Identify the kind of page a submission references
Get a useful first read on whether a submitted link is an article, product page, or another supported page type.
Trigger
New Canvas Assignment Submission
Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
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
A stream of submissions with mixed links makes it harder to know what kind of source each one uses.
- Identifies page type from a supplied URL.
- Helps triage submissions with different kinds of web sources.
- Avoids choosing a specialized extractor before the page type is known.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Diffbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a clear name.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to find a public page URL in the new submission and run Diffbot Analyze on it.
- 4Choose New Canvas Assignment Submission as the trigger and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real submission containing a public URL.
Questions about this workflow
Will it analyze a URL that is not part of the submission?
No. Provide the URL in the submission context or otherwise make it available to the automation.
Does Analyze guarantee complete extraction?
No. It determines a likely content type and routes to an appropriate extractor; the page's accessibility and structure affect results.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
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