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Scrape URL List with Browserless API on Custom Interval from Schedule API

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Scrape URL List with the Browserless API
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Getting Started

This integration creates a workflow with a Schedule trigger and Browserless action. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

  1. Select this integration
  2. Configure the Custom Interval trigger
    1. Connect your Schedule account
    2. Configure Cron Schedule
  3. Configure the Scrape URL List action
    1. Connect your Browserless account
    2. Configure URLs
    3. Configure Selectors
  4. Deploy the workflow
  5. Send a test event to validate your setup
  6. Turn on the trigger

Details

This integration uses pre-built, source-available components from Pipedream's GitHub repo. These components are developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Trigger

Description:Trigger your workflow every N hours, minutes or seconds.
Version:0.0.2
Key:schedule-custom-interval

Schedule Overview

With Schedule - A trigger provided by Pipedream - You can easily build
automated workflows that run on regular times or intervals. Some examples of
things that you can build using the Schedule API include:

  • Automated data retrieval from a third-party service, like pulling stats from
    your Salesforce account on a set schedule.
  • Uploading new data sets to a database with a predetermined interval.
  • Automatic emails to customers or leads at a certain time of the day.
  • Automating data analysis based on a set schedule.
  • Automatically optimizing social media postings according to a specified
    timeline.
  • Updating webpages at a certain interval with newly available content.
  • Re-running reports on a periodic basis.
  • Refreshing a cache of data at a given frequency.

Trigger Code

import schedule from "../../schedule.app.mjs";

export default {
  name: "Custom Interval",
  version: "0.0.2",
  key: "schedule-custom-interval",
  type: "source",
  description: "Trigger your workflow every N hours, minutes or seconds.",
  props: {
    schedule,
    cron: {
      propDefinition: [
        schedule,
        "cron",
      ],
    },
  },
};

Trigger Configuration

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.
LabelPropTypeDescription
SchedulescheduleappThis component uses the Schedule app.
Cron Schedulecron$.interface.timer

Enter a cron expression

Trigger Authentication

The Schedule API does not require authentication.

About Schedule

Trigger workflows on an interval or cron schedule.

Action

Description:Scrape content from a list of pages. [See the documentation](https://www.browserless.io/docs/scrape).
Version:0.0.2
Key:browserless-scrape-url-list

Browserless Overview

Browserless allows you to build websites and applications that can be used
without a web browser. This means that you can create apps that can be used
offline, or that can be used on devices that don't have a web browser
installed.

Some examples of things that you can build using Browserless are:

  • A website that can be used without a web browser
  • An app that can be used offline
  • A app that can be used on devices that don't have a web browser installed

Action Code

import browserless from "../../browserless.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "browserless-scrape-url-list",
  name: "Scrape URL List",
  description: "Scrape content from a list of pages. [See the documentation](https://www.browserless.io/docs/scrape).",
  version: "0.0.2",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    browserless,
    urls: {
      type: "string[]",
      label: "URLs",
      description: "The list of URLs to scrape content from.",
    },
    selectors: {
      type: "string[]",
      label: "Selectors",
      description: "The HTML tag selectors to extract.",
      default: [
        "body",
      ],
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    if (typeof this.urls === "string") {
      this.urls = JSON.parse(this.urls);
    }

    const result = {};
    const promises = [];

    for (const url of this.urls) {
      promises.push(this.browserless.scrape({
        $,
        data: {
          url,
          elements: this.selectors?.map((selector) => ({
            selector,
          })),
        },
      }));
    }

    const responses = await Promise.all(promises);
    for (let i = 0; i < promises.length; i++) {
      result[this.urls[i]] = responses[i].data[0].results[0].text;
    }

    return result;
  },
};

Action Configuration

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI.

LabelPropTypeDescription
BrowserlessbrowserlessappThis component uses the Browserless app.
URLsurlsstring[]

The list of URLs to scrape content from.

Selectorsselectorsstring[]

The HTML tag selectors to extract.

Action Authentication

Browserless uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your Browserless account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to Browserless APIs in both code and no-code steps.

Sign-up for a browserless account, it will create a unique token that allows service interaction.

About Browserless

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