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Get a clear competitor search brief on request

Send Notis a search topic and receive the results you need for your next decision, without opening another research tab.

Trigger

Webhook received

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

Action

SERP Search

Tool to perform serp (search engine results page) searches across different search engines. use when you need to retrieve search results, trending topics, or competitive analysis data.

Why this helps

Competitor research often sprawls across search tabs, making it hard to spot the useful results and return to your work.

  • Collect search results for a topic when a question comes up.
  • Ask Notis to summarize the returned results into a readable brief.
  • Keep research requests tied to a specific business decision.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Ably and Brightdata once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
  • 3Tell Notis to search the supplied topic and summarize the results for the stated decision.
  • 4Pick the webhook trigger and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with one real competitor search request.

Questions about this workflow

What starts this workflow?

An HTTP request starts the Notis webhook trigger. Include the search topic and the decision you are researching in your request.

Does this workflow guarantee a complete competitor analysis?

No. It retrieves SERP results for the supplied search and can summarize them. The results depend on the query and search coverage.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Ably to Brightdata. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Ably triggers

Brightdata actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Trigger Site Crawl

Tool to trigger a site crawl job to extract content across multiple pages or entire domains. use when you need to start a crawl for a given dataset and list of urls.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Browse Available Scrapers

Tool to list all available pre-made scrapers (datasets) from bright data's marketplace. use when you need to browse available data sources for structured scraping.

ActionInstant

Filter Dataset

Tool to apply custom filter criteria to a marketplace dataset (beta). use after selecting a dataset to generate a filtered snapshot.

ActionInstant

Get Available Cities

Tool to get available static network cities for a given country. use when you need to configure static proxy endpoints after selecting a country.

ActionInstant

Get Available Countries

Tool to list available countries and their iso 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. use when you need to configure zones with valid country codes before provisioning proxies.

ActionInstant

Download Scraped Data

Tool to retrieve the scraped data from a completed crawl job by snapshot id. use after triggering a crawl or filtering a dataset to download the collected data.

ActionInstant

Check Crawl Status

Tool to check the processing status of a crawl job using snapshot id. call before attempting to download results to ensure data collection is complete.

ActionInstant

List Unlocker Zones

Tool to list your configured web unlocker zones and proxy endpoints. use to view available zones for web scraping and bot protection bypass.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Ably and Brightdata, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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