Creating a Dust app that calls an external service

Discover how to build a Dust app that calls an external service using a cURL block.

Specifically, it will call an API from https://open-meteo.com/ to get the current temperature, given coordinates.

Add AI search to a Zendesk Help Center

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Zendesk connections is now available
Go to the documentation.

Below is an example on how do get an agent to answer our questions about some content available in Zendesk.

Send custom cold outreach emails using your prospect’s latest news

Sending cold emails is hard.

You need them to be as personal as possible, and this is doable with Dust apps. Here is how to search Google for the latest news of a specific prospect and automatically craft a cold email with your tone and expectations, embedding the latest info about your target.

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This is now possible with multi-tools
We have since released Multi-tools agents, which can do this same job with a lot less hassle. So if you are curious about how Dust Apps work, keep going, but if you want to achieve exactly that we would recommend building it using a multi-tool assistant instead.