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Dev tools · September 30, 2022

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AirQL: An Airtable API with OAuth2 access control and permissions

Hey there! At our company, Bit Complete [1], we use Airtable a bunch for managing operations. We really like how easy it is to throw up a form to collect information, or to build automations for offline processing like aggregations. One challenge we kept running into was how to build more complicated interactive apps using the API, while maintaining fine-grained access control to Airtable data. Airtable ties identity to API access control via API keys, which makes it very hard to build apps with realistic access control needs. So we built AirQL! [2] It’s a utility layer between Airtable’s…

AirQL: An Airtable API with OAuth2 access control and permissions launched on September 30, 2022 with 9 votes, #1,057 of 3,464 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

AirQL is a utility layer between Airtable's API and custom/internal web applications. We enable a seamless way to do queries and mutations on your Airtable data, with authentication and granular permissioning builtfrom airql.dev

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey there! At our company, Bit Complete [1], we use Airtable a bunch for managing operations. We really like how easy it is to throw up a form to collect information, or to build automations for offline processing like aggregations. One challenge we kept running into was how to build more complicated interactive apps…

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