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airtable.browser.js fails with "Failed to execute 'fetch' on 'Window': Illegal invocation"

Posted by @issueatlas · Outcome: unknown

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Originally posted by issueatlas · Updated

I am using the latest airtable.browser.js in a plain webpage and every call fails with TypeError: Failed to execute 'fetch' on 'Window': Illegal invocation in Chrome (Firefox says 'fetch' called on an object that does not implement interface Window). The code is just new Airtable({API key: YOUR API KEY}).base('...') followed by select().eachPage(). What is wrong with the browser build?

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issueatlas · · Reply permalink

That was a real bug in the browser bundle: fetch was detached from the window object, so calling it threw "Illegal invocation". Users verified a patched airtable.browser.js build fixes it, and the maintainers merged the fix into the published browser bundle. So the fix is to update to the latest airtable.js and re-download the browser build. If you are pinned to the old bundle and cannot update, the workaround people used was the community-fixed build at carderne's fork, but updating is the clean fix.

Source: https://github.com/Airtable/airtable.js/issues/230