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# **Send a Webhook to Airtable**

Send any webhook to Airtable. Step-by-step guide to forward incoming webhooks into an Airtable base, transforming the payload into the Airtable API format in flight.

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You have a service that fires webhooks — a signup form, a payment provider, an e-commerce platform, a monitoring tool — and you want each event to land as a record in an **Airtable base**. The problem: the Airtable API won't accept the raw webhook. It expects a bearer token and a `fields` object whose keys match your table exactly, and the payload your source sends never looks like that.

[Webhook Relay](https://webhookrelay.com) sits in the middle. It receives the incoming webhook at a stable public URL, **transforms** the payload into the Airtable "create records" format, and delivers it to the Airtable API — no glue server, no Zapier task limits, no maintenance.

## [How it works](#how-it-works)

1. Your source service POSTs its webhook to a Webhook Relay endpoint.
2. A transformation function parses the payload and builds an Airtable API request body.
3. Webhook Relay forwards that to the Airtable API with your token, and a new record appears in your table.

## [Step 1: Create an Airtable token and find your IDs](#step-1-create-an-airtable-token-and-find-your-ids)

1. Go to [airtable.com/create/tokens](https://airtable.com/create/tokens) and create a **personal access token** with the `data.records:write` scope and access to your base.
2. Find your **base ID** (`app...`) and **table name** from the base's API docs page.

## [Step 2: Create a Webhook Relay output to the Airtable API](#step-2-create-a-webhook-relay-output-to-the-airtable-api)

Create a bucket with a public input, then add an output pointing at the Airtable API:

- **Output destination:** `https://api.airtable.com/v0/<BASE_ID>/<TABLE_NAME>`
- **Headers:**
  - `Authorization: Bearer <your-personal-access-token>`
  - `Content-Type: application/json`

## [Step 3: Add a transformation function](#step-3-add-a-transformation-function)

Attach a function to the output that reshapes the incoming webhook into an Airtable record. Map the fields you care about to your table's column names:

```
-- incoming payload is in r.RequestBody
local body = json.decode(r.RequestBody)

local payload = {
  records = {
    {
      fields = {
        Name = body.name or "New event",
        Email = body.email or "",
        Amount = body.amount or 0
      }
    }
  }
}

r:SetRequestBody(json.encode(payload))
```

Each key under `fields` must match a column in your Airtable table and use a compatible value type.

## [Step 4: Point your source at the URL and test](#step-4-point-your-source-at-the-url-and-test)

Configure your source service's webhook to point at your Webhook Relay public URL. Trigger an event — or replay one from the [Webhook Bin](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/webhook-to-airtable/webhook-bin/) — and a new record appears in Airtable within seconds. If Airtable rejects the request, the Webhook Relay logs show the exact error so you can fix the field mapping.

## [Going further](#going-further)

- **Fan out:** send the same event to [Slack](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/webhook-to-airtable/blog/webhook-to-slack/), [Notion](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/webhook-to-airtable/blog/webhook-to-notion/) or a [Google Sheet](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/webhook-to-airtable/blog/webhook-to-google-sheets/) at the same time with [multiple destinations](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/webhook-to-airtable/features/webhook-multiple-destinations/).
- **Test locally first:** inspect the real payload in the [Webhook Bin](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/webhook-to-airtable/webhook-bin/) before you write the mapping.
- **Secure it:** [verify the source signature](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/webhook-to-airtable/blog/verify-webhook-signature/) before forwarding so only legitimate events reach Airtable.

## [Get started](#get-started)

[Create a free Webhook Relay account](https://my.webhookrelay.com/register) and turn any webhook into Airtable records — no servers to run. New to webhooks? Start with [what is a webhook](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/webhook-to-airtable/blog/what-is-webhook/) and [how to transform webhooks](https://webhookrelay.com/blog/webhook-to-airtable/features/transform-webhooks/).