Opening URL contained on an airtable field

How To
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What are you trying to achieve?

My goal is to be able to check airtable records which have some values and then open an URL contained on an airtable field

Steps taken so far

I have already set Up the record picker and filter and the trigger via webhook with an interface button on airtable , but i m not being able to open the URL i need (an specific base of my workspace), which is contained on an airtable field of each record selected. Should i try It through HTTP module or Chrome module??? How should any of those be configurated to achieve It.

Thanks in advance for your time

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HI Javier, welcome to the community.

You can use http make a request module and in the url field add the column of the airtable that contains the url

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Welcome to the Make community!

So you basically need to “visit” the site yourself to get the content. This is called Web Scraping.

Web Scraping

For web scraping, a service you can use is ScrapeNinja to get content from the page.

ScrapeNinja allows you to use jQuery-like selectors to extract content from elements by using an extractor function. ScrapeNinja also can run the page in a real web-browser, loading all the content and running the page load scripts so it closely simulates what you see, as opposed to just the raw page HTML fetched from the HTTP module.

If you want an example, take a look at Grab data from page and url - #5 by samliew

AI-powered “easier” method

You can also use AI-powered web scraping tools like Dumpling AI.

This is probably the easiest and quickest way to set-up, because all you need to do is to describe the content that you want, instead of inspecting the element to create selectors, or having to come up with regular expression patterns.

The plus-side of this is that such services combine BOTH fetching and extracting of the data in a single module (saving operations), and doing away with the lengthy setup from the other methods.

For more information on the different methods of web scraping, see Overview of Different Web Scraping Techniques in Make 🌐

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.

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Thanks for your replies.

I will explore both solutions i will let you know about results.

Any way i will spend some time at Make academy, i think would be extremely useful.

Thanks

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Hi Sam.

I have already been working on this, and maybe, i din´t explain properly, or i´m not understanding the process.

I have already achive to extract from Airtable the URL that i need to be open in the browser. But the thing is that i don´t need to extract info from that URL, just to open it on the Browser so can can introduce data on the corresponding Airtable Base.

Thank you very much anyway.