My Workflow

This workflow sends a daily weather email report using Gmail, Cron and AccuWeather API for a particular city.

create node.js script
import nodemailer to send email with Gmail SMTP server npm install nodemailer
set up the Google App password for sending authenticated mail
use dotenv to set up environment variables to secure data npm install dotenv
create .gitignore file for .env and node_modules files
automate the daily report email using Github Actions

yaml file

name: Daily Forecast

on:
   schedule:
   - cron: "0 14 * * *"
   workflow_dispatch:

env:
    MAIL_USER_EMAIL: ${{secrets.MAIL_USER_EMAIL}}     
    MAIL_USER_PASSWORD: ${{secrets.MAIL_USER_PASSWORD}}                                                              
    MAIL_FROM: ${{secrets.MAIL_FROM}}
    MAIL_TO: ${{secrets.MAIL_TO}}
    ACCUWEATHER_API_KEY: ${{secrets.ACCUWEATHER_API_KEY}}
jobs:
  report:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [14.x]

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v2
      with:
        node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}

    - run: npm ci
    - run: node src/main.js

use Cron to schedule when the node script is running
add the local forecast with AccuWeather API
create an App on AccuWeather system
install nodefetch to use the browser fetch API inside the node script
add the query parameters from the Location API and Forecast API to the project
merge your changes to the Github repository
store the environment variables MAIL_FROM, MAIL_TO, MAIL_USER_EMAIL, MAIL_USER_PASSWORD and the API key ACCUWEATHER_API_KEY as Github action secrets and run the workflow