Keep cited article details with release changes
When release notes or details change, preserve useful metadata from their linked articles in a concise run report.
Trigger
GitHub Release State Changed
Triggers when a specific GitHub release (identified by tag name) changes. Monitors the release title, body/notes, draft flag, prerelease flag, published timestamp, target branch/commit, and the set of attached assets. The payload includes the full current release details, a list of which fields changed, and the previous values for comparison.
Action
Get Article Data
Tool to extract information from articles, including authors, publication dates, and images. use when you need structured metadata from a web article url.
Why this helps
Release references can point to articles whose authors and dates are tedious to recapture when the release changes.
- Capture article author, publication date, and image information when available.
- Keep linked article context alongside release change details.
- Make release follow-up faster.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect GitHub and Diffbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
- 3Describe the outcome in one instruction: extract article metadata for article URLs supplied with a release change and summarize the data with the release details.
- 4Pick the GitHub Release State Changed trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real release change that includes an article URL.
Questions about this workflow
Does the release trigger guarantee a link to an article?
No. The automation needs an article URL supplied with the release change to call Get Article Data.
Can it publish changes back to the release?
This workflow extracts information and reports it through Notis. It does not modify the GitHub release.
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Tool to extract information from articles, including authors, publication dates, and images. use when you need structured metadata from a web article url.
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