Discover Airtable base IDs, table IDs, and schema via the Meta API
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Documented steps
GET https://api.airtable.com/v0/meta/bases (scope schema.bases:read) — returns bases[] of {id (app...), name, permissionLevel}.
Paginate with the string offset param: pass back the offset value from the previous response until it's absent.
GET https://api.airtable.com/v0/meta/bases/{baseId}/tables — returns tables[] with id (tbl...), name, description, primaryFieldId, fields[] ({id (fld...), name, type, options}) and views[] ({id, name, type}).
Cache ids and prefer them over names in all subsequent record calls — users renaming tables/fields won't break id-based integrations.
Docs: https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/list-bases and https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/get-base-schema
Known gotchas
list-bases only returns bases the token has been granted access to — a missing base usually means a missing resource grant on the PAT, not a missing base.
permissionLevel (none/read/comment/edit/create) tells you what record operations will actually succeed before you try them.
offset is an opaque string, not a page number; there is no total count — iterate until offset disappears.
Field 'type' values (singleSelect, multipleRecordLinks, formula, ...) determine the cell value shape in record APIs — read options (e.g. select choices) from the schema instead of guessing.
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