Automation Workshop includes the Get Webpage Content Action for retrieving live data from websites, online services, and API endpoints. It provides a flexible way to collect webpage content, API responses, status codes, headers, and other response details directly within an automated workflow.
Use Get Webpage Content Action to monitor websites, read structured data, verify server responses, collect online information, or prepare retrieved content for reports, notifications, files, conditions, and other automated processing. Request behavior can be customized with headers, cookies, query parameters, authentication, flow control, and Internet & Web Profiles.
Features & highlights
- Pull live webpage data from websites and online services with full control over headers, cookies, parameters, authentication, and connection behavior, including bandwidth throttling and request limits through Internet & Web Profiles.
- Retrieve webpage content from websites, online services, and API endpoints.
- Collect HTML, plain text, JSON, XML, CSV, and other web-based content.
- Access response details such as status code, response headers, final URL, content size, and timing information.
- Store returned webpage content and response data in variables for use in later workflow steps.
Usage examples
- Check whether a webpage, API endpoint, or online service is available and returning the expected response.
- Retrieve JSON, XML, HTML, plain text, CSV, or other web content for further processing.
- Read status codes and headers to verify server behavior, redirects, content type, cache state, or authentication results.
- Use returned webpage content in reports, notifications, logs, file operations, or conditional workflow logic.
- Monitor website content, API responses, feeds, dashboards, or online data sources on a schedule.
Documentation
- Request · Enter the webpage URL or API endpoint and choose how the request is sent.
- Headers · Add custom request headers for content negotiation, API access, caching, language, user agent, and other request details.
- Cookies · Provide cookies used for sessions, preferences, authentication, or server-side state.
- Params · Add query parameters to the request URL without manually editing the full address.
- Flow · Configure response waiting, timeout behavior, response code handling, and workflow continuation rules.
- Extras · Fine-tune optional webpage retrieval details, including highly specific request, response, and processing behavior.
- Options · Access the full Action configuration, including state, display name, error handling, logging behavior, and other advanced options.
Interconnect
- Get Webpage Content integration—with Variables (manipulate data dynamically within a workflow) and Events (recorded entries that detail system activity).
- Streamline your automation processes by visually connecting your workflow using Variable Wizard—a powerful tool to access all 1,000+ variables—system, network, Triggers, Actions, globals, web, and much more…
Quick access
To streamline your workflow creation, you can locate the Get Webpage Content Action throughout Automation Workshop's search tools—including the knowledge base, menu, and Add Action feature—using quick shortcuts like «GWC», «GWP», or «WPC».
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