You can enhance the efficiency and productivity of an API workflow by incorporating task scheduling and automation. This can be accomplished by using monitors with Postman Flows. This tutorial shows how to create a monitor and a Flow to get weather information for a specified ZIP Code and automatically share it on a Twitter account.
You can see this tutorial's completed Flow here.
Create a monitor and a Flow to get the high and low temperature forecasts for a given ZIP code and post them to a Twitter account daily.
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.Begin by forking (copying) the Weather Application for Postman Flows Tutorial, the Twitter API v2 collection and the Twitter API v2 environment to your workspace.
Create a Flow and add a Send Request block.
Connect a second Send Request block to the first and select Weather Application for Postman Flows Tutorial > get current weather. The block automatically selects the Twitter API v2 environment.
lat
variable, enter body.results.0.latitude
.long
variable, enter body.results.0.longitude
.timezone
variable, enter body.results.0.timezone
.Connect a Template block to the second Send Request block's Success output and enter The weather in your ZIP Code will include a high of {{high}} degrees and a low of {{low}} degrees.
key
to high
and enter the path body.daily.temperature_2m_max.0
.value2
to low
and enter the body.daily.temperature_2m_min.0
path.Connect the Template block's Data output to a Send Request block.
tweet
input.In the sidebar, under Applications, select Webhook > Publish and copy the Flow's webhook URL.
Scheduled Flow
.Scheduled Flow Monitor
and enter the following information:
Scheduled Flow
.Week timer
, Every day
, 8:00 AM
.Last modified: 2023/08/07
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