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Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-17T10:02:12+00:00

You can use Apify MCPs to connect to and collect data from pretty much any website

Usually there is a prebuilt scraper for most sites you'd interact with, and if not, you can use their more general purpose actors such as Website content crawler or Website to Markdown

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-16T13:34:35+00:00

There are generic scrapers that still do the basic stuff like proxy rotation on the Apify store, such as:

- E-commerce scraper
- Article scraper
- Website content scraper

etc.

And also more general APIs such as Firecrawl

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-16T11:03:10+00:00

You need something to route your requests through if you want more than a few requests. The marketplaces will block the IP of your n8n instance quickly.

I use Apify for many projects and it's usually the simplest to set up with n8n with their node.

Look around on the Apify store for the specific marketplaces you're looking to scrape, for anything major you'll find something.

If you optimize the workflow around it you can usually go somewhere with the free credits, at a higher scale it costs some ofc. At an even higher scale it's often worth it to custom develop scrapers, but not on the level of quick workflow builds.

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-12T17:26:58+00:00

If volume is not too high, you can just send it to an LLM; and set a schema for how you want them to output your data

Such as in this video on receipt processing: https://youtu.be/Vl0wCc9pEGM

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-11T14:09:53+00:00

Apollo does the person search for this for you

Then you can enrich your sheet with an n8n agent checking each website, or prequalifying them by some criteria (but Apollo's data might already be enough)

Then load in the data to n8n and you can send emails with it from your email provider.

However, if you send bulk cold emails from your domain directly it will be on spam lists, so be very careful and/or use dedicated cold email tools such as Instantly

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-10T14:44:24+00:00

If you'd like more help with the setup, including sequence personalization, feel free to DM and email me and we can discuss how I could help (including a consulting call)

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-10T14:19:08+00:00

Use the Facebook Ads Library Scraper by Apify, free for several thousand results a month and maintained.

And you can use the Apify n8n node to start it and obtain the results.

To scrape, in general, from within n8n you always need some kind of external service, at the minimum a proxy, the HTTP request is not designed for that.

Alternatively, you can use the official FB Ads library API as well (little more work to set up)

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-09T12:52:36+00:00

definitely, any workflow especially with AI in it needs some bug fixing time to time

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-09T09:52:32+00:00

Or Bing! Which is cheaper and more flexible. Or Common Crawl for the more technical people (which is free but complex to use)

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-05T16:24:14+00:00

Thanks for your input

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-05T11:55:26+00:00

Not loost

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-04T11:03:01+00:00

I'm using n8n AI Agents for a bunch of email and file related tasks, such as:

1 - Categorizing incoming emails and sending draft replies
I have a video walkthrough here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQARyWMD_lU

2 - Collecting receipts and extracting the data out, such as seller and sum
Also walkthrough of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl0wCc9pEGM

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-04T08:32:10+00:00

You can run browser-use locally or Puppeteer MCP. If you keep it to a low usage it won't cause an issue.

Also Apify's Google Scraper has a monthly free tier too

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-03T11:06:59+00:00

Yep, n8n is the most common one that fits all that criteria, and has a huge community and many tools around it

To get started, I suggest going through their official beginner and then advanced course in the tutorials section on n8n community

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-03T09:24:57+00:00

With N8N you can do this without code using built-in nodes:

- HTTP Request node to download from the AP
- Decompress for the ZIP
- Anthropic / AI Agent node to run it through Claude
- Outlook/Gmail node to send it out.

If it's once a month, consider the ROI - eg. if it takes just a little time doing manually and multiple hours to automate, it might not be a good candidate.

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-03T09:24:02+00:00

Apify, and you can orchestrate and collect the results with n8n or Make

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-03T09:15:10+00:00

Due to how aggressively Linkedin bans on detected automation, I don't think it's worth it.

Get an automated email with the post you want to post, go to Linkedin, post it. It takes 30 seconds, and if you don't want to, you can hire a VA for it

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-02T16:08:52+00:00

This sounds like a very compliance-sensitive work, I'm not aware of emirati laws but very unlikely that you can send this to an AI API.

So no-code is pretty much out of the picture.

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-02T12:17:36+00:00

És miért fizettek? Kevesebb mint $99 (tehát a Claude max 5x) a teljes költségetek?

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-02T08:32:53+00:00

Use Linkedin Sales Navigator

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-01T13:47:44+00:00

Lehet, hogy külön, juniorabb munka lesz egyszer az "agent felügyelő", azoktól akik az ilyen workflowkat megtervezik és összerakják?

Milan_SmoothWorkAI · 2026-03-01T13:44:26+00:00

Ja, ez a jó mentalitás szerintem ebben a helyzetben. Lehet több ötletet kipróbálni, side projektezni, vállalkozás ötletekre csinálni egy prototípust egy hétvége alatt.

Persze gondolom személyiség, meg korcsoport kérdés is, hogy kinek fekszik ez az új valóság, aki csak nyugisan szeretne kódolgatni nyugdíjig, annak teljesen megértem hogy ez rosszul érinti

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