Airtable Universe Scraper

Scrape templates from Airtable Universe — the public gallery of community-shared Airtable bases. Browse all featured templates, filter by any of 21 categories, or fetch specific template pages by URL.

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What you can do

Task	How
Browse featured templates	Use browse mode
Get all templates in a category	Use byCategory mode + pick a category
Fetch specific templates by URL	Use byTemplateUrls mode
Discover new community bases	Run periodically and compare datasets

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Input fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	Select	Yes	browse, byCategory, or byTemplateUrls
category	Select	When mode=byCategory	Category slug (21 options available)
startUrls	Array	When mode=byTemplateUrls	Direct Airtable Universe template URLs
maxItems	Integer (1–2000)	No	Maximum number of results (default 50)

Available categories

Slug	Label
arts-and-culture	Arts and culture
community-mobilization	Community mobilization
creative-production	Creative production
education	Education
entrepreneurship	Entrepreneurship
fashion-and-style	Fashion and style
food-and-drink	Food and drink
government-and-politics	Government and politics
health-and-self-improvement	Health and self-improvement
journalism-and-publishing	Journalism and publishing
local-interest	Local interest
marketing-and-sales	Marketing and sales
nonprofits-and-volunteering	Nonprofits and volunteering
operations	Operations
product-design-and-ux	Product, design, and UX
products-and-consumer-reviews	Products and consumer reviews
professional	Professional
real-estate	Real estate
science-and-technology	Science and technology
sports-and-games	Sports and games
travel-and-outdoors	Travel and outdoors

Example inputs

Browse by category:

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "category": "marketing-and-sales",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Fetch specific templates:

{
  "mode": "byTemplateUrls",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.airtable.com/universe/exp7URG8Y71wUM664/sandwich-projects",
    "https://www.airtable.com/universe/expjml1W9xXTVEQY0/festrunner"
  ]
}

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Output fields

Field	Type	Description
applicationId	String	Unique Airtable Universe app ID (e.g. expXXXXXXXXX)
slug	String	URL slug for the template
title	String	Template title
description	String	Template description
authorName	String	Creator name
authorProfileUrl	String	URL to the author's Universe profile
category	String	Category slug this template was found in
tags	Array	Tags/category slugs from the template page
relativeDate	String	Relative publish date (e.g. "7 years ago")
copiedCount	Integer	Number of times this template was copied (detail pages)
coverUrl	String	Cover/thumbnail image URL
authorAvatarUrl	String	Author's avatar image URL
templateUrl	String	Full URL to the template page
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp when scraped

Example output record

{
  "applicationId": "expjml1W9xXTVEQY0",
  "slug": "festrunner",
  "title": "FestRunner (Original, Retired)",
  "description": "FestRunner is a database that will help you organize many aspects of a film festival...",
  "authorName": "Jon Gann/Reel Plan",
  "authorProfileUrl": "https://www.airtable.com/universe/creator/usrq2cqcb8aYph9pV/jon-gann",
  "category": "arts-and-culture",
  "relativeDate": "7 years ago",
  "coverUrl": "https://dl.airtable.com/exploreCoverImages%2FXbsGzD8LT1KKboxa0NHN_jake-hills-194864.jpg",
  "authorAvatarUrl": "https://dl.airtable.com/profilePics%2FBmWXtEZOSvmUao8XXRGB_Jon_0714_BSM.jpg",
  "templateUrl": "https://www.airtable.com/universe/expjml1W9xXTVEQY0/festrunner",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-20T10:00:00+00:00"
}

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need an Airtable account? No. Airtable Universe is a public gallery accessible without login. No credentials required.

How many templates can I scrape? Each category can have hundreds of templates. Set maxItems up to 2000. The byCategory mode loads all templates for a category at once.

What is the copiedCount field? How many times the template was duplicated by other users. Only available in byTemplateUrls mode (detail page).

Can I get templates from all categories at once? Yes — use browse mode. It iterates all 21 categories and deduplicates by applicationId.

The relativeDate is "7 years ago". Can I get exact dates? Airtable Universe only shows relative dates on listing pages. Exact timestamps are not exposed on the public site.

How do I find a template URL? Navigate to any template on airtable.com/universe and copy the URL from your browser.

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Data source

This actor scrapes airtable.com/universe — Airtable's publicly accessible community template gallery. No authentication is required.

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Limitations

• Exact creation dates not available (only relative, e.g. "7 years ago")
• copiedCount only populated in byTemplateUrls mode (requires individual detail page visit)
• Airtable's exploreApplications REST API requires authentication; this actor uses DOM-based extraction