Trouble Getting Variable into Curl Request to Airtable API with Shell Script action

[peternlewis]

First, read this:

Having trouble with quotes and shell variables

Quoting is always a pain in the neck. In order to understand it, you have to understand what happens at each level of the processing. Thankfully, in a script, Keyboard Maestro itself does not do any processing, so that is one less place for confusion. With shell commands, the important thing to understand is that, with only a few exceptional programs, it is not the command that does the processing, it is the shell (bash usually, although there are many shells). So it is the bash tool that s…

I presume the VarName variable is meant to have a JSON packet in it?

Where are the single quotes coming from? Because they are not in your curl line, and echo won't add them, so that makes me think they are in the VarName variable, which would not be valid JSON as far as I understand it.