Integrations / AI Web Scraping
Crawlbase on WhatsApp: manage stored pages with an AI agent
Flann turns Crawlbase into something you can message. Ask on WhatsApp, by text or voice note, and Flann does the work in Crawlbase for you. Reading data never changes it, so Flann answers questions from Crawlbase straight away. Writing is another matter.
8 actions in Crawlbase. 6 only look things up, and 2 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in Crawlbase
You do not need the exact wording. These are the kinds of messages Flann turns into Crawlbase actions.
“Look up the stored page in Crawlbase.”
“Look up the storage count in Crawlbase.”
“Look up the crawling usage in Crawlbase.”
“Delete the stored pages in Crawlbase.”
What Flann can work with in Crawlbase
Crawlbase gives Flann 8 actions across 4 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Stored pages | deletelook up | 4 |
Side by side, the two ways of working in Crawlbase:
| Compare | Crawlbase on its ownEvery step is yours | With FlannThe work comes to your chat |
|---|---|---|
| How you ask | Open the app and find the right page | A WhatsApp message, typed or spoken |
| Finding answers about stored pages | Filters and searches you run yourself | 6 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Making changes | Typed in by hand | 2 changes, made from a message |
| Crawlbase records | All of them, one screen at a time | 4 kinds, from one chat |
| Getting connected | Nothing new to set up | Your Crawlbase API key, once |
YesPartlyNo
Step by step: Crawlbase jobs you can hand to Flann
How a request turns into real Crawlbase actions, one step at a time.
Clean up stored pages you no longer need
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Which stored pages in Crawlbase are out of date? Remove the ones I confirm.”
- Flann runs
List Stored Page IDsin Crawlbase and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Delete Stored Pagesin Crawlbase. - Each removal is confirmed in the chat.
Get answers about your agents
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our agents in Crawlbase?”
- Flann runs
Generate User Agentsin Crawlbase and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Crawlbase is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your crawling usages from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our crawling usages in Crawlbase stand.”
- Flann runs
Get Crawling Usagein Crawlbase and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Crawlbase is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Where Flann saves you time in Crawlbase
Small jobs, repeated often, are where the time goes. Here is how they change once Crawlbase is connected.
Keeping an eye on competitors
Today
Checking what nearby competitors charge means visiting several websites and writing it all down. So it happens once a year, if that.
With Flann
“Use Crawlbase to check what the gyms near us charge for a monthly membership.”
Using Crawlbase, Flann gathers the published membership prices from those gyms’ websites and lays them out next to yours in one short table. It notes the date it checked, since prices change. Nothing on your side changes, and nothing is sent anywhere.
What you stop doing: Visiting competitor websites one by one with a notepad is a thing of the past.
Cleaning up duplicate records
Today
The same customer appears in Crawlbase three times with slightly different spellings. Reports count them separately, and nobody gets round to merging them.
With Flann
“Find duplicate customers in Crawlbase and show me what you’d merge.”
Records in Crawlbase that share a phone number, an email or a close spelling are grouped as likely duplicates.
What you stop doing: Merging duplicate records one by one is no longer on you.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Crawlbase
- Open Connectors in Flann and choose Crawlbase.
- Paste your Crawlbase API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Crawlbase account settings.
- Ask Flann for what you need on WhatsApp, by text or voice note. It picks the right Crawlbase action itself.
Of the 8 Crawlbase actions, 6 only read. The other 2 create, update, send or delete. Disconnect Crawlbase in Connectors whenever you like.
Ways to use Crawlbase with Flann
A weekly summary on demand
Ask Flann for the week in brief. It reads Crawlbase and sends the few numbers worth knowing.
Spot what changed
Ask what went up or down. Flann checks Crawlbase and tells you what moved.
Ask, do not dig
Ask how this week compares to last. Flann pulls the numbers from Crawlbase and answers in plain words.
Everything Flann can do in Crawlbase
Every Crawlbase action Flann can run, split into what it reads and what it changes.
Looks up 6
- Generate User Agents
- Get Crawling Usage
- Get Storage Count
- Get Stored Page
- Get Stored Pages
- List Stored Page IDs
Changes 2
- Crawl URL
- Delete Stored Pages
More AI Web Scraping apps Flann works with
Tableau
XataCommon questions
What can Flann do with stored pages in Crawlbase?
Flann can delete and look up stored pages in Crawlbase, using 4 actions (Delete Stored Pages, Get Stored Page, Get Stored Pages, List Stored Page IDs). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change stored pages in Crawlbase.
How does Flann connect to Crawlbase?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Crawlbase and paste your Crawlbase API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Crawlbase account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 8 actions in Crawlbase.
Do I need to open Crawlbase to use it with Flann?
No. Once Crawlbase is connected, you ask Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and it does the work in Crawlbase.
Does connecting Crawlbase cost extra?
No. Crawlbase is included in every Flann plan, along with every other app Flann connects to.