Maintain tailored extraction rules for partner sites
Use custom extraction rules for partner sites where standard APIs miss the details your research needs.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Create or Update Custom API
Creates or updates a Custom API with tailored website extraction rules.
Why this helps
Repeatedly handling the same site-specific parsing gaps creates extra cleanup in partner research.
- Define URL patterns and tailored extraction rules.
- Support sites that need more specific parsing logic.
- Keep custom API configuration work in a tracked run.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Adtraction and Diffbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis the outcome from any channel.
- 3Ask Notis to create or update a Diffbot Custom API using the supplied URL patterns, selectors, and extraction rules.
- 4Choose the notis_cron trigger and set a schedule and run report destination.
- 5Test with one real partner site pattern and review the resulting configuration.
Questions about this workflow
When is a Custom API useful?
Use it when specific websites need tailored parsing rules beyond standard Diffbot APIs.
Does this discover CSS selectors automatically?
The required patterns and rules should be supplied or determined as part of your research. Do not assume the action infers them.
What can be configured?
Custom API definitions can include URL patterns, CSS selectors, extraction rules, and preprocessing filters.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Adtraction to Diffbot. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Adtraction triggers
Diffbot actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Combine Entity Profiles
Combines entity profiles into an enriched unified view using the Knowledge Graph.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get Diffbot Account Details
Retrieves account details, credit balance, and usage statistics.
Create Bulk Extract Job
Submits a bulk URL extraction job that runs in the background and provides downloadable results.
Diffbot Analyze
Analyzes a web page, identifies its type, and extracts structured data.
Create or Update Custom API
Creates or updates a Custom API with tailored website extraction rules.
Get Article Data
Extracts structured information such as authors and publication dates from an article.
Create Bulk Enhance Job
Submits a bulk entity enrichment job that runs asynchronously.
Get Discussion Thread
Extracts posts and their relationships from a web discussion thread.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Adtraction and Diffbot, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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