Keep article metadata with updated Jira research tickets
When a research issue changes, extract the article details from its public URL and include them in the run report.
Trigger
Updated Issue
Fires when an existing issue is changed in the Jira project you configure — for example its status, assignee, or any other field on the issue is updated. Only issues in that project produce an event. It does not fire on comment activity: adding, editing, or deleting a comment on an issue will not produce an event from this trigger.
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
Research tickets change as work progresses, and key article details can stay buried in the source page or get lost across browser tabs.
- Retrieve article authors, publication dates, and images from a URL.
- Keep extracted source context available with the Jira issue run.
- Make updated research work easier to review.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Jira and Diffbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or tell Notis from any channel.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to extract article data from public URLs in updated Jira issues and report it with the issue context.
- 4Pick Jira's Updated Issue trigger for the project you configure, then choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real issue containing an article URL.
Questions about this workflow
Does an issue comment trigger this automation?
No. The Updated Issue event does not fire for comment activity. It fires when an existing issue in the configured project is changed.
What details can Diffbot return?
The article action extracts information such as authors, publication dates, and images from an article URL.
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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.
Updated Issue
Fires when an existing issue is changed in the Jira project you configure — for example its status, assignee, or any other field on the issue is updated. Only issues in that project produce an event. It does not fire on comment activity: adding, editing, or deleting a comment on an issue will not produce an event from this trigger.
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