Air Quality in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Pull live air quality by the row. 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, "field", "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", "field", "pm2_5") 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", "field", "pm2_5")

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", "field", "pm2_5")

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 Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("airquality", "San Francisco", "field", "pm2_5") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Air Quality?

Air Quality returns pm2_5, pm10, recommendation and city — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Which Air Quality fields need a paid plan?

carbonMonoxide, ozone, nitrogenDioxide and sulfurdioxide, plus 2 more are included from the Starter plan up. On the Free plan the cell returns #PREMIUM(field) rather than a wrong or empty value, so it's always obvious which one to upgrade for. Every other field works on Free.

Can I fill a whole column of Air Quality at once?

Yes. Put your city values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Air Quality cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 5 credits. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

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

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

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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