Airtable and Image Storage

tedpearlman · 2024-08-16T18:29:41.315+00:00

I've seen it mentioned by the WeWeb folks that Airtable causes problems as a backend. Probably for several reasons. But, primarily, because Airtable doesn't store images in a way that they can safely/consistently be accessed through the Airtable API. I can't remember, but I think it had something with not having static file URLs. Anyhow, I assume this problem would be the same if you swap in Toddle for WeWeb.I'm guessing there are folks here using Toddle with Airtable as a backend that have found a workaround for the file storage issue. Care to share?

tedpearlman
1 year ago
I've seen it mentioned by the WeWeb folks that Airtable causes problems as a backend. Probably for several reasons. But, primarily, because Airtable doesn't store images in a way that they can safely/consistently be accessed through the Airtable API. I can't remember, but I think it had something with not having static file URLs. Anyhow, I assume this problem would be the same if you swap in Toddle for WeWeb.

I'm guessing there are folks here using Toddle with Airtable as a backend that have found a workaround for the file storage issue. Care to share?
Lucas G
1 year ago
I know that there are folks here who have also stated that Airtable is not a good backend, not because of images, but primarily because its API and security are just not designed for it at all
The API response times also seemed very slow
Have never used it myself, just from what others have founds in their attempts to use it
It seems like they always end up moving to a proper backend unless it’s a small for fun project

Airtable and Image Storage

tedpearlman

Lucas G