How to Use Pabbly Connect for Daily Weather Updates in Google Slides

Learn how to automate daily weather updates in Google Slides using Pabbly Connect. Follow this step-by-step tutorial for seamless integration and updates. Develop expertise in application integration and learn how to design streamlined automation workflows using proven, simplified approaches.

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1. Setting Up Pabbly Connect for Daily Weather Updates

To start automating daily weather updates in Google Slides, you first need to access Pabbly Connect. Simply open your browser and visit the Pabbly Connect website. If you don’t have an account, sign up for free, which only takes a couple of minutes and provides you with 100 tasks free every month.

After logging into Pabbly Connect, navigate to the dashboard. Here, you can create a new workflow by clicking the ‘Create Workflow’ button. Name your workflow according to your objective, which in this case is to update Google Slides for daily weather updates. Select the appropriate folder where you want to save this workflow.

2. Configuring the Trigger in Pabbly Connect

The next step involves configuring the trigger in Pabbly Connect. You’ll want to automate this process to run daily. Click on the trigger application and select ‘Schedule by Pabbly’. This allows you to set the frequency of your workflow.

• Choose to run the workflow every day.
• Set the time for the workflow to trigger; for example, at 7 a.m. daily.

After setting these parameters, click on ‘Save’. This configuration ensures that every day at the specified time, your workflow will be triggered, allowing you to fetch the latest weather updates.

3. Connecting to the Weather API Using Pabbly Connect

After setting up the trigger, the next step involves connecting to the Weather API. In the action application, select ‘API by Pabbly’ to fetch daily weather updates. Choose ‘Execute API Request’ as your action event.

To connect to the Weather API, you will need your API key. Copy this key from your Weather API account. Next, paste the API key into the relevant field in Pabbly Connect. Specify the necessary parameters for your request, including your location (e.g., Bal) and the number of days for the forecast.

• Select the number of days for the weather forecast (typically 1).
• Set any other parameters as needed, such as alerts or air quality data.

Once you have configured these settings, click on ‘Save and Test’. This will allow you to verify that you are receiving the correct weather data from the API.

4. Updating Google Sheets with Weather Data via Pabbly Connect

With the weather data successfully fetched, the next step is to update your Google Sheets. In Pabbly Connect, select Google Sheets as your action application and choose ‘Update Row’ as the action event. Connect your Google Sheets account by clicking on ‘Add New Connection’ and authorize Pabbly to access your Google Sheets.

Once connected, select the specific spreadsheet and row index you want to update. In your Google Sheet, identify the row that corresponds to the weather data you wish to update. In this case, it might be the second row where you store the maximum and minimum temperatures.

Map the maximum temperature and minimum temperature fields to the corresponding data fetched from the Weather API. Click ‘Save and Test’ to ensure the row updates correctly.

After testing, you should see the updated temperature values reflected in your Google Sheets, confirming that the integration is functioning as expected.

5. Refreshing Google Slides Automatically with Pabbly Connect

The final step is to ensure that your Google Slides presentation reflects the updated weather data. In Pabbly Connect, add another action step and select Google Slides as your application. Choose the action event ‘Refresh Chart’. This will allow your Google Slides to automatically update whenever the data in your Google Sheets changes.

Connect your Google Slides account in the same manner as you did with Google Sheets, allowing Pabbly Connect to access your slides. Select the specific presentation and chart object ID that corresponds to your weather data chart.

Ensure you have the correct template presentation selected. Click ‘Save and Test’ to confirm that the chart refreshes successfully.

Upon successful testing, your Google Slides will now automatically refresh every day with the latest weather updates from your Google Sheets, completing the automation process.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we explored how to use Pabbly Connect to automate daily weather updates in Google Slides. By integrating the Weather API with Google Sheets and Google Slides, you can ensure that your presentations are always up to date with the latest information.

Utilizing Pabbly Connect streamlines the entire process, making it easy to manage and display daily weather forecasts automatically. This setup saves time and enhances the accuracy of your presentations.