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Find existing eBay requests for an Affinity research topic

Check whether a relevant request is already queued before repeating research setup.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

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

Action

Find Collection Requests

Find collection requests by exact custom ID or text search.

Why this helps

Duplicate requests waste attention when it is unclear what a collection already contains.

  • Search existing requests by a deal-related phrase.
  • Reduce avoidable duplicate research setup.
  • Make a collection's relevant work easier to find.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Affinity and Countdown API once in Notis.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it.
  • 3Tell Notis to search the specified Countdown collection for requests matching the selected Affinity research topic and report the matches.
  • 4Choose a recurring schedule and where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with a collection and a known search phrase.

Questions about this workflow

Can this check every collection?

The action finds requests in a collection, so provide the collection to search.

Does it delete duplicates?

No. It finds matching requests and reports them so you can decide what to do.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Affinity to Countdown api. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Affinity triggers

Countdown api actions

Recurring trigger

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

TriggerScheduled

Clear Collection Requests

Clears all pending requests from a collection.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

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

TriggerInstant

Create a new collection

Creates a collection for batching and scheduling requests.

ActionInstant

Get Collection

Retrieves details about a collection.

ActionInstant

List Collections

Lists collections in the authenticated account.

ActionInstant

Start Collection

Starts processing the queued requests in a collection.

ActionInstant

Update an existing collection

Updates the settings of an existing collection.

ActionInstant

eBay Autocomplete

Fetches autocomplete suggestions for search terms.

ActionInstant

Create Destination

Creates a cloud storage destination for batch results.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Affinity and Countdown api, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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