This guide shows you how to connect Browse AI with Pabbly Connect to automate your web data extraction workflows. You'll learn how to set up triggers, configure actions, and transform your data for use in other applications.
Prerequisites
Active Browse AI account with at least one approved robot
Pabbly Connect account
Setting up the connection
Create a new workflow
Sign in to your Pabbly Connect dashboard
Click Create workflow
Name your workflow something descriptive (e.g., "Browse AI Product Monitoring")
Configure Browse AI trigger
Select Browse AI as your trigger app
Choose Executed task.
Note: Each workflow starts with a trigger on which the workflow runs, and then the data flows through different actions. Browse AI has an official trigger called Executed Task and two official actions (Bulk Run Tasks, Execute a Task).
Any other triggers and/or actions on the list are created by the Pabbly team and are being deprecated.
Authorize the connection
Click Add new connection
Log in to your Browse AI account to authorize the connection (you should see a success message)
You'll see your list of robots in a dropdown. Choose the one you want to retrieve data from.
Configuring workflow settings
Choose your Event Type
The Event Type you choose will be what triggers the workflow to execute. Select one of these Event Type options:
Change detected in captured data: triggers when captured data changes
Task execution is finished: triggers on any task completion (including if the task was successful, or with an error)
Task execution finished successfully: triggers only on successful tasks
Task execution failed: triggers only on failed tasks
Once you've selected your Event Type, make sure to turn off Simple Response. This is highly recommended to optimize your experience using the integration.
Verify the integration
Verify the webhook connection in your Browse AI robot's Integration tab.
Select Webhooks, and you should see a webhook connected to your Pabbly workflow. From now on, every time you run a task, you'll see your data in the Pabbly workflow.
Execute a test run
Go the Run Task tab for your robot and click on the Run a Task button to send a response to Pabbly Connect. Go back to Pabbly Connect to and you will see that a response has been received.
Transforming scraped data with Pabbly Connect
The advanced data will give you packaged data, on which you can apply iterators, extractors and more.
For transforming the JSON data into data that can be used in other apps:
Select the Data Transformer by Pabbly Action.
Set the Action Event to Line Itemizer
You have to choose the Line items array which was received from the Browse AI. You can search for it by starting to type capture in the search field.
In this case, Task CapturedList PH Number 1 is the array we should select
Once you click on Save & Send Test Request, you will see the values and labels organized as lie items.
With that line item format you could send data to Google Sheets using the Add Multiple Rows Action (for example).
NOTE: For other uses cases and Pabbly Connect apps you may have to use their Iterator instead, to loop through each of the items that the Browse AI trigger delivers. Learn more about that in their help docs.