The moment it happens

Look up the weather for any city from a link

You send a city name or coordinates to a private link and get the current weather back by email.

Runs: The moment it happens
Apps: OpenWeatherMap
AI: Not needed
Access: API key

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: give me a link I can send a city name or latitude and longitude to, and email me the current temperature and conditions there.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A travel planner, a delivery dispatcher or a small business owner often needs weather for a place that is not home: a client site in another country, a drop-off point tomorrow, a venue for a weekend event. Looking it up means opening an app, typing the city, choosing the right one out of several with the same name, and copying the numbers into a message or a spreadsheet. If this happens twenty times a day, those minutes add up quickly.

You send a city name or latitude and longitude to your personal link from a chat bot, a form, a shortcut or a spreadsheet script. The current weather for that place is fetched from OpenWeatherMap, formatted into a short readable line and either emailed to you or returned straight back to whatever sent the request.

It also suits developers who want a simple weather lookup for their own app without managing an API key in client code.

What you get out of it

Answers in seconds for any place
A dispatcher can ask about a drop-off town and get temperature, wind and conditions back immediately, without opening a separate weather site or app. That makes planning routes, deliveries and site visits noticeably quicker for the whole team.
Other tools can ask on your behalf
A spreadsheet, a chat shortcut or a form can send a city to the link, so teammates get weather without learning anything new or holding an account of their own.
Coordinates avoid city name confusion
There is a Springfield in many states and a Cambridge in two countries. Sending exact latitude and longitude removes the doubt about which place you meant. Using exact coordinates is also the best option when a site is in a village or at a remote location.
Keys stay out of client code
The OpenWeatherMap key sits as a secret on ClickRuntime's side, so a shortcut or web page that calls the link never contains it, and it cannot be copied by anyone viewing the page.
Consistent format every time
Each reply follows the same layout, so staff can read results at a glance and paste them into reports without reformatting different app screenshots. That also makes it easy to log results in a sheet for later.

How it works

What happens, step by step

When you send a city name or map coordinates to your private ClickRuntime link, the automation starts.
It looks up the current weather for that place on OpenWeather.
You get an email with the temperature, conditions and what it feels like, for example "Lisbon: 22°C, scattered clouds".

Before it runs live

Connect OpenWeatherMap
Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings

What you get

RunsThe moment it happens

Look up the weather for any city from a linkjust nowSucceeded

Email · Weather in LisbonLisbon: 22°C, scattered clouds, feels like 22°C

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other OpenWeatherMap steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

weather_for_any_city_on_request.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_event, credentials, http, notify

@on_event
def handle(event):
    body = event.json or {}
    params = {"appid": credentials.secret("OPENWEATHER_API_KEY"), "units": "metric"}
    if body.get("city"):
        params["q"] = body["city"]
    else:
        params.update(lat=body["lat"], lon=body["lon"])
    w = http.get("https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather", params=params).json()
    text = f"{w['name']}: {w['main']['temp']:.0f}°C, {w['weather'][0]['description']}, feels like {w['main']['feels_like']:.0f}°C"
    notify.email_me(f"Weather in {w['name']}", text)
    return {"weather": text}

FAQ

Common questions

How should I send the city?

A city name such as Lisbon, PT works, as does latitude and longitude. Adding the country code avoids picking the wrong place when several cities share a name, and the reply states which place was matched.

Does it return the current weather or a forecast?

As described, it returns current conditions: temperature, feels-like, humidity, wind and a short description. A forecast for coming days is possible as an extra step if you need to plan ahead as well. Ask your AI assistant to add the extended forecast and it will show you the plan.

Can the answer come back directly to the caller?

Yes. When the sending tool waits for a response, the formatted weather can be returned right away as the reply. When it does not, the result is sent to you by email instead. Both options use the same lookup, so the numbers are identical either way.

What permissions does it need?

API key. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run for each event the app sends.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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