Start Site Crawls from a Drive Seed List
Keep site seeds in Drive and start a crawl job when a new list is ready for broader research.
Trigger
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Action
Start Crawl Job
Tool to spider a site for links and process them with the extract api into a single collection. use when you have seed urls and want to collect structured data across a site. requires a plus plan for crawl api access.
Why this helps
Expanding research from a handful of seed pages can take repetitive link discovery and manual extraction work.
- Start a crawl job from seed URLs saved in a new file.
- Collect structured data across a site through Diffbot's crawl API.
- Use a Drive file as the handoff for a new research batch.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Diffbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation named Crawl Sites from Drive Seeds.
- 3Tell Notis to read seed URLs from each new file and use Diffbot Start Crawl Job to process the sites into a collection.
- 4Choose File Created as the trigger and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real seed URL and confirm the account has crawl API access.
Questions about this workflow
Does the crawl action work on every Diffbot plan?
The listed action requires a Plus plan for crawl API access.
What should the file contain?
Include seed URLs for the sites you want Diffbot to crawl.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Diffbot. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
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