TopSourcer: AI-Driven LinkedIn Profile Sourcing
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TopSourcer leverages AI to transform natural language candidate descriptions into targeted LinkedIn profile searches. This powerful workflow automates the process of finding ideal candidates, delivering organized results directly to your Google Sheets. Streamline your talent acquisition and lead generation efforts with intelligent automation.
About This Workflow
TopSourcer is an innovative n8n workflow designed to revolutionize your talent sourcing and lead generation. Simply describe your ideal candidate or paste a job description into a chat interface. Utilizing the power of AI, the workflow intelligently converts your natural language input into a precise Google search query targeting LinkedIn profiles. It then performs authenticated Google searches, extracts relevant LinkedIn URLs, and neatly organizes all findings into a new Google Sheet. With built-in pagination and rate-limiting precautions, TopSourcer ensures efficient and reliable data collection, saving countless hours for recruiters, sales professionals, and researchers.
Key Features
- AI-Powered Search String Generation: Transform natural language descriptions into highly effective Boolean search queries for LinkedIn profiles.
- Automated LinkedIn Profile Extraction: Efficiently scour Google search results to identify and extract valuable LinkedIn profile URLs.
- Authenticated Google Search: Utilize a Google cookie to perform authenticated searches, ensuring comprehensive and accurate results.
- Google Sheets Integration: Automatically create new sheets and populate them with discovered LinkedIn profiles for easy organization and access.
- Configurable Result Paging: Easily set the desired number of LinkedIn profiles to find, with built-in logic for paginated search results and rate limit handling.
How To Use
- Activate Workflow & Start Chat: After activating the workflow, click "Open Chat". Paste your job description or describe your ideal candidate in natural language.
- Configure OpenAI API Key: In the AI node responsible for generating the search string (as indicated by the sticky note for OpenAI API keys), add your OpenAI API key for credentialing.
- Connect Google Sheets: Connect your Google Sheets account to the "Create a new sheet" node and ensure you select the desired Google Sheet document where results will be stored.
- Set Desired Results: In the loop condition node, as guided by the sticky note, modify the default '50' to your desired total number of LinkedIn profiles to fetch. Each loop iteration typically returns 10 results.
- Set Up Authenticated Google Search: Follow the instructions in "Sticky Note4" to install the "Cookie-Editor" Chrome extension. Use it to export your Google search header string, then paste this value into the "HTTP Request" node's Header Auth cookie value for authenticated searching.
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Workflow JSON
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"id": "ca2bf33a-02aa-41be-a8d7-d5b74155e96f",
"name": "TopSourcer: AI-Driven LinkedIn Profile Sourcing",
"nodes": 7,
"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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