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AI Scraper by Parsera Make integrationAutomate AI Scraper by Parsera with Make.

Scraping a page can run on a clock, without a line of code. The AI Scraper by Parsera Make integration gives you 7 modules, the bricks you drop into a scenario, the automation you build in Make. This page walks through each one and gets your first read working.

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What you can automate

What does the AI Scraper by Parsera Make integration actually do?

It links your AI Scraper by Parsera account to Make so a scenario can read a web page and pass the data on. All 7 modules are actions, which is the thing to know before you start: none of them watches a site for you. The read happens when you decide, on a clock, or because a trigger, the module that opens a scenario, fired in another app.

Three jobs cover most of what gets built here. A price sheet that keeps itself current: Extract Data From a URL reads a product page every time the scenario runs, and the module you put after it writes the result wherever you keep your figures. A site that resists a plain read: Scrape a Website with Agent hands the page to an agent prepared in advance, for the layouts where a direct fetch comes back half empty. HTML that arrived without a link: Parse an HTML Content takes the code of a page you already hold, in an email body or in a field another module filled, and returns the same kind of sorted data.

What Make will not do for you here is watch a site. The app ships no trigger, so a scenario built on these modules always starts from something else: the clock on its first module, or an event in another app. Worth knowing too, the Make documentation page for this app is generated automatically and says so, which means field names and the exact shape of each answer are things to confirm in the editor rather than trust on paper. Three of the seven modules carry no description at all.

The same app exists as a node in n8n, so the choice is about where the rest of your automations live rather than about this integration. The n8n vs Make comparison lays out the criteria, the AI Scraper by Parsera n8n integration page covers the other side, and Make training is there if scenarios are new to you.

Connect

How do you connect AI Scraper by Parsera to Make?

  1. 01

    Copy your API key first

    Open your AI Scraper by Parsera account, go to the API section of the dashboard and copy the key displayed there. Doing it before you switch to Make saves a round trip, because that key is exactly what the connection window asks for.

  2. 02

    Add a module, then click Create a connection

    In your scenario, drop any AI Scraper by Parsera module on the canvas and click Create a connection. A connection is your account linked to Make once, reused by every module of the app, and you set it up from the module itself rather than from a separate settings page.

  3. 03

    Name it, paste the credentials, validate

    The Connection name field is optional. Fill it anyway when several Parsera accounts run in the same workspace, so the scenario says which one it uses. Then paste the credentials you copied, or follow what the window asks for, and confirm.

First scenario

Your first scenario, from blank canvas to switched on

GoalAt the hour you choose, Make reads the pages you watch with AI Scraper by Parsera and hands their data to the rest of the chain.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    From the Scenarios page, start a new scenario and click the + to place the first module. Search the app by name and pick Extract Data From a URL.

  2. 02

    Link your account

    Click Create a connection, paste the key from the API section of your Parsera dashboard, and validate. Every other module of the app will reuse this same connection.

  3. 03

    Fill the module, then add the second one

    Enter the address of the page you want read, click the + on the right of the module and add Scrape a Website with Agent for a site that a plain read leaves half empty.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once. The scenario executes one time and each module shows the bundles it received, meaning the items that travel from one module to the next. Read them before you build anything on top.

  5. 05

    Set the clock and switch it on

    Open the scheduling on the first module, the clock that sets the pace. A new scenario runs every 15 minutes by default, so stretch it to whatever your watch really needs, then flip the scenario on.

Modules

What each AI Scraper by Parsera module does

AI Scraper by Parsera gives you 7 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

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Extract Data From a URL

Action

In Make“Extracts structured data from a webpage using a URL.”

Give it the address of a page and it comes back with the content already split into fields, ready for the next module. Most scenarios start here.

When to use it
a product page, a listing or a public profile you want to read again and again without opening a browser.
Watch out
the read happens when the scenario runs, so what you get is the page as it stood at that moment.
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Make an API Call

Action

In Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.”

Think of it as the escape hatch when the six other modules do not cover what you need. It calls any endpoint of the AI Scraper by Parsera API with the connection already in place.

