Airtable image queue for design teams

Turn an Airtable table into a batch image queue for a design or marketing team. This is a pure code workflow — every step is deterministic. Do not add reasoning steps.

Trigger: poll Airtable for new records in the Image Requests table (event type new_record). The table has columns for the prompt text, model choice, aspect ratio, style notes, status, error message, and the finished Drive URL.

For each new record, first check whether the Drive URL column is already filled — if so, skip the row so a re-poll never regenerates an image that already exists. Otherwise, read the prompt text and options (model, aspect ratio, style notes) off the row.

Call fal.ai Generate Image with FLUX.1 [dev], passing the prompt and options from the row. The result is a direct image URL on v3.fal.media that is reachable without extra auth.

Fetch the image bytes from the fal.ai URL and upload them to the shared Google Drive folder using Upload File (Multipart). Name the file after the Airtable record so it is easy to trace back. The 5MB multipart limit is comfortable for FLUX.1 [dev] output.

Finish by calling Airtable Update Record on the same row: PATCH the Drive file URL into the image URL column and set the status to Done. Only update those fields.

Error handling: if fal.ai returns a 422 (prompt validation failed), catch it, set the row status to Failed, and write the exact fal.ai error message into the error column so the requester can see why. Do not retry a 422. Let all other errors bubble up so the platform surfaces them.