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I keep hearing from our customers that Zapier has shipped some of the most interesting agentic behaviors out there. Our customers want to have Zapier Central navigate to a website, scrape the content, and send the data to an app like Google Docs. For most people, this feels like science fiction, but this is live today. With Central, you can easily have your agents search Google or go to any website, scrape its contents, and take screenshots. You can do this in real time in your Chrome browser or while you sleep. You can also use our 7,000+ app integrations and automatically integrate the data into your workflows. So next time you’re heading to a conference and need a list of the attendees in advance or are looking for a way to automatically create an advanced leads list, there’s Central. Try Zapier Central for free today. zapier.com/central. Let me know what you think! CC: Harrison Jackson who led the charge here.
Quick genuine question andrew: Zapier is no doubt amazing and necessary. But is it a transitory product towards a more digitised efficient world or is it something that will the backbone of most businesses flows? Should AI not be able to connect APIs seamlessly in a near future so zapier is not necessary?
Very promising!
This is incredibly cool - is it possible to set up this type of web scraping as an action? I see it used a function "fetchAsBrowser" to scrape the site - we have been using a code step to pull HTML from a webpage and analyze the contents that way for large groups of URLs - wondering if it is working in a similar way here.
The chrome extension is a great way to do this too. You can prototype a behavior while browsing the website yourself and then switch to the bot running in the background based on a schedule or any Zapier trigger. 🙌
Zapier this is a huge deal. Definitely will try this one soon
D Sharma
5d
this is so easy but so powerful!
Feels so big to start. What's a good first step to take into Zapier Central?
James Pham
5d
This is awesome. We can use this for a lot of manual tasks we are doing currently for leads gen!
Interesting! Do you feel the line between RPA and connectors will get very blurry in the age of AI agents? How do you think of this category?
Executive, entrepreneur and investor.
5dCrawl never scrape ;)