If anyone is still looking for a solution, we’ve been working on a Chrome Extension to do just this! You can choose what you want to clip and send that directly into a Zap.
https://www.notion.so/includeai/Learn-how-to-Scrape-data-from-LinkedIn-to-Airtable-Sheets-with-Zapier-7-min-13d9f934658143bb9d1cc861fddeaf94
That’s a genius idea, thanks.
I’m a big Airtable user but have alrgely ignored Blocks since they made a hard split in product developmenbt a couple of years ago when they introduced them. And, alas, I’m not on a Pro plan, which is therefore a shame.
FYI, my source info would be Gmail messages. No uniformity about the content schema; I’d just be selecting fields from hand-written messages and trying to map them to a database like Airtables or some other option. I guess I will need another option since I won’t have access to Blocks, but thanks for this idea, good to know it exists.
Worth saying that I also use Notion, but its web clipper only supports a single field.
UPDATE: Knowledge that Airtable offers its own such clipper as a Block prompted me to think about how it would be possible (for those capable) to use the Airtable API to write a Chrome extension for this. And someone has already done it - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-airtable/gnlfpcbhdipbidmkchkjlleppeijclbj?hl=en I’ve tested a basic addition to Airtable this way and it works, plus it offers more extensive capability re: CSS classes, a bit like you flagged for the official one. I’m going to look further at that. There are also some other Chrome web clippers.
As long as I get records from websites in to Airtable, I can use Zapier.
Thanks.
Hi @robertandrews,
One option to check out is Airtable’s new-ish Web Clipper block: https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036855174-Web-clipper-block. You can only select one block of text and have it added to a record in Airtable, so it may not be quite what you’re looking for.
BUT, you can also use CSS selectors, so if the name/comment/location uses the same CSS selector every time, then this would be a great option. Great examples of what can be done here: https://blog.airtable.com/web-clipper-recipe-contest-the-results-are-in/.
NOTE: that feature is only available on their Pro plan.