What can I automate with the On This Day integration?

Look up what happened on any day of the year with On This Day, the free keyless API behind byabbe.se. Get the events, births and deaths Wikipedia records for a date, today's unless you name another, narrowed by keyword or by century, pick one at random for a fact-of-the-day post, or find what turns fifty or a hundred today. Every year comes back as a number rather than the string the service sends, BC years included, and a date with an empty section is an empty answer rather than a failed step. The data is harvested from Wikipedia and shares its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence. No account and no API key: connecting takes one click. Lodol supports 7 actions for On This Day, which you can combine with any other app in a workflow.

How do I connect On This Day to Lodol?

Connect On This Day once in your workspace and every action and trigger it supports can be added to a workflow, by you in the editor or by your AI.

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On This Day

Look up what happened on any day of the year with On This Day, the free keyless API behind byabbe.se.

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Actions

Steps a workflow can run in On This Day.

Get events on a dateGet what happened on a day of the year, as Wikipedia records it: the year, what happened, and the articles it links to. Leave the date empty for today. Narrow it with a keyword or a year range, and every year comes back as a number rather than the string the service sends. No API key required.
Get births on a dateGet who was born on a day of the year, with the year and the Wikipedia article for each. Leave the date empty for today. Narrow it to a century with a year range, or to a field with a keyword, which searches the linked article titles as well as the sentence. No API key required.
Get deaths on a dateGet who died on a day of the year, with the year and the Wikipedia article for each. Leave the date empty for today. A date whose section Wikipedia has not filled in comes back empty rather than failing the step: 2 February publishes no deaths at all. No API key required.
Get this day in historyGet the events, the births and the deaths of one date in a single step, with the full count of each. Built for a daily post or digest: three separate steps would each need the same date, and a workflow running across midnight would give two of them one day and the third another. No API key required.
Get a random historical factPick one entry at random from a date, for a fact-of-the-day post. Choose which section to draw from, and narrow it by keyword or year first. A date with nothing to draw from comes back with 'found' false rather than failing the step. No API key required.
Get round-number anniversariesFind what turns fifty, a hundred or two hundred today: the entries on a date whose age this year divides exactly by the interval you set. The service publishes a year and never a distance from one, so this is arithmetic it cannot do. Biggest anniversary first. No API key required.
Check service statusCheck whether On This Day is answering, and how quickly. This is the one action that reports a problem as a value instead of failing the step, so a workflow can decide what to do about it. Being asked to slow down is reported separately from being down. No API key required.