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The Run without writing to Airtable option lets you run an API request without creating or updating any records in your Airtable base. When enabled, Data Fetcher will send the API request normally, but the response will not be written to your destination table.

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When to use this

This setting is useful when the API request performs an action rather than returning data. Common examples include:
  • POST requests that send data from Airtable to another system
  • PATCH or PUT requests that update records in an external API
  • API endpoints that return no meaningful response data
In these cases, you may want Data Fetcher to execute the request but ignore the response.

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How to enable it

  1. Open your request in Data Fetcher.
  2. Open Advanced settings.
  3. Scroll down and enable Run without writing to Airtable.
  4. Confirm the warning dialog.
The request will still run and send the API request, but no records will be created or updated in Airtable.