Improving refresh time Airtable<>Glide

This issue has come up a bit.

If you use the Airtable Integration on make.com as a trigger, you will run into the same issue. It runs on a cycle of checking your records, whereas a lot of other tools use webhooks for events change.

My only thought I have on how to solve this before the use Airtable API fully launches is to use potentially use Airtable Automations to manually trigger webhooks in Glide:

CleanShot 2023-08-03 at 10.34.04

This would trigger immediately as there is no delay with internal Airtable triggers. But there are limitations with how many Airtable Automations you can use that is borderline not even worth setting it up if you need Automations for other use cases.

The good news is that the new API has webhooks, so this should all be solvable pretty soon.

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@Connor_Finlayson does it work ?
Can you share your script to force the Glide update please ?

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Have you tried it and did it work for you? I also ran into this issue and am looking for any sort of work-around…

Hi,
Unfortunatly no…

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Would really like a solution here. Customers have stopped using our forms because of the delay, which defeats the purpose of having Glide at all.