Accessing text field input from Airtable integration in WordPress

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I’m working on a WordPress site that uses Airtable to create form fields. I need to grab the value from an address field to use with the Zillow API. But I can’t figure out how to access the input. When I look at the page source, I only see the Airtable script. No regular input field.

Has anyone dealt with this before? I’m not sure if I need to use JavaScript to intercept the data or if there’s a way to tap into the Airtable integration directly.

My end goal is to take the address a user enters and fetch some additional info from Zillow to display on the page. But first I need to actually get that address text. Any tips or code examples would be super helpful. Thanks!

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In my experience, integrating Airtable with WordPress and accessing form data can be achieved by using Airtable’s JavaScript SDK. I faced a similar challenge and solved it by embedding the SDK on my WordPress page and setting up an event listener for form submissions. When the form is submitted, the script captures the address field value, which can then be used for the Zillow API call. It is important to ensure that the field names in your script match those in Airtable and to handle errors gracefully during this process.

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hey Liam, ive run into this before. airtable doesnt expose the fields directly in html. you’ll prob need to use javascript to hook into their events or api. check out their js library docs, theres usually a way to get field values after submit. good luck man!

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I’ve faced a similar challenge integrating Airtable with WordPress. The key is to leverage Airtable’s JavaScript API. Before the data is sent to Airtable, you can intercept it by setting up an event listener on the form submission. This gives you the opportunity to capture the address value from the Airtable field.

Here’s a rough code outline:

Airtable.init('YOUR_API_KEY');
var base = Airtable.base('YOUR_BASE_ID');

base('YOUR_TABLE_NAME').onSubmit(function(event) {
  var addressValue = event.fields['Address'];
  // Use addressValue with Zillow API here
});

This method allows you to grab the needed data before it’s processed further. Make sure you error-handle appropriately and adjust the script to fit your specific setup.