Keep article context with the emails you send
Send an article link and have its author, publication date, and available images gathered for a quick follow-up brief.
Trigger
Email Sent
Triggers when a Gmail message is sent by the authenticated user. It polls the 'SENT' label and emits metadata including sender, recipients, subject, timestamp, and thread ID.
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
After sharing an article, its source details can get lost before you revisit it or discuss it with someone.
- Create a convenient reference after sharing an article.
- Keep authorship and publication details available for later discussion.
- Reduce the effort of revisiting a sent link to recover its context.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Diffbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, then choose a name and prompt.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to extract available article details from links in emails you send and return a brief.
- 4Choose the Email Sent trigger and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test by sending one real email containing a public article URL.
Questions about this workflow
Does this run on received messages?
No. This workflow uses the Email Sent trigger for messages sent by the authenticated Gmail user.
What details are included in the brief?
Diffbot's article action can extract authors, publication dates, and images, depending on what the page provides.
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