Crawl a competitor site monthly
Keep a lightweight pulse on public competitor pages without manual browsing.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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
Competitor sites change gradually, making important updates easy to miss between reviews.
- Starts a crawl from a defined seed URL
- Collects structured data across linked pages
- Creates a repeatable competitor research checkpoint
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Diffbot once in Notis.
- 2Create an automation named Crawl competitor site monthly.
- 3Tell Notis to start a Diffbot Crawl Job from the seed URL you provide and report the job ID and scope.
- 4Pick a recurring Notis schedule as the trigger and choose where reports should go.
- 5Test with one approved public competitor URL.
Questions about this workflow
Does this crawl private or blocked pages?
No. Diffbot can only process pages accessible under the service and site rules.
Is a Plus plan required?
The supplied action description says Crawl Job requires a Plus plan.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
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Google Slides triggers
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Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
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When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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