How to Map the JSON Data properly using Aggregator or Set Variables for update to Sheets?

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Combining Bundles Using Aggregators

Every result (item/record) from trigger/iterator/list/search/match modules will output a bundle. This can result in multiple bundles, which then trigger multiple operations in future modules (one operation per bundle). To “combine” multiple bundles into a single variable, you’ll need to use an aggregator of some sort.

Aggregators are modules that accumulate multiple bundles into one single bundle. An example of a commonly-used aggregator module is the Array aggregator module. The next popular aggregator is the Text Aggregator which is very flexible and can apply to many use-cases like building of JSON, CSV, HTML.

Mapping a Specific Structure Into a Complex Field

The Array Aggregator module is very powerful because it allows you to build a complex array of collections for a later module’s field to map multiple items (collections) to it.

This is done using the “Target structure type” field in an Array Aggregator module.

Here is an example:

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As you can see, the “Map” toggle on complex fields are used when you have an array. You can easily build an array variable to map to a future module’s field, by using an Array Aggregator module and select the “Target Structure Type” as the future module’s field you have mapped the array into.

Example

You’ll need a minimum of four modules:

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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 input data.

The Dumpling AI module replaces all the in-between modules in your current scenario above.

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, see:

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.

— @samliew

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