diff --git a/.github/workflows/airtable_to_json.yml b/.github/workflows/airtable_to_json.yml
index 9720ecca6..ea8f499dc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/airtable_to_json.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/airtable_to_json.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ jobs:
           
       - name: Install dependencies
         run:
+          pip install pyairtable
           pip install airtable-python-wrapper
           pip install boto3
 
diff --git a/ersilia/_static_version.py b/ersilia/_static_version.py
index 89eeb1746..f00373dda 100644
--- a/ersilia/_static_version.py
+++ b/ersilia/_static_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-version = "0.1.33"
+version = "0.1.34"
diff --git a/ersilia/db/hubdata/interfaces.py b/ersilia/db/hubdata/interfaces.py
index d8fb0976e..bbd0dbbd8 100644
--- a/ersilia/db/hubdata/interfaces.py
+++ b/ersilia/db/hubdata/interfaces.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import requests
-from pyairtable import Table
+import importlib
 from ... import ErsiliaBase
 from ...default import AIRTABLE_MODEL_HUB_BASE_ID, AIRTABLE_MODEL_HUB_TABLE_NAME
+from ...setup.requirements.pyairtable import PyAirtableRequirement
 
 AIRTABLE_MAX_ROWS = 100000
 AIRTABLE_PAGE_SIZE = 100
@@ -16,7 +17,15 @@ def __init__(self, config_json):
         self.max_rows = AIRTABLE_MAX_ROWS
         self.page_size = AIRTABLE_PAGE_SIZE
         self.write_api_key = None
-        self.table = Table(self.api_key, self.base_id, self.table_name)
+        self.table = self._create_table()
+
+    def _create_table(self):
+        pyairtable_req = PyAirtableRequirement()
+        if not pyairtable_req.is_installed():
+            self.logger.debug("Installing PyAirTable from pip")
+            pyairtable_req.install()
+        pyairtable = importlib.import_module("pyairtable")
+        return pyairtable.Table(self.api_key, self.base_id, self.table_name)
 
     @staticmethod
     def _get_read_only_airtable_api_key():
diff --git a/ersilia/setup/requirements/isaura.py b/ersilia/setup/requirements/isaura.py
index 4518d2dca..ba2337835 100644
--- a/ersilia/setup/requirements/isaura.py
+++ b/ersilia/setup/requirements/isaura.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import importlib
 from ...utils.terminal import run_command
 
-
+# TODO
 class IsauraRequirement(object):
     def __init__(self):
         self.name = "isaura"
diff --git a/ersilia/setup/requirements/pyairtable.py b/ersilia/setup/requirements/pyairtable.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cca83530c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ersilia/setup/requirements/pyairtable.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import importlib
+import sys
+from ...utils.terminal import run_command
+
+class PyAirtableRequirement:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.name = "pyairtable"
+
+    def is_installed(self):
+        try:
+            importlib.import_module(self.name)
+            return True
+        except:
+            return False
+
+    def install(self):
+        version = '<2' if sys.version_info.minor == 7 else '<3'
+        run_command(f"python -m pip install 'pyairtable{version}'")
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f7cb10655..c22b7102a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "ersilia"
-version = "0.1.33"
+version = "0.1.34"
 description = "A hub of AI/ML models for open source drug discovery and global health"
 license = "GPLv3"
 authors = ["Ersilia Open Source Initiative <hello@ersilia.io>"]
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@ pandas = [
 ]
 h5py = "^3.7.0" # For compatibility with isaura
 loguru = "^0.6.0" # For compatibility with isaura
-pyairtable = [
-    {version="<2", python="3.7.*"},
-    {version="<3", python=">=3.8"},
-]
 PyYAML = "^6.0.1"
 dockerfile-parse = "^2.0.1"
 tqdm = "^4.66.1"