Air Quality in Google Sheets & Excel — =VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco")

What this pulls

Pull live air quality by the row. =VERVE("airquality", A2) returns PM2.5, ozone and the AQI for any city, auto-refreshing — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 5 credits per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

airquality.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("airquality", A2, "pm2_5")

City

Pm2 5

Pm10

Recommendation

Carbon Monoxide

San Francisco

16.75

18.85

The air quality in San Francisco is good. …

387.85

click any cell to see its formula5 credits / cell

Ways to use it

Conditions per location

Put your cities in a column and fill =VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco") beside them — every row shows live conditions, so an ops or travel sheet reflects the real world, not last week.

Logistics & scheduling

Gate a plan on the weather: read the forecast into a cell and let an IF formula flag rows that need a backup date.

Auto-refreshing board

Set the sheet to refresh on a schedule and Air Quality keeps a status board current without anyone re-typing a thing.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("airquality", "San Francisco")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Pm2 5
=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "pm2_5")
Pm10
=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "pm10")
Carbon MonoxidePremium
=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "carbonMonoxide")
OzonePremium
=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "ozone")
Nitrogen DioxidePremium
=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "nitrogenDioxide")
SulfurdioxidePremium
=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "sulfurdioxide")
Us Epa IndexPremium
=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "usEpaIndex")
Gb Defra IndexPremium
=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "gbDefraIndex")
Recommendation
=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "recommendation")
City
=VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "city")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

Air Quality, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Air Quality into a spreadsheet?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in with your key, and type =VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco") into any cell. The same function works in Google Sheets and Excel — no scripts, no API wiring.

How many credits does each Air Quality cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 5 credits. Filling a column of ten rows costs ten times that; a cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a static sheet doesn't keep charging.

Can I fill a whole column at once?

Yes. Reference a range instead of a single cell — e.g. point Air Quality at A2:A50 — and it returns a value for every row in one call, or just drag =VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco") down like any spreadsheet function.

Does Air Quality work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes. It's the same =VERVE() function with the same arguments and the same key in both — build a sheet in one and it behaves identically in the other.

How current is the data?

Air Quality is served live from APIVerve's production data engine, and cells recalculate on the refresh cadence you choose — every open, hourly, or every 30 minutes.

Where does the data come from, and what shows on my bill?

VerveSheets runs on APIVerve, our production data engine; Air Quality is one of 300+ sources on the same key. Invoices and card statements show APIVERVE.

Air Quality

Conditions per location

Logistics & scheduling

Auto-refreshing board

Air Quality, answered

Put Air Quality in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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