Integrations / AI Web Scraping
Connect Scrapingant to WhatsApp with an AI agent
Flann turns Scrapingant into something you can message. Ask on WhatsApp, by text or voice note, and Flann does the work in Scrapingant for you. Scrapingant holds data about how your business is doing. Flann turns it into answers you can read on WhatsApp.
7 actions in Scrapingant. All of them only look things up, so nothing in Scrapingant is ever changed. You connect with your API key.
Where Flann saves you time in Scrapingant
Small jobs, repeated often, are where the time goes. Here is how they change once Scrapingant is connected.
Looking up a record mid-conversation
Today
A customer on the phone asks when their membership renews or what they ordered last time. Finding the record in Scrapingant means a laptop, a login and a search screen.
With Flann
“When does Priya Shah’s membership renew? Check Scrapingant.”
Within the chat, Flann searches Scrapingant for the record and replies with the renewal date, plan and last visit. If two records match, it asks which one you mean. Looking up changes nothing, so it happens straight away.
What you stop doing: Opening a laptop to answer a simple customer question is unnecessary now.
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 Scrapingant to check what the gyms near us charge for a monthly membership.”
Using Scrapingant, 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.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Scrapingant
- In Flann, go to Connectors and find Scrapingant.
- Paste your Scrapingant API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Scrapingant account settings.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the Scrapingant action and fills in the details.
Of the 7 Scrapingant actions, 7 only read. The other 0 create, update, send or delete. Disconnect Scrapingant in Connectors whenever you like.
Ways to use Scrapingant with Flann
Check before you decide
Before a big call, ask Flann for the figure that matters. It looks it up in Scrapingant first.
A weekly summary on demand
Ask Flann for the week in brief. It reads Scrapingant and sends the few numbers worth knowing.
Spot what changed
Ask what went up or down. Flann checks Scrapingant and tells you what moved.
Side by side, the two ways of working in Scrapingant:
| Compare | Opening ScrapingantLog in, find it, do it | Scrapingant through FlannAsk and get it done |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started on a job | Log in and click through the screens | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up | By hand, screen by screen | 7 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Your Scrapingant API key, once |
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Everything Flann can do in Scrapingant
Every Scrapingant action Flann can run, split into what it reads and what it changes.
Looks up 7
- Extract Content as Markdown
- Extract Data with AI
- Get API Credits Usage
- Scrape Web Page
- Scrape Webpage via POST
- Scrape Webpage with PUT
- Scrape with Extended JSON Output
Changes 0
None.
More AI Web Scraping apps Flann works with
Common questions
How does Flann connect to Scrapingant?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Scrapingant and paste your Scrapingant API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Scrapingant account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 7 actions in Scrapingant.
Do I need to open Scrapingant to use it with Flann?
No. Once Scrapingant is connected, you ask Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and it does the work in Scrapingant.
Which Flann plan do I need for Scrapingant?
Any of them. Every Flann plan includes Scrapingant and every other app.