Know what each research link contains
New research task? Let Diffbot inspect its URLs and give you a useful starting summary.
Trigger
New Task Created
Triggers when a new task is created in a project.
Action
Diffbot Analyze
Tool to automatically determine a page's content type and route it to the appropriate extraction api. use when you have only a url and need diffbot to choose the right extractor.
Why this helps
Opening every link just to learn what kind of page it is burns time before the research even begins.
- Identify whether a URL is an article, product page, or another content type.
- Get a structured starting point without opening each page manually.
- Keep link review close to the task that prompted it.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Asana and Diffbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name and prompt.
- 3Tell Notis to analyze URLs included in new research tasks and summarize the detected page types.
- 4Pick the Asana New Task Created trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real task that contains a public URL.
Questions about this workflow
Does this work if a task has no URL?
There is no page for Diffbot to analyze, so the instruction should tell Notis to report that no URL was found.
Does Diffbot choose the extraction type?
Yes. Diffbot Analyze identifies the page type and routes it to the appropriate extractor.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
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Asana triggers
Diffbot actions
Recurring trigger
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Webhook trigger
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When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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