--- title: "Connect Beamer to WeatherTotals - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Idea Comment\" fires in Beamer, your agent runs \"Get aurora forecast\" in WeatherTotals." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/beamer-to-weathertotals" --- # Connect Beamer to WeatherTotals When **New Idea Comment** fires in [Beamer](https://apiant.ai/connections/beamer), your agent runs **Get aurora forecast** in [WeatherTotals](https://apiant.ai/connections/weathertotals). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Beamer **2** triggers Beamer **6** actions WeatherTotals **6** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Beamer and WeatherTotals to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Beamer can start in WeatherTotals - When **New Idea Comment** in Beamer then **Get aurora forecast** in WeatherTotals - When **New Idea Vote** in Beamer then **Get city rainfall totals** in WeatherTotals Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Beamer and WeatherTotals ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 12 actions - Trigger **New Idea Comment** Triggers when a new comment is sent for an idea. - Trigger **New Idea Vote** Triggers when a new vote is sent for an idea. - Action **Create Idea** Creates a new Feedback idea. - Action **Create Idea Comment** Creates a new idea comment. - Action **Create Idea Vote** Creates a new idea vote. - Action **Create Post** Creates a new post. - Action **Get Post** Fetches a post by ID, with its per-language title and content, category, publication state, and engagement counts. An error occurs if the post is not found. Reading a post through this action does not count as a view in your Beamer analytics. - Action **List Posts** Returns all posts from your Beamer feed, each with its per-language title and content, category, publication state, and engagement counts. Reading posts through this action does not count as a view in your Beamer analytics. - Action **Get aurora forecast** Get the current aurora sighting verdict for every state, along with the required and current planetary Kp index and forecast peak. - Action **Get city rainfall totals** Get a single city's rain data: yesterday's official climate report, year to date versus normal, rain days, records, and monthly normals. - Action **Get city snowfall totals** Get a single city's snowfall data: season to date versus normal, snow days, biggest day, the day-by-day season, all-time records, and monthly normals. - Action **List snow season totals** Get season-to-date snowfall totals by state, including the highest measured city per state and the normal to date, in inches. - Action **List weekly hail reports** Get state-by-state hail reports for the last seven days, including the largest stone and the most recent 24 hours. - Action **List yesterday's weather reports** Get each tracked city's high and low from yesterday, the times recorded, departures from normal, records, and rain. ## Each app on its own - [ **Beamer** Beamer is an easy to use newsfeed and changelog for your website or app.](https://apiant.ai/connections/beamer) - [ **WeatherTotals** WeatherTotals publishes measured precipitation and sky-event totals for the United States.](https://apiant.ai/connections/weathertotals) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Beamer - [ **Beamer to ESPY** ESPY is a comprehensive tool for validating phone numbers, verifying customer identities, and leveraging API...](https://apiant.ai/connect/beamer-to-espy) - [ **Beamer to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/beamer-to-salesforce) - [ **Beamer to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from WeatherTotals to Beamer? WeatherTotals has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Beamer. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads WeatherTotals's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Beamer or WeatherTotals? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Beamer and WeatherTotals without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.