OpenWeather

A BDK Book containing procedures to fetch real-time temperature data via the OpenWeather API.

Prerequisites

Learning the OpenWeather Book (BDK)

Before using the Book’s procedures in an automation, you must learn the Book by adding it to your agent. Follow the steps below to get started.

1. In the left navigation bar, click on Books.

2. Click on + New Book.

3. Search for the Book's name. Click on the version tagged with bdk.

Note: If the Book requires connectivity, you will be prompted to provide configuration details.

1. Click Add to finish adding your Book.

After learning a Book, publish your agent and create a new Playground. Previously created Playgrounds will not be able to recognize the new Book.

Connectivity

This Book supports the connectivity methods described in this section.

Connect using API Key

Authenticate to OpenWeather using the specified API key. You can obtain your own API key by visiting OpenWeather's website at https://openweathermap.org/appid.

Label	Description	Type
API Key	The API key to be used for connecting	text

Configuration

The following table details all the available configuration options for this book.

Concept	Description	Type	Default Value
timeout	Timeout in seconds when making API calls to OpenWeather	number	30

Configuration can be set or retrieved as shown in the following examples:

the department's Open Weather's timeout is 30