With the new Call API action/column, you can now call any API and return data directly back into your app as fast as possible. You can enable it on your dashboard under Previews. It requires a Pro plan or above. [CleanShot 2023-08-11 at 12.15.27@2x] Fetching GitHub issues via their API Call API …

[image] Adam_Crossley: Step 4 isn’t GETting the latest records. You can force a cache update by adding a dummy parameter to your URL with a value that changes at the interval you need the response updated. Every time the value changes, Glide will update the cached result.

This is very useful query for the users. They can easily backup their data by calling the API’s.

Hi, I have a PRO plan and don’t have this option? Tried with other columns as well. Enxperimental code is no where to be found. [CleanShot 2023-08-18 at 13.02.01@2x]

It’s a pre-release feature. You can enable it from your Glide Dashboard in the Previews section at the top right.

This is epic @Robert_Petitto ! I’ve been trying to use the URL Construct + API Call to get a record from Airtable. I can get all the records, but cannot use the parameter function to filter the records. Nothing shows up. Any advice on airtable API in this instance? The API docs suggest filterByFormu…

Thanks for your reply! I was trying to use the Glide column ‘Construct URL’ and for some reason the parameter wasn’t being read by Airtable in the ‘Call API’ Glide column. But I got around it! Instead of using ‘Construct URL’ as in your example, I: Made the API URL I needed using the Airtable too…

Great to hear. The caveat of Construct URL is it will always encode your URL the correct way. However, some sites do have special formats for their URLs, so you’ll have to work around it to be able to get to the final result.

If anyone else is doing this and getting issues… My query was fetching “old” (cached?) data from airtable, even when a field had been changed. So I added a date onto the end using the ‘Format date’ Glide column from a date I had captured as part of my form. I just used this column + Glide • Forma…

What format are you sending your date in? You just need to be aware that every time it changes, Glide will update its cached result, and that will count as an update. If you’re using something like YYYYMMDD that’s fine, as it will only change once a day. But if you’re using a full timestamp includi…

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Robert_Petitto August 20, 2023, 11:35pm 28

I’m not terribly familiar with the AirTable API, but a quick search says you first need to encode the the formula. Not sure what type of encoding it needs.

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