Automated Lead Scraper: Streamline Your Business Lead Generation
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Effortlessly capture and organize business leads with this automated workflow. It leverages Apify for powerful web scraping and seamlessly exports clean, structured data directly to your Google Sheets for immediate use.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow empowers sales and marketing teams by automating the tedious process of lead scraping. It connects Apify's robust web scraping capabilities with the accessibility of Google Sheets. The workflow begins with a manual trigger, then utilizes your provided Apify API token and task ID to fetch leads. Crucially, it includes a data cleaning step to standardize phone numbers and email addresses, ensuring data quality. Finally, the processed leads are appended to a specified Google Sheet, providing a centralized and actionable database for your sales efforts. This solution significantly reduces manual effort, accelerates lead acquisition, and improves data accuracy.
Key Features
- Automated Lead Scraping: Utilize Apify's powerful actors to extract business data from the web.
- Data Cleaning & Standardization: Automatically format phone numbers and emails for consistency and usability.
- Seamless Google Sheets Integration: Directly append scraped leads to your designated Google Sheet.
- Customizable Mapping: Easily define which scraped fields map to your Google Sheet columns.
- Manual Trigger Control: Initiate scraping processes on demand for maximum flexibility.
How To Use
- Set API Credentials: Locate the 'Variables' node and replace
YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKENwith your actual Apify API token andYOUR_APIFY_TASK_IDwith the ID of the Apify actor task you wish to run. - Configure Apify Scraper: Ensure the 'Run Apify Scraper' node's URL correctly uses your provided token and task ID.
- Customize Data Cleaning: Modify the 'Clean Data' node's JavaScript code to refine or add transformations to specific data fields (e.g., email, phone, website) as needed.
- Set Up Google Sheets: In the 'Export to Google Sheets' node, specify your
YOUR_GOOGLE_SHEET_IDand the desiredsheetName(default is 'Sheet1'). - Map Columns: Adjust the 'columns' parameter in the 'Export to Google Sheets' node to match the desired fields from your scraped data to your Google Sheet headers (e.g.,
company name,phone,Address,website). - Activate Workflow: Enable the workflow by toggling the 'Active' switch in n8n. You can then trigger it manually.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "b16be171-4038-4f30-b1c3-923b01084cbf",
"name": "Automated Lead Scraper: Streamline Your Business Lead Generation",
"nodes": 28,
"category": "Sales",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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