Integrations / AI Web Scraping
Connect Serper to WhatsApp with an AI agent
Flann turns Serper into something you can message. Ask on WhatsApp, by text or voice note, and Flann does the work in Serper for you. Reading data never changes it, so Flann answers questions from Serper straight away. Writing is another matter.
11 actions in Serper. All of them only look things up, so nothing in Serper is ever changed. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in Serper
You do not need the exact wording. These are the kinds of messages Flann turns into Serper actions.
“Find images in Serper.”
“Show me my place reviews in Serper.”
“Find maps in Serper.”
Step by step: Serper jobs you can hand to Flann
How a request turns into real Serper actions, one step at a time.
Get answers about your images
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our images in Serper?”
- Flann runs
Search Imagesin Serper and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Serper is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your locations from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our locations in Serper stand.”
- Flann runs
List Locationsin Serper and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Serper is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Get answers about your place reviews
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our place reviews in Serper?”
- Flann runs
List Place Reviewsin Serper and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Serper is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Where Flann saves you time in Serper
Small jobs, repeated often, are where the time goes. Here is how they change once Serper is connected.
Spotting a sudden change early
Today
Drops in bookings or jumps in returns can go unnoticed for days in Serper. You find out when the month closes, too late to do much.
With Flann
“Has anything in Serper moved unusually this week?”
Scanning Serper for figures that broke from their usual pattern, Flann lists the ones that moved most and suggests a likely cause where the data points to one. You can ask it to check every morning. Reading is instant, and no changes are made.
What you stop doing: Finding problems weeks late in the monthly figures no longer happens.
Cleaning up duplicate records
Today
The same customer appears in Serper three times with slightly different spellings. Reports count them separately, and nobody gets round to merging them.
With Flann
“Find duplicate customers in Serper and show me what you’d merge.”
Records in Serper 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 Serper
- Open Connectors in Flann and choose Serper.
- Paste your Serper API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Serper account settings.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the Serper action and fills in the details.
Of the 11 Serper actions, 11 only read. The other 0 create, update, send or delete. Disconnect Serper in Connectors whenever you like.
Ways to use Serper with Flann
Spot what changed
Ask what went up or down. Flann checks Serper and tells you what moved.
Check before you decide
Before a big call, ask Flann for the figure that matters. It looks it up in Serper first.
A weekly summary on demand
Ask Flann for the week in brief. It reads Serper and sends the few numbers worth knowing.
Here is what changes when Serper goes through Flann instead of its own screens.
| Compare | Serper on its ownEvery step is yours | With FlannThe work comes to your chat |
|---|---|---|
| How you ask | Log in and click through the screens | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up | By hand, screen by screen | 11 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Serper records | All of them, one screen at a time | 9 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Your Serper API key, once |
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Everything Flann can do in Serper
Every Serper action Flann can run, split into what it reads and what it changes.
Looks up 11
- Batch Search the Web
- Get Search Suggestions
- List Locations
- List Place Reviews
- Scrape Webpage
- Search Images
- Search Maps
- Search News
- Search Scholar
- Search Shopping
- Search the Web
Changes 0
None.
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How does Flann connect to Serper?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Serper and paste your Serper API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Serper account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 11 actions in Serper.
Do I need to open Serper to use it with Flann?
No. Once Serper is connected, you ask Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and it does the work in Serper.
Does connecting Serper cost extra?
No. Serper is included in every Flann plan, along with every other app Flann connects to.