(Please note that there many ways to create this same list in Excel so feel free to use your favorite technique) Click into a new cell and insert the following function.įor our example it looks like the following: To do this we will use the TEXTJOIN function in Excel. Please note that the query has to have a list that is delimited by the pipe “|” symbol. We want our list of city cells to be in a single string such as “Chicago, IL|Reston, VA|New York, NY”. The first step is to concatenate the list into a string that can be inserted into the URL. Now it is our job to make sure this list can be insert into the query so that we can retrieve multiple locations dynamically. However, if you prefer you can also use your own literal range definitions of cells such as “b2:b6”. This range is now defined and can be accessed from anywhere simply by referencing RAWLIST. We will name our table “RAWLIST” for now. The easiest is to Right-click on the locations selection and use the “Define Name” option. Select the list of Cities (without the header) and create a defined table name for this area. Please note that we put a header “MY LOCATIONS” but this is not necessary and should not be in the data table we define. To build this area simply type in the cells as seen below. This is just an area of cells with no real definition for now but will serve as our data entry area so that our users can simply update this list to get weather for these locations. The first step is to insert some blank rows at the top of the page and enter in a list of 5 locations. This is the step where the other document ends but here we will begin to use parameters to customize this query. Next we load it into Excel by visiting the “Data” tab, selecting the “From Web” option and pasting in our URL String copied from the Visual Crossing Weather Data Query Builder above.Ĭlick ‘OK’ and ask to Load the data which will give us the following working query: First we will get our Query String copied by click on the ‘Copy full query’ button to put the string in our system copy/paste buffer: Once you have a successful forecast data query, click on the ‘Query API’ button to see our query string. Follow along with steps from link found in number 1 above which uses the following page: The Initial Query Stringįirst let’s repeat what we have done in previous queries and visit the Visual Crossing Query Builder page and build a simple one-location query for Forecast data and load it into Excel. In this document we will focus on this option. Users will want to pass in locations, lists of locations, dates and other parameters. How to automaticall refresh weather data in Microsoft Excelģ) Dynamically pass in data to replace parameters in the API Query string based upon Excel data. So while the URL Query doesn’t change, the users will add a refresh option either manually or on load of the spreadsheet. Loading Weather Data into Excel via Web Query URLĢ) A variation on the fixed query load is the 15-day forecast query which is dynamically always showing the next 15 days from “today”. There are three primary Excel use cases for Weather Data.ġ) Load a fixed query set of data into a table and reference that table for further analysis. In other documents we have show you how to use the Visual Crossing Weather Data Services capability to do Query API loading of weather data directly into Excel.
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