airtable_meta.py

from airtable import Airtable

class AirtableMeta:
    """
    The AirtableMeta class provides access to the Airtable base schema API:
    
        https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/get-base-schema
    
    It's totally a hack: The base schema API ("/v0/meta/bases/{baseId}/tables")
    doesn't live under the Airtable class's base_url ("/v0/{baseId}"), so we
    create an Airtable instance, modify its base_url, then hijack the "mangled"
    private __request() method (_Airtable__request) to make requests.
    """
    def __init__(self, base_id: str, api_key: str):
        self.airtable = Airtable(base_id, api_key, dict_class=dict)
        self.base_id = base_id
        self.airtable.base_url = (
            f"https://api.airtable.com/v0/meta/bases/{base_id}"
        )

    @property
    def tables(self):
        return self.request("tables").get("tables", [])

    @property
    def tables_by_name(self):
        return dict((table["name"], table) for table in self.tables)

    def table(self, name):
        return self.tables_by_name.get(name, None)

    def request(self, uri, method="GET", **kwargs):
        return self.airtable._Airtable__request(method, uri, **kwargs)