Your First Workflow: Open Site & Extract Data
Learn by doing! Create a simple workflow to open a website and extract its title.
Let’s jump right in and build your first automation with Jsonify! This simple workflow will open a specific webpage and extract its title. This demonstrates the core “Open -> Extract” pattern fundamental to many automations.
Steps
1. Create a New Workflow
- Navigate to your Jsonify Dashboard.
- Click the button sequence to create a new workflow: Create an empty workflow ➙ Extract.
- Notice that the created workflow already contains the necessary blocks (
Open Websites
andExtract Data
) for this first example.
Creating a new workflow from the Extract template
2. Configure the Open Websites
Block
- The starting point for this workflow is the
Open Websites
block, which is already on the canvas. - Select the
Open Websites
block to configure it. - In the URL input field, enter the website you want the AI Agent to visit. Let’s use a simple, stable example:
https://example.com
- Ensure the toggle switch next to the URL is ON.
Configuring the Open Websites block with example.com
3. Configure the Extract Data
Block
- Next, we need to tell the agent what to extract. The
Extract Data
block is already placed after theOpen Websites
block on the canvas. - Select the
Extract Data
block to configure it. - We want a single piece of data (the title) for this example, so ensure “A single item” is selected.
- Define the data point you want:
- In the first column, labeled NAME, type
title
. - In the second column, labeled EXAMPLE VALUE OR A LONGER DESCRIPTION, describe what the AI should extract:
Extract the main title of the webpage
.
- In the first column, labeled NAME, type
- (Optional) You could add further clarification in the “Add additional instructions” field below, like:
Extract only the text content of the main page title.
Configuring the Extract Data block for title
4. Run Your Workflow!
- That’s it! Your simple workflow is configured and ready to run.
- Find and click the Run button (located at the top right of the editor).
- Jsonify will assign an AI Agent to open
example.com
and extract its title based on your instructions.
5. Check the Results
- When you manually run the workflow, the editor will automatically redirect you to the page for the current run.
- On this page, results will appear as the AI agent works.
- Once the workflow finishes (it should be very quick for this example), click on “View as sheet”. You should see the extracted data presented in a table, with columns named
title
containing the text “Example Domain” andurl
containing the link to the page where the data was extracted..
Results table showing extracted title 'Example Domain'
Congratulations! You’ve successfully configured and run your first Jsonify workflow using a template. This demonstrates the basic process of navigating to a page and extracting specific information. You can now build upon this foundation to tackle more complex tasks.