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Getting Started#

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

Select this integration
Configure the New Message (Instant) trigger
1. Connect your Discord account
2. Configure Channels
3. Configure discordApphook
Configure the Start Scraping action
1. Connect your Scrape-It.Cloud account
2. Configure URL
3. Optional- Configure Headers
4. Optional- Configure Block Resources
5. Optional- Configure Block URLs
6. Optional- Configure Wait
7. Optional- Configure Wait For
8. Optional- Configure Screenshot
9. Optional- Configure JS Scenario
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#

New Message (Instant) on Discord

Description:Emit new event for each message posted to one or more channels in a Discord server

Version:1.0.3

Key:discord-new-message

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Discord Overview#

The Discord API interacts seamlessly with Pipedream, empowering you to craft customized automations and workflows for your Discord server. With this powerful integration, you can automate tasks like message posting, user management, and notifications, based on a myriad of triggers and actions from different apps. These automations can enhance the Discord experience for community moderators and members, by synchronizing with external tools, organizing community engagement, and streamlining notifications.

Trigger Code#

import discord from "../../discord.app.mjs";
import sampleEmit from "./test-event.mjs";

export default {
  type: "source",
  key: "discord-new-message",
  name: "New Message (Instant)",
  description: "Emit new event for each message posted to one or more channels in a Discord server",
  version: "1.0.3",

  dedupe: "unique",
  props: {
    discord,
    channels: {
      type: "$.discord.channel[]",
      appProp: "discord",
      label: "Channels",
      description: "Select the channel(s) you'd like to be notified for",
    },
    // eslint-disable-next-line pipedream/props-label,pipedream/props-description
    discordApphook: {
      type: "$.interface.apphook",
      appProp: "discord",
      async eventNames() {
        return this.channels || [];
      },
    },
  },
  async run(event) {
    if (event.guildID != this.discord.$auth.guild_id) {
      return;
    }
    this.$emit(event, {
      id: event.id,
    });
  },
  sampleEmit,
};

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
Discord	`discord`	`app`	This component uses the Discord app.
Channels	`channels`	`$.discord.channel[]`	Select the channel(s) you'd like to be notified for
	`discordApphook`	`$.interface.apphook`

Trigger Authentication#

Discord uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Discord account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Discord and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Discord API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

botemailidentifyguilds

About Discord#

Use this app to create a Discord source that emits messages from your guild to a Pipedream workflow.

Action#

Start Scraping on Scrape-It.Cloud

Description:Initiate the scraping process for a specific endpoint. [See the documentation here](https://scrape-it.cloud/docs/api-features/basic-request).

Version:0.0.1

Key:scrape_it_cloud-start-scraping

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Scrape-It.Cloud Overview#

The Scrape-It.Cloud API allows you to automate the extraction of data from websites. It can parse, scrape, and retrieve content without the need for manual intervention. With this API on Pipedream, you can build workflows that trigger on various events and use the scraped data for numerous applications like data analysis, lead generation, and content aggregation.

Action Code#

import app from "../../scrape_it_cloud.app.mjs";
import utils from "../../common/utils.mjs";

export default {
  key: "scrape_it_cloud-start-scraping",
  name: "Start Scraping",
  description: "Initiate the scraping process for a specific endpoint. [See the documentation here](https://scrape-it.cloud/docs/api-features/basic-request).",
  type: "action",
  version: "0.0.1",
  props: {
    app,
    url: {
      type: "string",
      label: "URL",
      description: "Specify the URL of the web page you would like to scrape.",
    },
    headers: {
      type: "object",
      label: "Headers",
      description: "Specify custom HTTP headers to be passed to the request. For example, in order to override the User-Agent header, use `User-Agent` as a key and `Teapot` as a value.",
      optional: true,
    },
    blockResources: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "Block Resources",
      description: "By default Scrape-it.cloud do not block images and CSS in the scraped page. To speed up requests and block images and CSS set this parameter value to true.",
      optional: true,
    },
    blockUrls: {
      type: "string[]",
      label: "Block URLs",
      description: "If you want to block some resources except images and CSS, for example, analytics scripts you can add part of the urls to be blocked. Follow [Blocking URLs](https://scrape-it.cloud/docs/api-features/blocking-urls) page to get more information.",
      optional: true,
    },
    wait: {
      type: "integer",
      label: "Wait",
      description: "Some websites may use javascript frameworks that may require a few extra seconds to load their content. This parameters specifies the time in milliseconds to wait for the website. Recommended values are in the interval `5000` - `10000`.",
      optional: true,
    },
    waitFor: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Wait For",
      description: "Specify a CSS selector and the API will wait 30 seconds until the selector appears.",
      optional: true,
    },
    screenshot: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "Screenshot",
      description: "If you want to get a screenshot of the page you want to scrape, set screenshot parameter value to `true`.",
      optional: true,
    },
    jsScenario: {
      type: "string[]",
      label: "JS Scenario",
      description: "If you want to do some acts on the pages you want to scrape, for example, go to the next one, set JavaScript scenario to API call. Follow [JavaScript Execution](https://scrape-it.cloud/docs/api-features/javascript-execution) page to get more information.",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  methods: {
    scrape(args = {}) {
      return this.app.post({
        path: "/scrape",
        ...args,
      });
    },
  },
  async run({ $: step }) {
    const {
      url, headers, blockResources, blockUrls, wait, waitFor, screenshot, jsScenario,
    } = this;

    const response = await this.scrape({
      step,
      data: {
        url,
        headers: utils.parse(headers),
        block_resources: blockResources,
        block_urls: utils.parseArray(blockUrls),
        wait,
        wait_for: waitFor,
        screenshot,
        js_scenario: utils.parseArray(jsScenario)?.map(utils.parse),
      },
    });

    step.export("$summary", `Successfully scraped ${url}.`);

    return response;
  },
};

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
Scrape-It.Cloud	`app`	`app`	This component uses the Scrape-It.Cloud app.
URL	`url`	`string`	Specify the URL of the web page you would like to scrape.
Headers	`headers`	`object`	Specify custom HTTP headers to be passed to the request. For example, in order to override the User-Agent header, use `User-Agent` as a key and `Teapot` as a value.
Block Resources	`blockResources`	`boolean`	By default Scrape-it.cloud do not block images and CSS in the scraped page. To speed up requests and block images and CSS set this parameter value to true.
Block URLs	`blockUrls`	`string[]`	If you want to block some resources except images and CSS, for example, analytics scripts you can add part of the urls to be blocked. Follow Blocking URLs page to get more information.
Wait	`wait`	`integer`	Some websites may use javascript frameworks that may require a few extra seconds to load their content. This parameters specifies the time in milliseconds to wait for the website. Recommended values are in the interval `5000` - `10000`.
Wait For	`waitFor`	`string`	Specify a CSS selector and the API will wait 30 seconds until the selector appears.
Screenshot	`screenshot`	`boolean`	If you want to get a screenshot of the page you want to scrape, set screenshot parameter value to `true`.
JS Scenario	`jsScenario`	`string[]`	If you want to do some acts on the pages you want to scrape, for example, go to the next one, set JavaScript scenario to API call. Follow JavaScript Execution page to get more information.