How to use the Groq API in Zapier

Step 1: Create a zap to generate an inspirational quote every day

First, we need to build a zap that triggers every day.

Head over to Zapier, then in the dashboard, in the top left, click the big orange “Create” button and select ‘Zaps’.

Inside the Zap editor, click on the box that says “Trigger” and select/search for ‘Schedule by Zapier’ as the app. Then select ‘Every Day’ as the event.

When configuring the trigger, choose your preferred time of day. We’ll do 9 am every day including weekends.

Test the zap and you’ll see a timestamp for the current time. You can ignore this. When the zap is live it will run at the correct time.

Step 2: Use the GroqCloud playground to test your prompt

Sign up for GroqCloud and then on the dashboard, click on the “Playground” tab on the left.

Here we’re going to simulate a chat conversation with Groq’s API to perfect our prompt.

In the left middle panel, we can leave the “SYSTEM” field empty. In the “USER” field let’s try the following prompt:

Generate a short inspirational quote to brighten my day.

In the top right, you’ll see a drop-down field to select your model. You can experiment here, but we’ll use ‘llama-3.1-70b-versatile’ which is one of the more powerful models from Meta.

Below this in the “PARAMETERS” panel, you can leave everything as is, except for ‘Stream’ which you should toggle off.

Finally, click the black ‘Submit’ button at the bottom and in the middle right panel you’ll see the AI-generated quote.

Step 3: Access the Groq API with a webhook step to generate the quote

Open a new page (make sure to keep the GroqCloud page open), go to the GroqCloud dashboard, and click the “API Keys” link on the left.

Then click the ‘Create API key’ button and give your new key a memorable name like “Zapier”.

Click “Submit” then copy the API key shown on the next screen.

Make sure to copy it as it’s not possible to view it again (but easy to create a new one if needed).

Unfortunately, Groq doesn’t have a Zapier integration, so we’re going to use a webhook step inside Zapier to send and receive data from the API.

In the zap editor, click the “Action” box. Select "Webhook by Zapier" as the app, and ‘Custom Request’ as the event.

Here are the fields you need to configure:

• Method
  Select ‘POST’.

• URL‍
  Input ‘https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/chat/completions’

• Data
  
  Go back to the GroqCloud Playground page you left open, and in the top right click the “View code” button.
  
  In the pane that appears, in the top right, switch from ‘cURL’ to ‘JSON mode, then copy the resulting code over to Zapier

• Headers‍
  Two lines need to be added here
  • Authorization = Bearer [Groq API Key]
  • Content-Type = application/json

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Test the Zap step, and in the “Data out” tab, scroll down until you see the ‘Choices Message Content’ field. This is the response from Groq’s API.

You now have the AI response as a field you can map in subsequent zap steps.

You could send the quote by email, or as a Slack message or even add it to a spreadsheet.
Whatever you want!
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This tutorial was created by Andrew.