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This addition enables your bots to make direct API requests during conversations, opening up countless possibilities for integration and automation.\n\nIn case you missed the previous days, here's the links:\n- Day 1: [Zapier Power-up](\u002Fblog\u002Flaunch-week-01-zapier-ai-actions?previews=true)\n- Day 2: [Notion Power-ups](\u002Fblog\u002Fnotion-power-ups-launch-week-01-day-2?previews=true)\n- Day 3: [Talk to a human & send email](\u002Fblog\u002Flaunch-week-day-3-talk-to-a-human-and-send-email?previews=true)\n- Day 4: [Google search & Browser Page](\u002Fblog\u002Flaunch-week-day-4-browse-and-google-search?previews=true)\n\n## Day 5: Use API\n\nThe easiest way to see what the API power-up can do, is to check out the video below, where we integrate a bot with a holiday property search API.\n\n{% youtube  id=\"ofQbS2u73Uo\" \u002F%}\n\nIf you don't have time for the video to watch the video, that's cool; read on below to see how it works. \n\n### How does it work?\n\nIntegrating the \"Use API\" power-up means configuring your bot to interact with chosen APIs—defining endpoints, parameters, and authentication methods as needed. While this setup demands some technical know-how, it rewards you with highly personalised and powerful bot functionalities.\n\nAfter creating the API power-up, you can configure its settings. One of the most critical aspects of this is defining its arguments. The bot will collect and use these bits of data when it calls the power-up. You define these by creating a JSON schema like the one below, where you define each argument type and give it a description so the bot knows what it is:\n\n![Xnapper-2024-04-10-10.19.01.jpg](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1712740917\u002FXnapper_2024_04_10_10_19_01_efe5dc977b.jpg)\n\nOnce you define these arguments, they can be used to build out other parts of your API request. For example, you can use them in your URL, and they will be dynamically replaced when the power-up is called. In the example below, we use them in the POST request body:\n\n![Xnapper-2024-04-08-19.56.43.webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1712741048\u002FXnapper_2024_04_08_19_56_43_3804a432c3.webp)\n\nWhen the power-up is used, the values such as \"\u003Cguests>\" will replaced with the value collected by the bot. \n\nAnd here's the above power-up being used in a conversation:\n\n![Xnapper-2024-04-08-19.54.57.webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1712602543\u002FXnapper_2024_04_08_19_54_57_a815ff14e4.webp)\n\n## Getting started\nBefore you start with the API power-up, we recommend you look at our general Power-ups documentation here: [Power-up basics](\u002Fdocs\u002Fpower-up-basics&previews=true).\n\nOnce you are happy with the basics of Power-ups, take a look at our dedicated docs here: [Use API Power-up](\u002Fdocs\u002Fuse-api-power-up?previews=true)\n\n## Our first launch week\nI can't believe our first launch week is complete! What a ride it's been!\n\nWe can't wait to see what you all build using power-ups, and we are excited to improve and build upon the feature in the coming months. What we have released this week is really the MVP of our vision for power-ups, and we have so much more planned. \n\nNow that we have this foundation, we can really get cracking on making it awesome. When combined with the continuous improvement of the underlying AI models, we can see this becoming hugely powerful.\n\n### What's next for Power-ups?\n\nThe obvious answer is more power-ups. We have a huge list of power-ups we would like to build, and we are excited to hear any suggestions our community might have on the ones that would be most useful to them. \n\n#### Client-side power-ups\n\nIn addition to new power-ups, we are really excited about the possibility of client-side power-ups. This feature would let you define power-ups that the Chat Thing widget can use on your site and then run on the client side. \n\nThis would allow site owners to create co-pilot-style bots that could do things like adding products to a user's basket and loads more!\n\n## Power-ups hackathon\n\nTo celebrate the end of our Power-ups Launch Week, we are running a Power-ups Hackathon with the opportunity for the winner to win $500! 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Yours can book the meeting, update the CRM, post the Slack message, and send the follow-up, all in one conversation.\n\nThat's what the Zapier power-up unlocks. Your Chat Thing agent stops being a question-and-answer widget and starts doing the work your team would normally click through a dozen tabs to finish.\n\n> ⭐ **Available on paid plans.** The Zapier power-up is part of Chat Thing's paid tiers. Free plan users will need to upgrade to connect it.