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Accessing URLs from an Airtable Field

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Javier_Plaza
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What are you trying to achieve?

My objective is to check Airtable records that contain specific values and then open a URL stored within an Airtable field.

Steps taken so far

I've already set up the record picker, filter, and the trigger via webhook with an interface button in Airtable. However, I'm unable to open the required URL (a specific base in my workspace), which is stored in an Airtable field for each selected record. Should I attempt this using the HTTP module or the Chrome module? How should either of these be configured to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance for your time.

 
Posted : 04/10/2024 2:22 pm
abhilash_naik
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Hi Javier, welcome to the community.

You can use the HTTP Request module and in the URL field, add the column from Airtable that contains the URL.

 
Posted : 04/10/2024 2:29 pm
samliew
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Welcome to the callin.io community!

So you essentially need to “visit” the site yourself to retrieve the content. This process is known as Web Scraping.

Web Scraping

For web scraping, a service you can utilize is ScrapeNinja to obtain content from a webpage.

ScrapeNinja enables you to employ jQuery-like selectors to extract content from elements by using an extractor function. ScrapeNinja can also execute the page in a real web-browser, loading all content and running page load scripts, thereby closely simulating your view, as opposed to merely fetching the raw page HTML via the HTTP module.

If you're looking for an example, please refer to Grab data from page and url - #5 by samliew

AI-powered “easier” method

You can also leverage AI-powered web scraping tools such as Dumpling AI.

This is likely the most straightforward and rapid approach, as it only requires you to describe the content you need, rather than inspecting elements to create selectors or devising regular expression patterns.

The advantage here is that such services integrate BOTH data fetching and extraction into a single module (conserving operations), eliminating the extensive setup required by other methods.

For additional details on various web scraping techniques, consult Overview of Different Web Scraping Techniques in Make 🌐

Hope this proves helpful! Please let me know if you have any further questions or encounter any issues.

P.S.: Investing some time in the callin.io Academy can significantly reduce your time and frustration when using callin.io.

 
Posted : 05/10/2024 2:28 am
Javier_Plaza
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Thanks for your replies.

I will explore both solutions and will let you know about the results.

In any case, I will spend some time at the callin.io academy, as I think it would be extremely useful.

Thanks

 
Posted : 06/10/2024 6:24 am
Javier_Plaza
(@javier_plaza)
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Hi there.

I've been working on this and perhaps I didn't explain it clearly, or I might be misunderstanding the process.

I've successfully managed to extract the URL from Airtable that needs to be opened in the browser. However, my goal isn't to extract information from that URL; I simply need to open it in the browser so I can input data into the relevant Airtable Base.

Thank you very much for your help regardless.

 
Posted : 07/10/2024 11:56 am
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