Scrape a webpage when tracked docs change
Keep a web data snapshot aligned with the documents you track.
Trigger
Document Search Update
Triggers when a Google Doc matching a user-defined search query is newly created or updated since the last poll. This trigger uses timestamp filtering to efficiently monitor documents.
Action
Scrape webpage content using CSS selectors
A tool to extract structured content from a webpage by specifying css selectors. the tool navigates to the specified url, waits for the page to load (including parsing and executing javascript), and returns the selected elements in a structured json format.
Why this helps
Important source updates can sit unnoticed while downstream web data goes stale.
- Refreshes structured web data on relevant updates
- Supports focused CSS selector extraction
- Reduces stale research snapshots
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Docs and Browserless once in Notis.
- 2Create an automation named Tracked document source scrape.
- 3Tell Notis which URL and CSS selectors to scrape and how to report changes.
- 4Pick Document Search Update as the trigger and choose a report channel.
- 5Test with one matching document update.
Questions about this workflow
What counts as a matching document?
The user-defined Google Docs search query determines which documents are monitored.
Can the scrape return JSON?
Yes. Ask Notis to report the selected elements as structured JSON.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
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Document Search Update
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