\n\n## What the Zapier power-up does\n\nThe Zapier power-up plugs your agent into Zapier, which connects to over 8,000 apps, including Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Stripe, Mailchimp, Airtable, and thousands more.\n\nWhen a visitor asks your agent to do something, the agent picks the right Zapier action, fills in the details, and fires it. No code. No separate workflow builder. Your agent is the trigger.\n\n## What you can build: 5 starter ideas\n\n| Agent type | Someone says... | Your agent does... |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Meeting scheduler** | \"Book a call with Sarah next Tuesday at 2pm\" | Creates a Google Calendar event and emails the invite |\n| **Lead capture** | \"I'd like a demo, here's my email\" | Adds the lead to your CRM or Google Sheet |\n| **Internal ops** | \"Post the release notes to #product-updates\" | Sends a formatted Slack message to the channel |\n| **Support triage** | \"Find the invoice for john@example.com\" | Searches Stripe and returns the link |\n| **Content publishing** | \"Add this topic to the content backlog\" | Creates a new row in an Airtable or Notion database |\n\nThose are starting points, not a ceiling. If Zapier connects to an app, your agent can probably do something useful with it.\n\n## One message. Three automations. Zero clicks.\n\nHere's what makes this different from traditional automation.\n\nTraditional automation is trigger-based: \"when X happens, do Y.\" Rigid. Pre-defined. You spend the weekend wiring Zaps and hoping you covered every path.\n\nWith the Zapier power-up, your agent decides which actions to fire based on what the visitor actually says. So a single sentence can trigger several actions in the right order.\n\nVisitor: *\"Schedule a follow-up with this customer in 3 days, add them to our VIP list, and ping me on Slack when it's done.\"*\n\nYour agent:\n\n1. Creates a Google Calendar event for 3 days from today.\n2. Adds the customer to the VIP tag in HubSpot.\n3. Posts a confirmation to your #sales channel.\n\nOne sentence in. Three actions out. The agent picked the right tools and the right order because it understood the intent, not just the trigger.\n\n## Setup in 4 steps\n\n1. In your Chat Thing dashboard, open your agent and go to the **Power-ups** tab.\n2. Add the **Zapier** power-up.\n3. Follow the in-app flow to connect your Zapier account and pick the actions you want your agent to use (Calendar, Slack, CRM, etc.).\n4. Give each action a short, specific description so the agent knows when to fire it. Save.\n\nOnce it's connected, chat to your agent like normal. If a request matches one of your enabled actions, the agent will use it.\n\n## Pair it with your other power-ups\n\nThe Zapier power-up gets more interesting when you chain it with the rest of your agent's toolkit.\n\n- **Web browsing + Zapier:** \"Search for the latest AI news and post the top three links to #research.\"\n- **Notion + Zapier:** \"Pull the Q2 roadmap from Notion and send a summary to the exec Slack channel.\"\n- **Human handoff + Zapier:** agent captures the lead, adds them to the CRM, then escalates the live conversation to a human.\n\nOne request. Multiple tools. Zero dashboards opened.\n\n## FAQ\n\n**Do I need a paid Zapier account?**\nYou'll need a Zapier account. Zapier's free tier covers light usage; higher volume or multi-step flows typically need a paid Zapier plan. Your Zapier usage is billed by Zapier, separate from your Chat Thing subscription.\n\n**How does my agent know when to use a Zapier action?**\nEach action has a description you write during setup. The agent uses that description, plus the context of the conversation, to decide when to fire it. Keep descriptions specific. \"Book a meeting on Sarah's calendar\" works better than \"do calendar stuff.\"\n\n**What happens if a Zap fails?**\nThe agent surfaces the error from Zapier and can retry or fall back depending on how you've configured the action. You can also check runs directly in your Zapier history.\n\n**Can I limit which actions the agent can trigger?**\nYes. Only the actions you explicitly enable for each agent are callable. Anything you haven't enabled is off-limits.\n\n**Does the agent need approval before firing an action?**\nYou can configure confirmation prompts in the power-up settings for anything high-stakes, so the agent asks the user (or you) before firing.\n\n## Ready to automate the boring parts?\n\nOpen your Chat Thing dashboard, head to the **Power-ups** tab on any agent, and add the Zapier integration. Pick three or four actions you'd use every day and let your agent take it from there.\n\n[**Start free and upgrade when you're ready →**](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fpricing?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=zapier)\n\n📚 [**Read the full guide in our documentation**](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fzapier-power-up?