How does this impact you? API keys (and therefore, any integration that used them to connect with Airtable) will continue to work until February 1st 2024. However, to ensure continued access to the Airtable API, you will need to start using the new authentication methods before February 1st 2024.
If you or a developer on your team has used an Airtable API key to build API integrations with Airtable, please migrate to usingpersonal access tokensto authenticate your API requests before February 1st 2024. Your API key usage can be directly replaced with a personal access token provided as an Authorization: Bearer header.
If your API Key use is with a third-party integration, we recommend usingOAuth for authentication. If you are unsure how to set up OAuth for a specific partner or OAuth is not currently available for that partner, we recommend you contact their team for details on when it will be available. Please note that we are working with all integration partners to migrate to our OAuth capabilities, and many will be doing so in the next several months.
In summary, Personal Access Tokens and OAuth are now available (as of January 2023). Airtable API keys will be deprecated on the following timeline:
August 1st, 2023: Users will no longer be able to create new API keys
February 1st, 2024 (next year): Existing API keys cannot be used to access the Airtable API
To learn more about this change, please visit our support article.