How to Find and Scrape Contact Info for New Kayak Launch Decision Makers

Hey Guys - looking for the best way to search Google/news articles for municipalities that recently opened a new kayak launch in their city and then scrape the contact info, name, and title of a decision maker (likely their parks and rec director or city administrator) from the municipality. What’s the best way to do this?

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Hey, how's it going? That's a great question. I think and what I'm understanding about this is that you're looking to automatically track when something new in that industry shows up and run a scrape. Perhaps having an RSS feed set up to keep track of that in some way, you can have them auto-import into Clay via the available source, then running a Claygent column to browse and scrape the site or Google for those contact data points. Granted, I'm not familiar with RSS Feeds that much and if they have a category for this they can track for you to pull in relevant news but sounds like it would be the closest option in my experience. Hope that helps! https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/1187794359/8aa2444e583a1e08fc223d08/CleanShot+2024-09-20+at+16_40_06%402x.png?expires=1726877700&signature=05e2e31990bf1b8226c5d3ecea7f486667e44a04e089e641b4ae6726e482a1a8&req=dSEvEc53mYJaUPMW1HO4zYdt%2FWEDVfSgQWM%2BhVsrvn9eOoVMR43Zh1tOa8cO%0A3XCb%0A
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Whenever W.
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Hey - I tried to set up an RSS feed for this google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=new+kayak+launch&sca_esv=6002dbc0d746c933&rlz=1C5GCC[…]CAqAC8wHCAgUQIRigAZgDAIgGAZIHAzAuMqAH_As&sclient=gws-wiz-news This was the error I got: https://app.clay.com/workspaces/82534/tables/t_S7F8iJWx6Mbg/views/gv_fUQHFVTcf84C
Bo (.
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Hey there! I see you're trying to use a Google search URL as an RSS feed. For what you're looking to achieve, you'll want to use the Google Search source in Clay instead of RSS. You can recreate your "new kayak launch" search directly in the table using Google Search enrichment. As a bonus tip: try using Google search operators to get more precise results. For example, "new kayak launch" in quotes or adding site: operators. You can find some great search operator examples in our guide: clay.com/blog/basics-of-google-search-operators Does this works for you?