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=zapier)\n","Connect your Chat Thing agent to 8,000+ apps with Zapier. 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This one's a bit different.. it's about the stuff happening quietly in the background that you'll never actually see. Stick with me though, because it matters more than you'd think.\n\nThis month we rebuilt the engine room of Chat Thing. Not the bit you log into, but the part doing all the heavy lifting behind the scenes.. crawling your website, syncing your content from Notion, Google Drive and the rest, generating your analytics, sending your emails, running your agents' tasks. All of that runs on a separate system, and we tore it down and rebuilt it from scratch.\n\nI know, \"we rebuilt some backend plumbing\" isn't exactly a thrilling headline! But here's what it actually means for you.\n\n## Faster, in the way that counts\n\nThe honest truth is that the old system was built on different foundations to the rest of Chat Thing. 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They ask their question. Your agent answers. They leave.\n\nYou never find out who they were. They might have been your ideal customer. They might have been ready to buy. You will never know, because nothing asked.\n\nThat changes today.\n\n![The visitor-facing pre-chat form rendered on a bot page, with intro copy above the fields](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1777051094\u002Fdocs\u002Fprechat-form-visitor.png)\n\n### Meet your visitors before the first message\n\nLead Capture shows a short form to visitors before the chat opens. They fill in their name and email, or whatever your team actually needs to know, and then the conversation starts.\n\nBy the time they send their first message, you already know who they are.\n\n{% youtube id=\"ygNJiEvskZ4\" \u002F%}\n\n### Your team knows who called\n\nEvery form submission is saved to the conversation. 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Launch Week: Day 4 - Browse & Google Search","**Continuing with our exciting week of new features, today we spotlight two enhancements that extend your bots' abilities to interact with and retrieve information from the internet. Introducing the Browse Webpage Power-Up and the Google Search Power-Up for Day 4.**\n\nBefore we get going, in case you missed the previous days, here are the links:\n- Day 1: [Zapier Power-up](\u002Fblog\u002Flaunch-week-01-zapier-ai-actions)\n- Day 2: [Notion Power-ups](\u002Fblog\u002Fnotion-power-ups-launch-week-01-day-2)\n- Day 3: [Talk to a human & send email](\u002Fblog\u002Flaunch-week-day-3-talk-to-a-human-and-send-email)\n\n## Day 4: Browse & Google Search\n\nThese new power-ups allow your bots to directly access and utilise web content in conversations, providing more dynamic and informative interactions.\n\nThe easiest way to see what these new power-ups can do, is by watching the video below:\n\n{% youtube  id=\"vBwA8qx31_s\" \u002F%}\n\nIf you don't have time to watch the video, don't worry. We've got you covered; read below for an overview of how they work.\n\n## Browse Webpage Power-Up\nThis feature lets your bot visit specific URLs during conversations, allowing it to fetch and relay live data from web pages. Whether it's updating users with the latest news, checking stock levels, or gathering specific information from predefined sites, the Browse Webpage Power-Up equips your bot with the capability to bring web content right into the chat.\n\n## Google Search Power-Up\nThis power-up enhances your bot's ability to find and provide relevant information quickly and efficiently by incorporating the ability to perform Google searches. It's especially useful for answering more complex queries or when your bot needs to pull in external data to assist users.\n\n## A powerful combination\nWe decided to launch these two power-ups together because they are even more useful when you combine them. \n\nHere's an example of a surf forecast bot we created. \n\n![Surf forecast bot](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1712747221\u002FXnapper_2024_04_10_12_04_55_ed833c445e.webp)\n\nWhen you ask it about a specific location, it first uses the Google search power-up with the site set to surfline.com to find the Surfline surf report page for that location. \n\nOnce it has it, it then uses the browse web page power-up to visit the page and get the current forecast! Pretty cool! \n\nRemember that all power-ups work in all our channels, too, so you could easily use this same bot in WhatsApp or one of the other channels!\n\n\n## Getting started\nBefore you start with these two power-ups, we recommend you look at our general power-up documentation here: [Power-up basics](\u002Fdocs\u002Fpower-up-basics).