Find Local Garage Sales Automatically with n8n
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Discover hidden treasures and local deals by automating the search for garage sales around you. This workflow efficiently scrapes websites and alerts you to sales happening nearby.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow automates the process of finding local garage sales. It leverages your smartphone's location to query a dedicated website, extracts relevant sale information like distance and rank, and filters for the most promising opportunities. The workflow is scheduled to run daily, ensuring you never miss out on a potential bargain. By parsing HTML content, it efficiently pulls key details, making it easy to plan your treasure hunting trips. This showcase template demonstrates how to combine location data, web scraping, and conditional logic to create a highly personalized and useful automation.
Key Features
- Automated Location-Based Search: Automatically fetches garage sale listings based on your current location.
- Scheduled Operation: Runs daily at a specified time to provide fresh opportunities.
- Intelligent Filtering: Filters sales by distance and a "rank" (likely indicating popularity or quality).
- Detailed Information Extraction: Pulls crucial details like city, distance, and event rank.
- Customizable URL Parsing: Dynamically constructs website URLs based on location data.
How To Use
- Trigger Configuration: The workflow is triggered by a schedule (every day at 7:30 AM by default) or manually via 'Test workflow'.
- Location Data: Ensure your Home Assistant is configured with a 'Your_Smartphone_location_sensor' and that its state is accessible.
- Website Scraping: The 'Get Brocabrac' node fetches data from
brocabrac.fr. The URL is dynamically set using your location's postal code and locality in the 'Set URL to parse' node. - HTML Parsing: The 'Extract Date & Blocks' and 'Extract Garage Sales Events' nodes parse the HTML content to extract event details and blocks.
- Information Refinement: 'Get each Garage Sale info' extracts city, distance, and rank. 'Get Rank & Distance' cleans these values.
- Conditional Filtering: The 'Filter on close and bigger events' node keeps only sales within 20km and meeting certain rank criteria. The 'Any today?' node checks if the extracted sale date matches the current day.
- Output: The filtered and refined data can then be used for notifications or further processing.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "94bba88a-95ed-44cb-b2e7-d92212c78a68",
"name": "Find Local Garage Sales Automatically with n8n",
"nodes": 10,
"category": "Personal",
"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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