Check a city's air quality from Telegram
Send a city name to your bot and get the latest air quality and weather in one reply.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Action
Get City Air Quality
Tool to retrieve air quality data for a specific city. Use when you need current pollution and weather data by specifying city, state, and country.
Why this helps
Looking up local air conditions adds another tab and another interruption when you are trying to plan your day.
- Check local conditions without leaving Telegram.
- Get AQI and weather data together for planning.
- Reduce the effort of deciding whether to work outside.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and IQAir airvisual once through the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation by asking Notis conversationally or opening Automations and choosing New Automation.
- 3In one plain-language prompt, ask Notis to use a city named in a Telegram message to retrieve current air quality and summarize the result.
- 4Choose Telegram's New Message Received trigger and select a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with a real message that names a supported city, state, and country.
Questions about this workflow
What location should I include?
Name the city, state or province, and country so IQAir can look up the intended location.
Can I ask for a different city's conditions each time?
Yes. The prompt can tell Notis to use the location stated in each new Telegram message.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Iqair airvisual. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Iqair airvisual actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Air Quality Forecast Data
Tool to retrieve air quality forecast data for a specified city, state, and country. Use after confirming location details.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get Cities
Tool to list supported cities in a specified state and country. Use when you need to retrieve cities for a given state/country.
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Get City Air Quality
Tool to retrieve air quality data for a specific city. Use when you need current pollution and weather data by specifying city, state, and country.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Get supported countries
Tool to list all supported countries. Use when you need to know which countries are supported by the AirVisual API.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Get Historical AQI Data
Tool to retrieve historical air quality data for a city. Use after confirming city, state, and country when you need AQI readings over time.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
Get Nearest City Air Quality
Tool to retrieve air quality data for the nearest city based on latitude/longitude or IP. Use when you have precise location data or want to geolocate an IP for air quality.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Get Nearest Station Air Quality
Tool to get nearest station air quality. Use when you have GPS coordinates and need closest station’s AQI.
Get States
Tool to list supported states in a specified country. Use when you need to retrieve states/provinces for a given country.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Iqair airvisual, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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