When to use it
a feature you can see in your Parsera account that has no module of its own yet.
Watch out
you write the call yourself here, so keep the app documentation open while you fill the fields.
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Parse an HTML Content

Action

In Make“Parses structured data from raw HTML content.”

Feed it raw HTML, the code sitting behind a page, and it hands back sorted data. Useful when the content already reached your scenario as text and there is no link to point at.

When to use it
an email body, a form field or a file produced by an earlier module.
Watch out
the documentation stops at that description, so field names and the shape of the answer get confirmed with Run once.
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Scrape a Website with Agent

Action

In Make“Scrape a webpage with pre-configured agent”

Same work as the URL read, handed to an agent configured beforehand instead of a direct request. The Make directory says nothing more than that.

When to use it
a site where the simple read comes back empty or incomplete, and where an agent has already been prepared for it.
Watch out
the module expects an agent that exists, it does not build one for you.
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Parse HTML

ActionIn the docs only

Make lists a second entry with almost the same name as Parse an HTML Content, and this one arrives with no description at all in the directory. The name is everything that gets published about it.

When to use it
after you have run both on the same HTML with Run once and kept the output that suits your scenario.
Watch out
two close names do not promise two identical behaviours.
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Run Existing Scraper

ActionIn the docs only

The name points at a scraper already built on the AI Scraper by Parsera side, launched from the scenario instead of by hand. No description was published, so the name stays the only clue.

When to use it
when the extraction was tuned once in Parsera and Make only has to press the button on a regular basis.
Watch out
look at what the bundle contains before you wire fields into the modules after it.
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Scrape URL

ActionIn the docs only

It carries the shortest name in the list, and the directory leaves it there: an address goes in, something comes out, with nothing written about the shape of the result.

When to use it
as a second attempt, compared with Extract Data From a URL on the same page, keeping whichever gives the cleaner result.
Watch out
nothing promises the two return the same fields, so avoid swapping them in a scenario that already works.
Need help

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FAQ

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01Is the AI Scraper by Parsera Make integration free?
Yes on the Make side. This is a standard app, so it works from the Free plan with the limits that come with it: 2 active scenarios, a minimum of 15 minutes between two scheduled runs, 5 minutes of execution per run, files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of transfer. Every execution of a module counts as one operation on your plan. Paid plans bring the interval down to 1 minute, lift the cap on active scenarios and allow 40 minutes of execution. The Parsera account itself is a separate subscription, handled on their side.
02What do you need to connect AI Scraper by Parsera to Make?
Two things: an active AI Scraper by Parsera account and the API key that goes with it. The key sits in the API section of your account dashboard and you copy it from the screen. On the Make side there is nothing to install. You place a module in a scenario, click Create a connection, name the connection if you want to, and paste the credentials. The connection gets created once and every module of the app reuses it, so the next scenario has nothing to redo.
03Does the trigger react in real time?
No, and it is not a question of delay: this app has no trigger module at all. Not a scheduled one, where Make checks at a set interval, and not an instant one, where the app calls Make the moment something happens. Nothing here fires on its own. You start the read yourself, with the clock on the first module of the scenario, set to every 15 minutes in a new scenario, with a trigger from another app, or with a Make webhook, the address an outside service calls to wake the scenario up.
04What if the module you need is missing?
Make an API Call covers that gap. It calls any endpoint of the AI Scraper by Parsera API from inside your scenario, with the connection you already created, so a feature the six other modules do not expose stays within reach. It is also the honest answer when the documentation goes quiet: three modules arrive without a description, and the Make page for this app is generated automatically, with a warning about possible mistakes. One Run once teaches you more than the page does.
05Make or n8n for this app?
It depends on where your other automations already run. The same app exists on both sides, so it rarely settles the debate on its own. What settles it is the rest of the chain: the tools you connect after the read, the people who will open the editor, and the plan you already pay for. On Make you get the 7 modules listed above, one connection shared by all of them, and the clock sitting on the first module. Try one read on each side before you move anything.
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