--- title: "Connect PaintScout to National Weather Service - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Contact Created\" fires in PaintScout, your agent runs \"Find alerts by criteria\" in National Weather Service." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-national-weather-service" --- # Connect PaintScout to National Weather Service When **Contact Created** fires in [PaintScout](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout), your agent runs **Find alerts by criteria** in [National Weather Service](https://apiant.ai/connections/national-weather-service). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. PaintScout **5** triggers PaintScout **19** actions National Weather Service **10** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want PaintScout and National Weather Service 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 PaintScout can start in National Weather Service - When **Contact Created** in PaintScout then **Find alerts by criteria** in National Weather Service - When **Invoice Status Changed** in PaintScout then **Get alert** in National Weather Service 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 PaintScout and National Weather Service ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 29 actions - Trigger **Contact Created** Triggers when a new contact is created in PaintScout. - Trigger **Invoice Sent** Triggers when an invoice is sent to a customer, including when an invoice is re-sent. - Trigger **Invoice Status Changed** Triggers when an invoice's status changes, delivering the invoice with its new status. - Trigger **Quote Status Changed** Triggers when a quote's status changes, for example when it is sent, accepted or declined. - Trigger **Quote Tag Added** Triggers when a tag is added to a quote, optionally only for one specific tag. - Action **Add company** Creates a new company in PaintScout with its name, contact details, address, lead source, owner and tags. - Action **Add deal** Creates a new deal in PaintScout, with its contact, job address, pipeline stage and value. - Action **Add note** Adds a note to a PaintScout contact, deal or company and returns the new note. - Action **Add task** Creates a task in PaintScout, optionally linked to a deal and assigned to a user. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact in PaintScout with names, email, phone numbers, address, lead source, owner, note and tags. - Action **Create Quote** Creates a new quote in PaintScout for a contact, with its job address, notes, pricing adjustments and tags. - Action **Find companies** Returns the companies that match a search filter, such as a name, email or city. - Action **Find Contact** Returns up to 100 contacts that match the search you specify, such as an email address, name or company. - Action **Find deals** Returns the deals that match a search filter, such as a deal name, pipeline, stage or lead source. - Action **Find Invoice** Returns the invoices that match a search, such as a status, invoice number, contact name or date range. - Action **Find Quote** Returns the quotes that match a search filter, such as a quote number, status or contact name. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single PaintScout contact by its ID, including name, company, email, phone, address, lead source, owner and tags. - Action **Get deal** Returns a single PaintScout deal by its ID, including its contact, job address, pipeline stage, value, tags, linked quotes and invoices, and job costing. - Action **Get invoice** Returns a single PaintScout invoice with its contact, line items, payments, taxes, discounts and totals. Can optionally return the work-order view, which includes per-item material costs. - Action **Get quote** Returns a single PaintScout quote by its ID, including contact, job address, totals, tax, discount, payments, tags and customer-view links. - Action **Update company** Updates an existing PaintScout company's name, contact details, address, lead source, owner or tags. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing PaintScout contact's name, contact details, address, lead source, owner, note and tags. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update deal** Updates an existing deal in PaintScout — its name, contact, job address, pipeline and stage, lead source, owner, tags and job costing. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update task** Updates an existing task in PaintScout, such as its title, owner, notes, start time or completion status. - Action **Find alerts by criteria** Returns weather alerts (current and past) matching the criteria you choose, such as area, zone, point, event, severity, urgency and time window. - Action **Get alert** Returns a single National Weather Service alert by its identifier, including its event, severity, affected area, timing and description. - Action **Get forecast** Returns the multi-day textual forecast (day and night periods) for a National Weather Service 2.5 km forecast grid square. - Action **Get hourly forecast** Returns the hour-by-hour forecast for a National Weather Service 2.5km forecast grid area, including temperature, dewpoint, humidity, wind and precipitation chance. - Action **Get latest station observation** Returns the most recent weather observation (temperature, wind, humidity, pressure and more) reported by an NWS observation station. - Action **Get point metadata** Returns National Weather Service metadata for a latitude/longitude point: its forecast office, grid coordinates, forecast links, zones, time zone and nearest city. - Action **Get zone forecast** Returns the current text forecast for a National Weather Service public forecast zone, broken into named periods such as "Tonight" and "Tuesday". - Action **List active alerts** Returns all currently active National Weather Service alerts, optionally filtered by area, zone, point, event, severity, urgency and more. - Action **List stations** Returns NWS observation stations, optionally filtered by station ID or state/marine area. - Action **List zones** Returns National Weather Service forecast, county, fire and marine zones, optionally filtered by zone ID, state or marine area, region, zone type or a location point. ## Each app on its own - [ **PaintScout** PaintScout helps estimate & sell painting jobs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout) - [ **National Weather Service** REST API providing US weather forecasts, alerts, observations, and radar data by location.](https://apiant.ai/connections/national-weather-service) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from PaintScout - [ **PaintScout to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-salesforce) - [ **PaintScout to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in National Weather Service when something happens in PaintScout? Any of National Weather Service's 10 actions, including Find alerts by criteria, Get alert, Get forecast and Get hourly forecast. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from National Weather Service to PaintScout? National Weather Service has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in PaintScout. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads National Weather Service's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for PaintScout or National Weather Service? 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 PaintScout and National Weather Service 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.