Build AI automation workflows with Google Opal

Archive Data Scraper Prompt

Article Link Extractor Prompt

Markdown Summarizer Prompt

Creating a Web Scraper to Spreadsheet Workflow

1. Click the 'Create new' button to initialize a blank workspace.
2. Locate the node selection menu and click 'Generate' to create an AI processing node.
3. Click the model dropdown within the Generate node and select 'Gemini 2.5 Flash'.
4. Click into the 'Prompt' text field within the node.
5. Enter the specific scraping instructions (e.g., 'Go to this archive URL... parse each result into a table').
6. Hover over the right edge of the Generate node until a connection point appears.
7. Click and drag a connection line ('noodle') out from the Generate node.
8. Select the 'Save' node from the resulting menu to create a spreadsheet destination.
9. Click the title field (default 'Untitled Opal app') at the top of the screen and rename it to 'Archive Scraper'.
10. Click the 'Start' button to execute the workflow.
11. Wait for the process to complete, then click the Google Sheets link provided in the final node output to view the data.

Building a Dynamic AI Newsletter Workflow

1. Click 'Create new' to start a fresh workflow.
2. Select the 'User Input' node from the menu to allow dynamic URL entry.
3. Type 'Enter URL to scrape articles' into the input label field of the User Input node.
4. Drag a connection line from the User Input node and select a 'Generate' block.
5. In the Generate node, ensure the input is set to receive data from the User Input node.
6. Enter the prompt to extract links: 'Go to this URL and scrape the links to the first five articles.'
7. Drag a connection line from the first Generate node and create a second 'Generate' node.
8. Select 'Gemini 2.5 Flash' as the model for the second Generate node.
9. Enter the summarization prompt instructing the AI to visit each link and format the output in Markdown.
10. Drag a connection line from the second Generate node and select the 'Output' node to finalize the data flow.
11. Click the 'Preview' tab at the top of the interface.
12. Click 'Start'.
13. Paste the target website URL (e.g., TechCrunch) into the prompt field when requested.
14. Click 'Run' to generate the newsletter content.