Airtable Scripting - Delete Multiple Records Automatically

Hi friends of Airtable! This is an easy tutorial in which we create a script to delete records from a given table. I hope you enjoy & let me know if you have any questions!
Keep building good stuff!
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[@oleleafen]

Perfect way to solve, perfect explanation!
Thank you 👍👍

[@burner918]

This was super helpful. Thank you so much. I feel like this is one area where there really aren’t enough tutorials on writing scripts for various actions. Thank you so much for this. I would love to see more Airtable scripting videos. 🙏🏼

[@rupertxyz]

I make sure to keep them coming!

[@ocplan_dbo]

Thanks Rupert, you really manage to explain the process well.

[@rupertxyz]

Thank you!

[@bradlegassick9327]

Thank you, very helpful indeed. I wonder if you can do a video showing how to delete duplicate records? Thanks for focusing on scripting in Airtable as there aren't that many channels doing it!

[@rupertxyz]

Thank you! Yes, can definitely make a video about it and will post here as well :)

[@rupertxyz]

Please find the video about deleting duplicates here: ua-cam.com/video/JvSPjjo7uRw/v-deo.html

[@bradlegassick9327]

@@rupertxyz Thx mate awesome content! You are really helping us get a handle on Airtable scripting. There are not many resources. Thx

[@rupertxyz]

@@bradlegassick9327 let me know what else to cover in terms of scripting use cases!

[@acjnas]

Thank you. Very well explained. I would love to see the javascript approach to delete multiple records but outside of airtable scripts.

[@rupertxyz]

Thanks, Jonathan :) What do you mean by "outside of Airtable scripts"? Via API?

[@acjnas]

@@rupertxyz yes

[@rupertxyz]

@@acjnas Yes, I can create a video for that soon!

[@bryanwilkinson3433]

Super stupid question Rupert - but all of the functions you are using are available through the airtable api? Meaning I could run code similar to this on my own backend server and makes these requests to airtable remotely and not in the airtable itself?

[@rupertxyz]

Not stupid at all... So via REST API you're able to list, create, update, delete. You'll have to build logic outside of Airtable then and modify via API. The REST API is therefore completely different from the Scripting API. You'll find an overview here: www.airtable.com/developers

[@sovereignstaffinggroup9008]

as this is helpful, some of the prompts in this script are not read properly and I was unable to successfully follow you. Please update if you can.

[@rupertxyz]

Can you specify what exactly?