Bring article context into new contact follow-up
When a new contact is created, turn an article URL you already have into useful context for your next conversation.
Trigger
New Contact Trigger
Triggers when a new Contact is Created in Salesforce.
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
A contact record can arrive with a relevant article link, but opening and reviewing it adds another task to an already busy day.
- Retrieve structured article metadata from a supplied URL.
- See authors, publication dates, and images without manually reviewing the page.
- Prepare more relevant contact follow-up with less tab switching.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Salesforce and Diffbot once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it for contact article research.
- 3Tell Notis to extract article details from a URL available with a new contact and summarize the context.
- 4Pick the New Contact trigger, choose where run reports go, and test with one real contact that has an article URL.
Questions about this workflow
Does this find articles for a contact automatically?
No. The automation needs an article URL available in the event context or supplied in your instruction.
What article information can Diffbot return?
The article extractor can provide structured details including authors, publication dates, and images.
When this happens · Trigger
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