\n\nOnce you are happy with the basics of Power-ups, take a look at our dedicated docs here: [Google Search Power-up](\u002Fdocs\u002Fgoogle-search-power-up) & [Browse Webpage Power-up](\u002Fdocs\u002Fbrowse-webpage-power-up)\n\n## What's Next?\nWe're still going! Power-Ups Launch Week still has one more day in store, and trust us, it's a good one! Keep your eye out for our final day of announcements tomorrow, when we will release the final launch week power-up.\n","Introducing the Browse Webpage Power-Up and the Google Search Power-Up for Day 4.","launch-week-day-4-browse-and-google-search","2024-04-06T13:04:48.443Z","2025-06-03T08:28:49.233Z","2024-04-25T07:10:45.488Z","o74o4ziy6nmskv1423sc2aqt",{"id":444,"Title":445,"Content":446,"Description":447,"Category":10,"slug":448,"createdAt":449,"updatedAt":450,"publishedAt":451,"readTime":15,"documentId":452},17,"Creating an AI-Enhanced Bookmarking Buddy with Notion","## Creating the Ultimate AI-Enhanced Bookmarking Buddy with Notion\n\nIf you are anything like us, you are constantly finding and bookmarking content on the internet. \n\nMany well-known apps, such as Pocket, Raindrop.io, and Evernote, help with this, but none of them are perfect or as customisable as we'd like. \n\nWe often add bookmarks only for them to be lost under the ever-increasing pile of new links. Sometimes, we remember something we added weeks later and can no longer find it, and things are not categorised as well as they could be. \n\nAll of these little issues got us thinking. Could we build an AI-powered bookmark bot using Chat Thing and Notion? Well, we've done just that, and it's pretty awesome! \n\nRead on to find out how to create something similar in about 5 minutes!\n \nSo, how will our AI bookmark manager bot work, and what will it do? \n\nIt's pretty simple: open up the bot and paste it into the link whenever you find something interesting online. The bot will gather info on the link and save it into your Notion database. On top of that, the bot will do some beneficial things:\n* Automatically assign the type of bookmark, e.g. \"Website\", \"Image\", \"Video\", \"Tweet\", etc\n* Automatically categorise it. E.g. \"Personal\", \"Health\", \"Finance\", \"Food\", \"Home\", etc\n* Visit the link and generate a summary description with AI\n* We can ask questions about the bookmarks we've added. Eg. \"What have I added this week?\", \"What podcasts have I added\".\n\nIf you are more of a visual learner you can watch this tutorial below:\n{% youtube id=\"oK-9VlyjTbk\" \u002F%}\n\n### Creating a Notion database for your AI bookmarking tool\n\nBefore we create the bookmarking bot in Chat Thing, you will need to create a database in Notion. If you want to copy ours, you can duplicate a template [here](https:\u002F\u002Fpixelhop.notion.site\u002FAI-Bookmarks-44633af02124479c8954a6e3ea59d77b?pvs=4).\n\nHere's what our Notion database looks like:\n\n![ai-notion-bookmarks](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1717620994\u002FScreenshot_2024_06_05_at_21_56_11_b8833c2c80.png)\n\nThe database is relatively simple and we added the following properties:\n\n* Name - A name for the bookmark.\n* Created time - When was it added.\n* URL - The URL we are bookmarking.\n* Type - The type of bookmark (Article, Image, File, Tweet, Video, Website, Podcast).\n* Category - The category (Food, Health, Personal, Other, Home, Finance, Business, Development, Design).\n* Description - The summary description of the bookmark content.\n\nYou could add more properties here, but this should provide a nice start.\n\n### Creating the AI bookmark bot with Chat Thing\n\nNow that your Notion database is ready, it's time to create your bot on Chat Thing. Creating the bot shouldn't take more than 5 minutes, and there are a few steps we will need to complete to get it to work.\n\n#### Writing your prompt\n\nFirst, we need to create a custom system message that will give our bot instructions on how to act. After making the new bot, we need to go to its general settings so we can add a custom prompt. \n\nYou will need to uncheck \"Use our default prompt\" and then update the system message field with the following:\n\n>You are a helpful and friendly bookmarking who receives links, investigates them and then based on what you find out, categorises them and saves them into a Notion database.\nWhenever you receive a link, use your browse web function to attempt to get more info on it so you can categorise it better. You can also use the Google search tool to do the same. Don't worry if you can't get any more data, do your best with the info you have, or ask questions about what the link is if that helps.\n\nHere, we give the bot a role and instructions on what it should do when receiving a link. \n\n![Xnapper June 19.webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718801275\u002FXnapper_June_19_3ffd67233e.webp)\n\n#### Choosing the model\n\nOur bot will need to use power-ups to browse the web and interact with Notion, so you must choose a model that supports tool calling and power-ups. You can do this in the advanced model section. We went with GPT-4o for the best balance of power and cost for this demo. \n\n![Xnapper June 19 (1).