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

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

Custom Interval on Schedule

Description:Trigger your workflow every N hours, minutes or seconds.

Version:0.0.2

Key:schedule-custom-interval

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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.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Schedule	`schedule`	`app`	This component uses the Schedule app.
Cron Schedule	`cron`	`$.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#

Scrape URL List on Browserless

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

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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.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Browserless	`browserless`	`app`	This component uses the Browserless app.
URLs	`urls`	`string[]`	The list of URLs to scrape content from.
Selectors	`selectors`	`string[]`	The HTML tag selectors to extract.