Get the article facts without opening every link
Turn article URLs arriving through Ably into structured metadata you can scan and act on quickly.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Get Article Data
Tool to extract information from articles, including authors, publication dates, and images. use when you need structured metadata from a web article url.
Why this helps
Finding the author, publication date, and key article details by hand adds friction to research and follow-up.
- Collects article metadata in one run.
- Makes incoming research easier to scan.
- Preserves the request context alongside the extraction.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Ably and Diffbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis from any channel.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to extract article data from URLs received in the Ably webhook and summarize the author, date, and images.
- 4Pick the webhook trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real article URL sent through Ably.
Questions about this workflow
What article details can this extract?
Diffbot Get Article Data can return structured details such as authors, publication dates, and images.
Can it summarize the article too?
Ask Notis to summarize the extracted result. The extraction event is for structured article data.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Ably to Diffbot. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
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