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Connecting with openweather

The goal of this document​

Here, we are going to connect the vendor called openweathermap to the Airbyte then it will redirect the data using the destination of MySQL, User can choose the format of the destination as required, For example from MySQL/ PostgreSQL, etc.

Useful Resources of Airbyte​

Requirements to get the ‘OpenWeather’ source​

• User should have an account on https://openweathermap.org/, if not then signup from the below link: https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_in

• User should have the Personal Access Token of openweathermap.org

Steps to Fetch the Personal API Token from Asana.com​

  1. To getch the Access Token of openweathermap.org, you should go to https://home.openweathermap.org/
  2. You need to login with your credentials.

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  1. After login, fetch the API key from the top-rigth corner of the username, click on the username and find the My API keys page.

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  1. Here you will see the default created APi key.

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  1. if you want to create your own key then add your API key name in the textbox and click on the Generate key button, as shown in the figure below:

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  1. Once you click on Generate button the APi key gets added in the list of API's.

Steps to Connect Asana.com with OPNBI​

  1. Go to the Airbyte using the below link: https://airbyte.com/

  2. The Airbyte landing screen looks like below:

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  1. Here We have 3 options on the left, which contain Connections, Sources, and Destination. As per continuing the steps click on the Sources option.

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  1. To add the Monday.com source, click on the New Source button from the Top-right corner.

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  1. To add Any of the sources here, the user needs to add the properties which are needed from the Airbyte, every source has its own individual properties.

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Note: Here every source demands a different type of property, where Client DI, Client Secret, and Refresh Tokens are common in most sources. on that we can say, all the sources are different from each other.

  1. Set up source Form overview:
  • Name: Users can add the name of the source as per their requirements.
  • Source Type: The user has to select the source type from the provided list by airbyte.
  • Latitude: The user can add the Latitude of any location as per required.
  • Longitude: The user can add the Longitude of any location as per required.
  • Language: You can add the labgauage code here, the Airbyte has the list of example codes like "en,fr,pt_br,uk,zh_cn,zh_tw".
  • App ID: The App ID stends for the API key of the OpenWeatherORG.
  • Units: The user can apply the units from given list, as Standard, Metric and Imperial units.

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  1. Now, set up the source here,
  • Add the name as openWeather as source title,
  • Select OpenWeather from the source type,
  • Add Latitude and Longitude in the form, you can choose any of the location you required for the Latitude and Longitude.
  • Add Language code in language textbox.
  • Add API Key in APP DI.
  • Select Units from the available dropdown.
  • Validate your form with as shown in the figure below:

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• Now click on Set up Connection, it will test the connection here, then it will redirect to add destination of the source, as per figure below:

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  1. After testing the connection successfully add the destination here.

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Here, on the source adding screen,

  • The top-menu bar shows two buttons where 1. for Overview of the source and 2. for the settings of the source.
  • Overview: The overview screen shows the details related to the source; it may be empty as per the above screen.
  • Settings: From settings, the user can edit the form details of the added source.
  • Add destination button leads us to the destination page from this source page.
  1. Click on the Destination from the Top-right corner, as shown in the figure below:
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It’s will show the available destinations, here user can add the new destination as per required.

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To know more about adding the required destination in Airbyte go to the Destination

  1. Click on the MySQL Training here. it may take some time to fetch the stream names, as shown in figure below:

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  1. After loading all the Streams form the Vendor’s to the destination, the destination page looks as shown in the figure below:

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  1. After loading all the data streams user need to add Sync frequency and Table Prifix, as shown in the figure below:
  • Add Sync Frequency: Every Hour
  • Add Table Prefix: openWeather_
  • As shown in the figure below:

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• When the user add the prefix, it gets added on Destination stream name automatically, as shown in the figure below:

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  1. At the bottom of the destination page, we have two radio buttons, which contain the Normalization option. Keep the Basic Normalization selected.

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  1. Now, click on the setup connection button to complete the connection. it will test the connection again which may take some time.

  2. Now, to validate the data is synced by the Airbyte, Go to the Connection from the Left menu bar of the screen:

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  1. Find the Added connection of the Asana from the list,

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Here, the Data isn’t synced yet, for that it shows the icon of non-sync at the start of the row. click on the row to see the details.

  1. Here the Asana connection page will show the Status of the data sync and sync history.

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  1. The title of the Source and destination name.
  2. Status and settings page top menu bar.
  3. Enable button: from this button, the user can enable/disable the source from the destination.
  4. Reset your data and Sync button: the user can reset their data and only sync the updated data from the vendor.
  1. Click on the sync button to sync the data manually, after clicking on the sync button it will start the process which will indicate the status under the history grid as shown in the figure below:
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Once it gets completed it will indicate as the Succeeded under the history, as it will also indicate the size of data records number and time of sync. Here we have added the sync time as every hour, on that the Airbyte will sync the data in every hour automatically which will be shown as the figure below:

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