Refresh competitor product research in batches
Keep product research moving by scheduling bulk extraction from the competitor URLs you maintain.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Start Bulk Job
Tool to start a bulk extract job. use when processing large numbers of urls asynchronously.
Why this helps
Checking competitor pages individually is easy to defer and makes it hard to keep a broad review moving.
- Submit many competitor URLs to an asynchronous bulk job.
- Use a maintained list so the research scope stays explicit.
- Reduce repetitive page by page review.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Diffbot in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, then New Automation, and name the recurring job.
- 3Tell Notis to start a bulk extraction from your maintained competitor URL list and report the outcome.
- 4Pick a recurring schedule and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with a small representative set of competitor URLs.
Questions about this workflow
Does this automatically discover competitor URLs?
No. Provide and maintain the URL list for the bulk job.
What kind of job does it start?
It starts an asynchronous bulk extract job for a large number of URLs.
Can it compare changes over time?
The action starts extraction. Comparing results over time requires that you retain baseline data and make it available to Notis.
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