Solcast Integration
Connect Solcast to Arahi's no-code AI developers and automate workflows in minutes.
About the Solcast integration
Solar resource assessment and forecasting data for irradiance and PV power, globally. With Arahi AI, you can connect Solcast to Abstract - IP Geolocation API, Algorithmia, Anthropic (Claude) and 1,500+ other apps using AI-powered workflows. No coding required — set up triggers, actions, and intelligent automation in minutes.
- Category
- AI & ML APIs
- Authentication
- keys
Solcast automation use cases
- Content generation from brief
- Generate drafts with Solcast from a content brief in Notion or Google Docs, no engineer in the loop.
- Inbound email classification
- Classify and route inbound emails with Solcast — support, sales, billing, or trash.
- Document summarization
- Summarize uploaded PDFs and docs with Solcast straight into the CRM or knowledge base.
- Sentiment-tagged CS routing
- Tag sentiment on every support ticket with Solcast and route negative ones to seniors first.
Solcast workflow examples
- Log solar forecasts to Google Sheets
Each morning, call Get PV Power Resource in Solcast for every site and append the 24-hour forecast as rows in a Google Sheets ops log.
Daily cron calls Solcast Get PV Power Resource and logs Sheets.
- Onboard new solar sites via Create PV Power Resource
When a Salesforce site record is marked Installed, call Create PV Power Resource in Solcast so the asset begins receiving forecast data.
Salesforce site Installed triggers Solcast Create PV Power Resource.
- Alert Slack on low irradiance forecast
Use Get Historic Radiation And Weather from Solcast to detect days below threshold and post a Slack warning to the operations channel.
Solcast Get Historic Radiation low reading posts Slack operations alert.
Solcast actions
- Get Historic Radiation And Weather
- Tool to get historical irradiance and weather estimated actuals for a requested location. Use when you need historical solar radiation and weather data from 2007-01-01 to 7 days ago, for up to 31 days at a time.
- Get PV Power Resource
- Tool to retrieve a specific PV power resource by its unique identifier. Use when you need to fetch complete resource configuration including capacity, orientation, tracking, and derating parameters.
- Get Resources PV Power Sites
- Tool to list PV power resources available to authenticated user. Use when you need to retrieve the list of PV power sites with optional filtering by entitlement level.
- Patch PV Power Resource
- Tool to partially update an existing PV power resource's technical specifications. Use when you need to modify specific resource configuration fields without replacing the entire resource.
- Create PV Power Resource
- Tool to create a new PV power resource for Advanced PV Power forecasting. Use when you need to add a new solar installation site with comprehensive technical specifications including capacity, orientation, tracking parameters, and derating factors.
- Update PV Power Resource
- Tool to update an existing PV power resource with comprehensive technical specifications for solar installation site modeling. Use when you need to modify resource configuration including capacity, orientation, tracking parameters, derating factors, and bifacial system settings.