Flatten JSON for Airtable Automations

🧩 Problem

Airtable scripts and automations choke on nested JSON objects. When malformed or unstructured data hits routers, filters, or API connectors, entire automations halt or silently drop records. Teams end up retrying runs, hand-editing payloads, and explaining delays to customers.

💡 Why This Happens

Airtable prefers flat key/value pairs for updates. Most automation platforms assume well-formed payloads and do minimal validation. AI models, third-party APIs, and changing vendor schemas drift over time, mixing encodings, formats, and unexpected fields that downstream steps cannot tolerate.

🚀 The Fix: JSON Flatten (API Endpoint)

Use this endpoint to solve the problem reliably inside Airtable, Zapier, Make.com, n8n.

Endpoint

POST https://api.postthatgetthis.com/json/flatten

Example Input

{ "user": { "name": "Sam", "plan": "pro" } }

Example Output

{ "user.name": "Sam", "user.plan": "pro" }

📦 What This Solves

• Flat keys for Airtable
• No scripting required
• Great for updates and inserts

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🔗 Related Use Cases

• Extract JSON Fields
• Fix Malformed JSON

👉 Try it now

Use this endpoint directly in your automation tool. POST → get cleaned, structured data. Every time.