Analyze web links shared in Box comments
Share a webpage link in a Box file comment and get its content type and structured data analyzed by Diffbot.
Trigger
New File Comment Added
Triggers when a new comment is added to a file in Box. This trigger monitors a specific Box file and fires when new comments are detected.
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
Useful links get buried in Box discussions, leaving you to open each one and figure out what it contains.
- Identify the kind of page behind a shared URL.
- Get structured results without manually opening each link.
- Keep research work connected to the Box file where it was discussed.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Box and Diffbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
- 3Tell Notis to analyze webpage URLs included in new comments on the chosen Box file and summarize the extracted content type and data.
- 4Pick Box's New File Comment Added trigger for the file, then choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with a real comment containing a webpage URL.
Questions about this workflow
What should the Box comment contain?
Include a webpage URL that Diffbot can access. The workflow uses the URL in the new comment as the analysis input.
What does Diffbot Analyze return?
It determines a page's content type and routes it to the appropriate extraction API. The exact extracted data depends on the page.
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