{"id":110742,"date":"2016-07-09T01:59:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T08:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/customapi-walkthrough\/"},"modified":"2016-07-09T01:59:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T08:59:12","slug":"customapi-walkthrough","status":"publish","type":"power-automate","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/customapi-walkthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Receive personalized weather updates using a Custom API"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Using a simple weather Custom API with flows<\/h2>\n<p>In this blog post, we are going to show you how to create a simple Custom API and use it in your flow. At the end of this walkthrough \u2013 you will have some understanding of, how to create a\u00a0weather custom API and create a flow that sends you weather updates every morning.<br \/>\nTo start off, you will need to acquire an API key from <a href=\"https:\/\/apixu.com\">https:\/\/apixu.com<\/a>, they are nice weather API provider who let you test their APIs for free. You will then need to <a href=\"https:\/\/procsi.blob.core.windows.net\/blog-images\/Weather.json\">download the Swagger file<\/a> that describe the weather APIs.<br \/>\nOnce you have\u00a0downloaded and saved your swagger, proceed to upload it to Flow. You can access the custom API create UI from the accounts menu. Click \u201c<em><strong>New custom API<\/strong><\/em>\u201d and fill in the necessary details. Upload the Swagger API definition along with an icon to identify the API.<br \/>\nOnce you have successfully created the custom API, create a connection for it by clicking on the <strong>\u201c+\u201d <\/strong>button.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Weather_0.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You can then setup a flow as shown to send yourself weather updates as push notifications. 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