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Check city air quality from new Google Docs

Turn a fresh document into an immediate local air quality check.

Trigger

New Document Created

Triggers when a new Google Doc is created. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when new documents are detected. Uses timestamp filtering to efficiently poll for new documents.

Action

Get Air Quality by City

Tool to retrieve real-time air quality data for a specific city. use when you have a valid city name and need current aqi and pollutant levels.

Why this helps

New location briefs can sit without the environmental context needed for planning.

  • Get current AQI without leaving your document workflow
  • Surface pollutant levels for location decisions
  • Reduce manual lookups after creating briefs

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Google Docs and Ambee in Notis once.
  • 2Create an automation and describe that it should read the city in each new document and fetch current air quality.
  • 3Pick New Document Created as the trigger.
  • 4Choose where run reports should be delivered and test with one real document.

Questions about this workflow

What location does this use?

It uses a city name stated in the new Google Doc.

What does Ambee return?

It returns current air quality data and pollutant levels for the city.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Google Docs to Ambee. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Google Docs triggers

Ambee actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Get Air Quality by City

Tool to retrieve real-time air quality data for a specific city. use when you have a valid city name and need current aqi and pollutant levels.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Get Air Quality by Latitude and Longitude

Tool to retrieve real-time air quality data for a specific latitude and longitude. use when you need hyper-local air quality readings for given coordinates.

ActionInstant

New Document Created

Triggers when a new Google Doc is created. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when new documents are detected. Uses timestamp filtering to efficiently poll for new documents.

TriggerPolling

Get Air Quality Forecast by Latitude and Longitude

Tool to retrieve air quality forecast for a specific latitude and longitude. use when you need predicted air quality data up to 48 hours in advance based on geographic coordinates.

ActionInstant

Document Deleted

Triggers when an existing Google Doc is deleted (moved to trash). This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are trashed.

TriggerPolling

Get Wildfire Risk Forecast by Place

Tool to retrieve wildfire risk forecast for a specific place. use when you need weekly wildfire risk predictions for a location over the next four weeks.

ActionInstant

Document Placeholder Filled

Triggers when a Google Doc's plain text changes such that a configured placeholder token/pattern is no longer present (i.e., the document has been filled in). This trigger monitors a specific Google Doc and fires when a placeholder pattern that was previously present is no longer found in the document's plain text.

TriggerPolling

Geocode by Place

Tool to transform a place name or address into geographic coordinates. use after confirming the location name to get precise latitude and longitude.

ActionInstant

Document Search Update

Triggers when a Google Doc matching a user-defined search query is newly created or updated since the last poll. This trigger uses timestamp filtering to efficiently monitor documents.

TriggerPolling

Get Air Quality by City

Tool to retrieve real-time air quality data for a specific city. use after obtaining a valid city name when current aqi and pollutant levels are needed.

ActionInstant

Document Structure Changed

Triggers when a Google Doc's structure changes (headers/footers added/removed, tables/images count changes). This trigger monitors a specific document for structural changes like: - Headers added or removed - Footers added or removed - Tables added or removed - Images (inline objects) added or removed - Positioned objects added or removed - Footnotes added or removed

TriggerPolling

Get Air Quality by Country Code

Tool to retrieve real-time air quality data for a specific country using a 3-letter iso code. use after acquiring the country code and when you want a national overview of air quality.

ActionInstant

Document Updated

Triggers when an existing Google Doc is updated or modified. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are updated.

TriggerPolling

Get Air Quality by Latitude and Longitude

Tool to retrieve real-time air quality data for a specific latitude and longitude. use when you need hyper-local air quality readings for given coordinates.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Google Docs and Ambee, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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