How to generate a Personal Access Token (API key) in Airtable

A Personal Access Token (PAT) in Airtable is a secure way to authenticate and authorize access to your Airtable data without using your username and password. PATs can be customized with specific permissions (scopes) and access levels, allowing you to control what parts of your Airtable data the token can access. Personal Access Tokens function similar to how the old Airtable API keys used to function.

Below are the steps needed to generate a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use to configure your AirPower sync between Shopify and Airtable.

  1. Access Developer Hub

    • Open Airtable and click on your account in the upper right corner.
    • Select Developer hub from the dropdown menu.

  2. Create New Token

    • In the Developer hub, click on the blue + Create new token button.

  3. Configure Token

    • Give your Personal Access Token a name (e.g., "AirPower token")
    • Choose the scopes (permissions) for your PAT. For use with AirPower you need to select the following scopes
      • data.records:read
      • data.records:write
      • schema.bases:read
    • Select the base(s) that you'd like to use with AirPower

  4. Review your selections and save the new PAT

You can now use the Personal Access Token in the Settings tab in AirPower to configure your sync.

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