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718801490\u002FXnapper_June_19_1_636d04cdeb.webp)\n\n#### Adding the required power-ups\n\nNext we need to add a few power-ups to our bot. This will allow the bot to visit any link we give it so it can gather info on it and automatically categorise it, etc. \n\nAfter that, we will add a few power-ups to enable the bot to save and read items from our Notion bookmarks database.\n\nLet's add the Browse web page power-up first. Go to your bot settings, then the Power-ups tab, then a new power-up, select \"Browse webpage\", and click Create. \n\nYou should then see the Browse webpage settings screen, as shown below. We don't need to change anything here, so just save it and get ready to add the next power-up.\n\n![Xnapper June 19 (2).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718804150\u002FXnapper_June_19_2_e8fdd2a149.webp)\n\nNext, let's add the Google search power-up. This can be used as an additional way for the bot to get information on a link. Again, add the power-up and leave the default settings.\n\n![Xnapper June 19 (3).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718805854\u002FXnapper_June_19_3_62712cc3ca.webp)\n\nNow, we can move on to adding the Notion power-ups. First, let's add a \"Save to Notion database\" power-up. Once you have added the power-up, the first thing you need to do is select your Notion bookmarks database. \n\nAfter that, I updated the power-up name to \"Update bookmarks\" and the description to \"Save and update bookmark items in a Notion database, categorising them by type and category.\". **Remember the description is the most important part and should describe what the power-up does to the bot so it knows how and when to use it.**\n\n![Xnapper June 19 (4).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718806230\u002FXnapper_June_19_4_e0c3250d09.webp)\n\nNext, you should scroll down and set all the database fields to the required using the toggle. It's also worth checking that the AI-generated description of each field is correct. Again, this is important because it tells the AI how it should use each field.\n\n![Xnapper June 19 (5).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718806416\u002FXnapper_June_19_5_8f5a1e73d0.webp)\n\nGreat, we can add our final power-up, a \"Query Notion database\" power-up. This one will allow our bot to find and retrieve items we already have saved to our Notion bookmark database. \n\nOnce you have added the power-up, select the same database you used previously and then update the power-up name and description.\n\n![Xnapper June 19 (6).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718806592\u002FXnapper_June_19_6_2a9576e92e.webp)\n\nWe used the name \"Find bookmarks\" and the description \"Search Bookmarks database\". \n\nThat should be all the bot building done, we can now test the bot!\n\n### Using the bookmark bot\n\nUsing the bookmarking bot is as simple as going to your bot URL and pasting in an interesting link. Here's an example:\n\n![Xnapper June 19 (7).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718807178\u002FXnapper_June_19_7_83d5981bef.webp)\n\nAnd the item added to Notion:\n\n![Xnapper June 19 (8).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718807247\u002FXnapper_June_19_8_2319966fd8.webp)\n\nPretty cool right!\n\n#### Adding it to your home screen\n\nI am constantly bookmarking things on my phone. To make it as easy as possible, using your new bookmarking bot, you can add it to your home screen, which is super convenient. On iOS, you can visit your bot's URL, then click the share icon and find the add to home screen option.\n\n![Xnapper June 19 (9).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718807879\u002FXnapper_June_19_9_2636951067.webp)\n\nYou can now open your bookmark bot with a few clicks like any other app on your phone! \n\n![Xnapper June 19 (10).webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1718807879\u002FXnapper_June_19_10_3f0bfabb8e.webp)\n\n### What next?\n\nThis demonstrates the powerful tools you can build using Chat Thing and Notion without any code! This is just one of the 1000s of potential use cases. \n\nIf you want to learn more, check out our [Notion Power-up docs](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fbots\u002Fe83e0574-16cc-4ff5-8fb3-d9c9c5f95cac\u002F), and if you have any questions, please get in contact! \n\n","Learn how to build your own personal AI bookmarking buddy with Chat Thing and Notion.","building-an-ai-bookmarking-bot-with-notion","2024-06-05T20:45:46.598Z","2024-06-19T16:19:21.883Z","2024-06-19T16:19:21.876Z","zzeo6gkn8cz3jdk6lrba37zc"]