Help connecting Raindrop to Make

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What are you trying to achieve?

My goal is to link Raindrop to Make in order to extract information from the URLs I save, specifically, public tender notices from the EU bulletin (such as this one: https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/393552-2025), and send the information to Airtable.

Steps taken so far

I’ve created a scenario, but the tricky part is that I need to extract certain details that Make doesn’t seem to capture by default, such as the CPV code.

Is there a way to get the system to delve a bit deeper for that kind of data? Would it make sense to try connecting via an API instead, or perhaps explore using a scraping module?

I’m open to all suggestions.

Thanks very much!

Screenshots: scenario setup, module configuration, errors

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Hi Judit - welcome to the Community!

AFAIK, Raindrop doesn’t scrape web pages. So there’s no way that Raindrop can return content from the page itself.

I think you have two options. The first is easier but requires purchasing another service. The second doesn’t require any other services, but is a little more technically involved (but could also be more accurate).

For each of these you’d still use the Raindrop Watch Bookmarks module, but then you’d pass the URL on to the next steps (you won’t need the List Bookmarks module).

Option 1 - The easy route

Use a web scraping agent such as Airtop to scrape the web page. You just provide a natural language prompt of what information you want to recover from the page and it returns it.

Option 2 - Slightly more complex route

The TED archive allows for downloading specific notices in structured XML format.

  • Use the Text parser Replace module to transform the document URL into the format listed on the page above
  • Use the HTTP Make a request module to get the XML content
  • Use the XML app Parse XML module to deconstruct the data into individual parameters that can be used as objects in following modules

The output of the Parse XML module will have all the content of the tender in XML format - it’s then a question of how you extract the data you need from that schema.

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Thanks for getting back to me, David!

At first glance, Airtop seems to suit my needs better. Just so you know, the URLs I save in Raindrop come from an RSS app where I filter out the tender notices I’m interested in.

That said, the second option you mentioned also looks promising.

I’ll give both a go this weekend and see which one works best.

Cheers!

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