I recently discovered Zapier and I love the idea that you can free yourself from your boring daily tasks. However, I have a pretty complex idea and I'm not sure I can execute it myself.
I use a website on a daily basis that draws me floor plans. I save these files into my Dropbox in different folder every time. Once the files are available to download, I receive an email with a job ID. My idea is to set up a Zap that do this automatically. Any suggestion how to do it? Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance,
Balazs
Best answer by jesse
Just coming in to sum up the advice from this thread!
@BalazsKovacs- I think you’ll find this very hard to do with Zapier or any tool.
There are various web scrapers that can automate logging in and taking actions on websites, but they are unreliable most times as websites go to lengths to block these robots.
@BalazsKovacsThis is beyond the scope of this forum, but you might try looking into something like Tamper Monkey and hire someone on Upwork etc to build out a script for you that will "click" the button to download the file and place it in a named folder on dropbox. Once it's on dropbox you could trigger a Zap to do different things with the file.
@BalazsKovacs- just keep in mind with @PaulKortman that some websites prohibit this sort of thing, so it's worth checking T&Cs of even asking the company... you wouldn't want to get yourself a site ban.
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@BalazsKovacs - I think you’ll find this very hard to do with Zapier or any tool.
There are various web scrapers that can automate logging in and taking actions on websites, but they are unreliable most times as websites go to lengths to block these robots.
@BalazsKovacs This is beyond the scope of this forum, but you might try looking into something like Tamper Monkey and hire someone on Upwork etc to build out a script for you that will "click" the button to download the file and place it in a named folder on dropbox. Once it's on dropbox you could trigger a Zap to do different things with the file.
@BalazsKovacs - just keep in mind with @PaulKortman that some websites prohibit this sort of thing, so it's worth checking T&Cs of even asking the company... you wouldn't want to get yourself a site ban.
Just coming in to sum up the advice from this thread!
@BalazsKovacs- I think you’ll find this very hard to do with Zapier or any tool.
There are various web scrapers that can automate logging in and taking actions on websites, but they are unreliable most times as websites go to lengths to block these robots.
@BalazsKovacsThis is beyond the scope of this forum, but you might try looking into something like Tamper Monkey and hire someone on Upwork etc to build out a script for you that will "click" the button to download the file and place it in a named folder on dropbox. Once it's on dropbox you could trigger a Zap to do different things with the file.
@BalazsKovacs- just keep in mind with @PaulKortman that some websites prohibit this sort of thing, so it's worth checking T&Cs of even asking the company... you wouldn't want to get yourself a site ban.
