Extracting contact names from articles produced by a data feed

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I have a data feed that sends articles to my email. As part of this process, I want to extract contact names from these articles. I have run into lots of problems with HTTP and JSON modules. Always produces data errors. A template would be great but some guidance would be appreciated.

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blueprint.json (30.4 KB)

As some extra information, this is an amended scenario that works for the email part. The router was added to extract from the feed any possible contact details in the feed articles. The aim was to build this into an Excel file - name, company, job title.

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Welcome to the Make community!

Yes, that is possible. You’ll need a minimum of three modules, if you use a single AI module to fetch the article content AND extract the required data.

To do this, you can try using the Dumpling AI “Extract data from URL with AI” module —

Scrapes and extracts structured data from a webpage with multimodal AI

For more information about the Extract data from URL with AI module and Dumpling AI app, see the corresponding Integrations page and the Help Centre documentation.

Here is an example of how your scenario could look like:
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This is just an example. Your final solution may or may not look like this depending on your requirements and actual data.

DumplingAI also does so much more, see also:

Examples of How to use Dumpling AI

For more information, see these Dumpling AI tutorials below, grouped by category:

YouTube & Videos

Image Generation

AI Agents & RAGs

Searching & Scraping

Other Data Extraction

Business & Social

Dumpling AI Tutorials

In short, Dumpling AI is able to replace several other paid services combined that cost more than itself, making it a noteworthy choice as the “multi-tool” of AI services.

How to Use

For more information on how to set this up, refer to these forum threads:

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues. P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!

— @samliew

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If only I had the time to do all this.
Struggling to get the Dumpling connection to work.

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Click on the “Get Started” button on the home page.

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After logging in or creating an account, click the “Create API key” on the top-right of the dashboard.

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You can also find the API key link in the sidebar.

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Click “+ Generate new secret API Key” button below the table.

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After creating a key, copy it into this field in the API key field and save.

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Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues. P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!

— @samliew

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Connected to Dumpling and built the scenario but getting data error - Probably the first of many.

RuntimeError

Error: [400] “Failed to extract URL: SyntaxError: Unterminated string in JSON at position 6586” # Response Headers: {“date”:“Wed, 21 May 2025 11:44:14 GMT”,“content-type”:“application/json”,“transfer-encoding”:“chunked”,“connection”:“close”,“server”:“cloudflare”,“vary”:“RSC, Next-Router-State-Tree, Next-Router-Prefetch”,“x-railway-edge”:“railway/europe-west4”,“x-railway-request-id”:“tIYnbYj7RXuPDjIGg5js2Q”,“cf-cache-status”:“DYNAMIC”,“nel”:“{"report_to":"cf-nel","success_fraction":0.0,"max_age":604800}”,“report-to”:“{"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://a.nel.cloudflare.com/report/v4?s=WXdcYIGbeP8UC7AdRoCJMG6QcevcmAb2d26UpshGrKsibWsRb%2BjUZ6TLo3i4sP7hcgCm0%2FYtOw3y2p%2Ffyxhbmfz7%2F0TAEfflTgSPZuEbmSs%3D\“}]}”,“cf-ray”:“9433d1953e6b96b3-DUB”,“alt-svc”:“h3=\”:443\”; ma=86400"}

Origin

Dumpling AI

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How is your module set up now?

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You can’t pass the Google RSS search URL into this module. If you’d follow my provided example above, I pass each individual result into this module as a variable.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues. P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!

— @samliew

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Don’t understand. So use the Array Aggregator instead of Dumpling?

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Please see the section above with the screenshot titled “Here is an example of how your scenario could look like” — I have literally provided an example…

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This screenshot assumes a lot of extra knowledge that I might not have!

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In that case, I would suggest completing the Make Academy before jumping into building a complete scenario. If you need specific assistance when you are building a scenario it’s easier to help you then.

Here are some useful links and guides you can use to learn more on how to use the Make platform, apps, and app modules. I found these useful when I was learning Make, and hope they might benefit you too —

Getting Started

Help Centre Basics

Articles & Videos

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Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues. P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!

— @samliew