Guides

Getting data in and out of Airtable

Airtable is good at holding things and bad at handing them back. These guides cover the gaps — the exports that do not exist, the imports that duplicate, and the attachment URLs that expire two hours after you collect them.

Attachments

Bulk download all attachments from a base Why there is no native export, why the URLs expire, and how to get every file as one structured ZIP. Bulk upload files to an attachment field The API only accepts public URLs. Here is how to import a folder — or a ZIP — as one record per file.

Export

Export a base to Excel One .xlsx with one sheet per table, instead of one CSV per view and an encoding problem per file. Export a base schema as JSON Every table, field type and link — for migrations, handovers, and AI assistants that have to write scripts against your base.

Import

Import a CSV without creating duplicates Column mapping, type checking before write, and update-by-key so a re-run corrects records instead of doubling them.
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