Airtable source connector - OAuth authentication problem

Connector Questions & Issues
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  • Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: No
  • OS Version / Instance: Ubuntu
  • Memory / Disk: 12 GBs / 30 GBs
  • Deployment: Docker
  • Airbyte Version: 0.40.26
  • Source name/version: Airtable/2.0.3
  • Destination name/version: Bigquery/1.2.14
  • Step: During sync
  • Description: I’ve tried to change the authentication to Airtable by using the OAuth, and it does work for two hours, but then I get a message
2023-03-02 09:30:15 source > {"error":{"type":"UNAUTHORIZED","message":"Invalid authentication token"}}
2023-03-02 09:30:15 source > 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://api.airtable.com/v0/meta/bases

This happened twice already, same pattern: I create a new refresh token, save the connection and execute it hourly, it works for two hours, and from the third hour on I receive this error message.

Furthermore, on the first time this happened, I’ve got this email

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But this didn’t happen in the second time. I’ve tried to go to the Integration’s panel, but nothing changed there

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Now, I don’t know if the problem is with Airbyte, and how this integration is being called, or with Airtable.

The steps I’ve followed to create the refresh-token:
1- On Airtable, created a new OAuth integration https://airtable.com/create/oauth called “Airbyte”
2- Added the following scopes data.records:read, data.recordComments:read and schema.bases:read
3- Executed this GET request to get the code using the client_id generated by the OAuth integration Airtable Web API
4- With the code received from the GET request above, executed a POST request as such Airtable Web API

With the information received from the POST request, added the following information in the Airbyte connector:

  • Client ID
  • access_token
  • Client secret
  • Refresh token
  • token_expiry_date (this one, I’ve chosen as “2 months”)

Full log uploaded
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Got the same issue!
I went back to 0.1.3 just because of that - the API Token version there works fine. But OAuth has to be fixed. Bumping this one up in hope someone will have an idea how to work around the issue. :wink: