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Create Airtable Bank of News from Slack Channels

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November 16, 2025

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DESCRIPTION

Overview

This flow automates the extraction of relevant news shared within Slack channels, scrapes content from linked websites, and summarizes the gathered information into Airtable.

Value Proposition

This automation enables teams to effortlessly capture and organize important news items without manually sifting through Slack messages or external websites. It saves time, ensures key information is recorded, and provides easy access to summarized insights.

When to Use

Ideal for organizations that actively share news links in Slack and want to centralize and condense that content for reporting or reference. Typically triggered by new messages in specific Slack channels.

Integrations

  • Slack: Monitors message updates, extracts news-related posts.
  • Web Scraper: Visits URLs shared in Slack to scrape the website content.
  • Airtable: Stores summarized content for easy access and management.

Output

A detailed summary of extracted news articles stored as organized records in Airtable, facilitating efficient information retrieval and team collaboration.

HOW DO YOU SET THIS UP?

1.

Configure Slack Channel

Specify the Slack channel(s) from which the flow should extract news messages in the Slack integration node.

2.

Set Web Scraper Parameters

Define the scraping rules or selectors needed to extract relevant content from the linked websites in the Web Scraper node.

3.

Connect Airtable Base and Table

Enter the Airtable base ID and target table name where summarized news records should be saved in the Airtable integration node.