Export Airtable to Excel

Why Export Airtable to Excel?

Airtable is a cloud-based platform that combines spreadsheet and database features, allowing flexible, visually appealing data management. It's user-friendly, versatile, and ideal for team collaboration, supporting various use cases like project management and content planning without advanced technical skills.

However, exporting Airtable to Excel offers a wide range of extra capabilities. Here are the top 3 reasons to export Airtable to Excel:

1. It backs up your Airtable data. Keeping Airtable data up to date in an Excel workbook means you are inherently backing up your Airtable data all the time. This is a good insurance policy and offers piece of mind knowing your data is safe on your local device.

2. You can access your Airtable data offline. Once you have imported your Airtable data into an Excel workbook, the data is available offline (and can be refreshed whenever you are connected.)

3. You can perform analysis on your Airtable data in an Excel workbook. Excel is a powerful analysis tool and while Airtable has a great UI, there are some things Excel does really well.

This tutorial is for Microsoft Excel on Windows. If you are using a Mac you can refer to this article here.

Export Airtable to Excel

Step 1.

Create an Airtable Export URL or test this process with our demo URL available to copy and paste below.

https://api.csvgetter.com/AADVgE0BE2k04FgjZJtX

Step 2.

Open a new Excel workbook.

Step 3.

Click the Data tab in the navigation panel.

Step 4.

Click From Web.

Step 5.

Paste your Airtable Export URL in the URL field.

Step 6.

Click OK, and review your import data.

Step 7.

Click Load.

And your Airtable data is in Excel. 🎉

Optional Step 8. Refreshing the Data.

You can refresh your Airtable to Excel export manually by using the Queries & Connections tab or you can schedule a refresh under "Query Properties". This will ensure your data is up-to-date for analysis and also allows you to back up Airtable to Excel on a schedule.

Advanced setup

If you want to keep your Airtable Export URL secure with a bearer token, then you can add this protection feature in CSV Getter. This will ensure your data is secure should you leak your Export URL.

See examples of bearer tokens here.

With this feature enabled, you will need to provide the bearer token you set in Excel. You will need to use the Advanced import option.

Locked URL example

https://api.csvgetter.com/Q1st6NzPE9T7d8hOQWcW

The content of this URL cannot be downloaded without a bearer token.

Step 1.

After clicking From Web, click Advanced.

Step 2.

• Paste in your protected URL as a URL part.

• In the HTTP request header parameters form section, add Authorization: Bearer <your token>.

In this example, the bearer token we set is csvgetter.

Step 3.

Click OK. Review your data as in previous example, and click Load.

And like before the Airtable data should load in Excel.

Test It!

If you'd like to test CSV Getter in Sandbox mode, you can check it out here.