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Open Airtable links from Slack in the Airtable app

A Airtable link shared in Slack opens in the browser, and you have to click through to get to the app. Alpaca is a free Slack bot that notices Airtable links in your channels and direct messages and replies with a link that opens the bases, tables and views straight in the Airtable desktop app, bypassing the browser.

How it works

Someone posts a Airtable link in Slack:https://airtable.com/appA1b2C3d4E5f6G7/tblH8i9J0k1L2m3N4Alpaca replies with:airtable://airtable.com/appA1b2C3d4E5f6G7/tblH8i9J0k1L2m3N4

Click the reply (if your workspace allows it) or copy it to the clipboard and paste it into the address bar: the Airtable desktop app opens directly. The Airtable app must be installed on your computer.

Get started

  1. Add Alpaca to your Slack workspace. It is free, with no account or paid plan.
  2. Invite it to a channel with /invite @Alpaca, or write to Alpaca in a direct message.
  3. Share any Airtable link and Alpaca replies with the desktop-app link.
Add to Slack

More details are in the guide on how to use Alpaca.

Other apps Alpaca supports