Integrations / AI Web Scraping
Connect WebScraping.AI to WhatsApp with an AI agent
Flann turns WebScraping.AI into something you can message. Ask on WhatsApp, by text or voice note, and Flann does the work in WebScraping.AI for you. Some of what you need to know sits outside your business: a competitor’s menu, a supplier’s catalogue, the public listings in your area. Through WebScraping.AI, Flann can gather that web data on request and lay it out next to your own figures, so a decision about pricing or stock rests on more than a hunch.
7 actions in WebScraping.AI. All of them only look things up, so nothing in WebScraping.AI is ever changed. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in WebScraping.AI
You do not need the exact wording. These are the kinds of messages Flann turns into WebScraping.AI actions.
“Look up the account usage in WebScraping.AI.”
“Look up the text in WebScraping.AI.”
“Look up the rendered HTML in WebScraping.AI.”
Step by step: WebScraping.AI jobs you can hand to Flann
How a request turns into real WebScraping.AI actions, one step at a time.
Get answers about your texts
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our texts in WebScraping.AI?”
- Flann runs
Get Textin WebScraping.AI and shows you what it found. - Nothing in WebScraping.AI is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your usages from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our usages in WebScraping.AI stand.”
- Flann runs
Get account usage and quotain WebScraping.AI and shows you what it found. - Nothing in WebScraping.AI is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Get answers about your rendered HTMLs
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our rendered HTMLs in WebScraping.AI?”
- Flann runs
Get Rendered HTMLin WebScraping.AI and shows you what it found. - Nothing in WebScraping.AI is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Where Flann saves you time in WebScraping.AI
Small jobs, repeated often, are where the time goes. Here is how they change once WebScraping.AI is connected.
Logging daily readings and counts
Today
Fridge temperatures, stock counts or class attendance have to go into WebScraping.AI every day. They are written on paper first, then typed up when someone remembers.
With Flann
“Fridge one at three degrees, fridge two at four, freezer at minus eighteen. Log it in WebScraping.AI.”
Your message or voice note becomes a row in WebScraping.AI, with the date, time and who logged it, and any reading outside the safe range you have set is flagged to you straight away. Simple.
What you stop doing: Typing up paper logs at the end of the day is no longer needed.
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 WebScraping.AI to check what the gyms near us charge for a monthly membership.”
Using WebScraping.AI, 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 WebScraping.AI
- In Flann, go to Connectors and find WebScraping.AI.
- Paste your WebScraping.AI API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your WebScraping.AI account settings.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the WebScraping.AI action and fills in the details.
Of the 7 WebScraping.AI actions, 7 only read. The other 0 create, update, send or delete. Disconnect WebScraping.AI in Connectors whenever you like.
Ways to use WebScraping.AI with Flann
Check before you decide
Before a big call, ask Flann for the figure that matters. It looks it up in WebScraping.AI first.
A weekly summary on demand
Ask Flann for the week in brief. It reads WebScraping.AI and sends the few numbers worth knowing.
Ask, do not dig
Ask how this week compares to last. Flann pulls the numbers from WebScraping.AI and answers in plain words.
How the same job compares, in WebScraping.AI directly and through Flann.
| Compare | Opening WebScraping.AILog in, find it, do it | WebScraping.AI 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 |
| WebScraping.AI records | All of them, one screen at a time | 5 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Your WebScraping.AI API key, once |
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Everything Flann can do in WebScraping.AI
Every WebScraping.AI action Flann can run, split into what it reads and what it changes.
Looks up 7
- Ask Question About Web Page
- Extract Fields with AI
- Get account usage and quota
- Get Rendered HTML
- Get Selected HTML
- Get Selected Multiple Elements
- Get Text
Changes 0
None.
More AI Web Scraping apps Flann works with
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How does Flann connect to WebScraping.AI?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose WebScraping.AI and paste your WebScraping.AI API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your WebScraping.AI account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 7 actions in WebScraping.AI.
Do I need to open WebScraping.AI to use it with Flann?
No. Once WebScraping.AI is connected, you ask Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and it does the work in WebScraping.AI.
Which Flann plan do I need for WebScraping.AI?
Any of them. Every Flann plan includes WebScraping.AI and every other app.