# Airtable base import: certificate error

**URL:** <https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092>\
**Category:** APIs\
**Created:** [September 25, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092 "2025-09-25T13:12:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![fietske](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fietske](https://community.nocodb.com/u/fietske)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092/1 "2025-09-25T13:12:05Z")

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Hi guys - new here.

When trying to import an existing Airtable base I get:

**”Error: unable to get local issuer certificate”**

not sure where to look to fix this.  
any help is appreciated

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**Author:** ![Navi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3be4f8/32.png) [@Navi](https://community.nocodb.com/u/Navi)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092/2 "2025-09-25T13:26:37Z")

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Is this on self-hosted or cloud. Did you try any other base or just the base?

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**Author:** ![fietske](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fietske](https://community.nocodb.com/u/fietske)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092/3 "2025-09-26T11:26:32Z")

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self-hosted. Just tried another base: same error.

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**Author:** ![dstala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@dstala](https://community.nocodb.com/u/dstala)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092/4 "2025-09-26T11:49:59Z")

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I tried it just & was able to import successfully with a read only Airtable access token. Please ensure that you are using PAT & that the base is shared.

Details here: [Import Airtable to NocoDB](https://nocodb.com/docs/product-docs/bases/import-base-from-airtable#create-personal-access-token)

My configurations –

Node: **v22.19.0**  
Arch: **arm64**  
Platform: **linux**  
Docker: **true**  
RootDB: **pg**  
PackageVersion: **0.264.9**

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**Author:** ![fietske](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fietske](https://community.nocodb.com/u/fietske)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092/5 "2025-09-26T13:10:48Z")

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Thanks for trying it yourself!

I did all that , yes using PAT and made the base publicly sharable, but still got the error Am on an M1 Mac, installed NoCoDB with homebrew.

See below

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/nocodb/original/1X/cf76254018a1252316766f535ce3c531d0d88e43.png)

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**Author:** ![Navi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3be4f8/32.png) [@Navi](https://community.nocodb.com/u/Navi)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092/6 "2025-09-26T13:16:47Z")

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Please use docker for serious usecases. Binary/Homebrew is for quick trials only.

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**Author:** ![fietske](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fietske](https://community.nocodb.com/u/fietske)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092/7 "2025-09-26T13:29:07Z")

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Thank you Navi. Have installed Nocodb with Docker now, but still get the same error.

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**Author:** ![fietske](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fietske](https://community.nocodb.com/u/fietske)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092/8 "2025-09-26T16:18:52Z")

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am starting to suspect Zscaler might have something to do with this

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**Author:** ![fietske](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fietske](https://community.nocodb.com/u/fietske)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.nocodb.com/t/airtable-base-import-certificate-error/2092/9 "2025-09-26T16:35:11Z")

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Problem fixed !

Turning off Zscaler (ZPA and ZIA) temporarily was the fix.