of trying to decude field types from row values
    • Note: This needs the schema.bases:read scope
  • Allows excluding specific column types (e.g. files) from data sync
  • Allows excluding specific columns from data sync using a list of tuples (table_name, column_name)
  • Creates a separate table in the SeaTable base to track columns that need to be manually migrated (e.g. link-formula)

I also commented out two sleep() statements since Airtable's API seems to be quite slow and I never hit a rate limit. Using a library like requests-ratelimiter might be a more robust option to a) prevent rate limits and b) prevent the migration process from being unnecessarily slow.

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SkywalkerSpace commented Sep 29, 2024

Hi, I tested the script and it cannot import data from Airtable.
The Airtable Metadata API is no longer maintained Metadata API documentation and the USER_API_KEY used in the Metadata API cannot be applied after 2024.1. USER_API_KEY and airtable_api_key are not universal.

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simonhammes commented Oct 2, 2024 •
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Hi, I tested the script and it cannot import data from Airtable.

Hi,
did you receive an error message?
Are you sure that the token includes the schema.bases:read scope (as I wrote in the PR description)?

The Airtable Metadata API is no longer maintained Metadata API documentation and the USER_API_KEY used in the Metadata API cannot be applied after 2024.1. USER_API_KEY and airtable_api_key are not universal.

Where does it say that the API is deprecated? It only says that the documentation has moved and is now available at https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/introduction (or more specifically, https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/get-base-schema).

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simonhammes commented Oct 2, 2024

I also added another commit (9f585ac) which ensures that table names are properly encoded before being sent to Airtable's API.

This fixes a recent issue by one of our customers who tried to migrate a base that contained table names with slashes.

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SkywalkerSpace commented Oct 10, 2024

Sorry, it was my mistake. It can import data after adding schema.bases:read permission to access token.

@SkywalkerSpace SkywalkerSpace merged commit ab2c683 into master Oct 10, 2024
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simonhammes commented Oct 10, 2024

@SkywalkerSpace Thank you! Can you create a new release on PyPI?

@simonhammes simonhammes deleted the airtable-import-improvements branch October 10, 2024 09:23
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