Keep beach conditions in a shareable Drive brief
Request a beach check and save the useful details as a document you can find later.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Create a File from Text
Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.
Why this helps
Beach details are easy to lose between searches, messages, and plans.
- Keep conditions, scores, and amenities together
- Make a reusable record of a beach check
- Reduce the need to revisit search results
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Beach Day API and Google Drive once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
- 3Tell Notis to summarize the requested beach's available conditions, score, and amenities in a Drive document.
- 4Pick the webhook trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real beach lookup.
Questions about this workflow
What starts this automation?
An HTTP request to its Notis webhook starts it. Beach Day API does not provide trigger events.
What goes into the document?
Notis can summarize details returned by the lookup, such as conditions, scores, and amenities. It should leave unavailable details out.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Beach Day API to Google Drive. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Beach Day API triggers
Google Drive actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Add file sharing preference
Modifies sharing permissions for an existing google drive file, granting a specified role to a user, group, domain, or 'anyone'.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Copy file
Duplicates an existing file in google drive, identified by its `file id`.
Create Comment
Tool to create a comment on a file. use when you need to add a new comment to a specific file in google drive.
Create Shared Drive
Tool to create a new shared drive. use when you need to programmatically create a new shared drive for collaboration or storage.
Create File or Folder
Creates a new file or folder with metadata. use to create empty files or folders, or files with content by providing it in the request body (though this action primarily focuses on metadata creation).
Create a File from Text
Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.
Create a folder
Creates a new folder in google drive, optionally within a parent folder specified by its id or name; if a parent name is provided but not found, the action will fail.
Create Reply
Tool to create a reply to a comment in google drive. use when you need to respond to an existing comment on a file.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Beach Day API and Google Drive, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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