Automated Website Scraper and Data Archiver
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Effortlessly extract website content and archive it into Google Sheets and Google Docs. This workflow automates the process of crawling websites, capturing specific information, and organizing it for easy access and analysis.
About This Workflow
The Automated Website Scraper and Data Archiver is a powerful n8n workflow designed to streamline your web data collection processes. By simply providing a starting URL, keywords, and a depth for crawling, this workflow will navigate your target website, extract relevant content, and store it systematically. It leverages the power of Airtop for advanced web scraping, Google Sheets for structured data storage, and Google Docs for creating comprehensive archived reports of your findings. This automation is ideal for market research, competitive analysis, content archiving, and any task requiring the extraction of website data.
Key Features
- Triggered by Form Submission: Easily initiate scraping with a simple web form, inputting seed URL, keywords, and desired crawl depth.
- Intelligent Content Extraction: Utilizes Airtop's capabilities to scrape website content accurately.
- Structured Data Archiving: Stores extracted URLs and other relevant information into a Google Sheet.
- Automated Document Generation: Creates a new Google Doc for each scraping task, titled with the seed URL.
- Content Consolidation: Writes the scraped content directly into the generated Google Doc.
- Iterative Scraping: Supports multi-level crawling based on the specified depth, ensuring comprehensive data collection.
How To Use
- Set up Credentials: Ensure you have connected your Google Sheets and Google Docs accounts, as well as your Airtop API credentials within n8n.
- Configure the Trigger: The workflow starts with a
formTriggernode. Customize theformTitleandformFieldsas needed. Key fields include 'Seed url', 'Links must contain', and 'Depth'. - Define Data Structure: The 'Info to upload into spreadsheet' node prepares the data for storage. It maps the 'Seed url' from the form to a 'URL' field in your spreadsheet.
- Create Spreadsheet and Document: The workflow includes nodes to create a new Google Sheet and Google Doc. You'll need to configure these to use your desired Google account.
- Scrape Webpage: The 'Scrape webpage' node (using Airtop) takes the 'Seed url' and begins the scraping process.
- Write Scraped Content: The 'Write scraped content' node appends the extracted text to the created Google Doc.
- Iterate Scraping (Optional): The 'Should scrape more?' node checks if further crawling is required based on the 'Depth' parameter. If true, it reads existing scraped URLs from your Google Sheet and extracts new links to scrape.
- Execute: Once configured, submit the form to start the automated scraping and archiving process.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "ab2ed3fb-41a0-444a-bbd5-f80397947cf7",
"name": "Automated Website Scraper and Data Archiver",
"nodes": 19,
"category": "Operations",
"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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