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Help please...I am a beginner and have a need for a specific zap

  • 18 December 2020
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I want the zap to go in every Thursday morning and extract one link from a website. This particular website updates every Thursday morning with one new link. That link is what I want to have searched in Google sheets and then into an auto email that goes to a specific list of recipients. 

I know how to set up the auto schedule, the google sheets zaps and client lists. It is the actual nabbing of the updated link weekly I would like automated. 

 

the link is the same every week with the exception of the date. The date updates every week to the next Thursday on the calendar. 

 

Example: http://www.example.com/nailpolishtips/12_7_2020     This is a made up link, but the point is to show that only the date at the end is what will be different each week. 

 

thank you.

 

 


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For the Zap trigger step, if you use the Schedule by Zapier app, then it will return these data points, which can be used to dynamically construct the link.

https://urlgoeshere.com/[month]_[day]_[year]

 

 

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Constructing a dynamic link would look like this (combo of static and dynamic values in your case)

 

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Action: GSheets - Lookup Row

 

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@kelly 
Just checking in to see if you still need help with this? 

Troy, 

What does “dynamically construct the link mean? How do I do that? I had utilized the scheduling app and put Thursday at 7 a.m. but then what? How/Where do I say “go here and grab this” ? 

Sorry I am a little lame...