I’m working on a project where I need to store some JSON data in my Airtable base. I’ve been looking through all the available field types but can’t seem to find one that’s specifically designed for storing JSON strings or metadata blobs.
I’m wondering if using the Attachment field type would work for this purpose, or if there’s a better approach I’m missing. Has anyone dealt with storing structured JSON data in Airtable before? What field type did you use and how did it work out?
I want to make sure I’m choosing the most efficient method for my use case. Any suggestions or experience with this would be really helpful.
totally agree with u! long text field is the way to go, especially for storing JSON. it’s simple and u can still work with it easily without the hassle of attachments. makes life so much easier when searching too!
I’ve been storing JSON in Airtable for a couple years - Long Text fields work great. There’s no native JSON type, but Long Text handles JSON strings fine and keeps everything structured. Best part? You can still search inside the JSON content, which you can’t do with attachments. I just stringify the objects before storing and parse them back in my apps. Never hit the 100k character limit either. Attachments might seem like they’d work, but they just make things more complicated when you need the data to be accessible and searchable.