List Builder
The List Builder workflow helps users efficiently create detailed lists of specific groups through automated web searches and data extraction. It can scrape relevant web pages from Google search results, extract information about target individuals, deduplicate and organize the data, and finally import the cleaned data into Google Sheets. This workflow addresses the tediousness of manual searches and information organization, improving the efficiency and accuracy of list building, and is suitable for various scenarios such as marketing, recruitment, community management, and data analysis.
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Workflow Name
List Builder
Key Features and Highlights
The List Builder workflow automates web searching and data extraction to help users rapidly compile detailed lists of specific target groups. It crawls relevant webpage links from Google search results, then further extracts target individuals’ information—such as names, IDs or accounts, and personal homepage URLs—from these pages. The workflow automatically deduplicates and organizes the data, and finally batch writes the cleaned information into Google Sheets, enabling structured data management and easy access.
Core Problems Addressed
Manual searching and compiling target audience lists is time-consuming and prone to errors, especially when aggregating information from multiple webpages. This workflow effectively resolves issues of fragmented data collection, duplication, and complex organization, significantly improving the efficiency and accuracy of list building.
Use Cases
- Marketing professionals seeking precise lists of opinion leaders or influencers in specific fields
- Recruitment teams quickly identifying potential candidates and their public information
- Community managers building high-quality user or fan lists
- Data analysts conducting online behavior research and tracking of target groups
Main Workflow Steps
- Trigger Workflow: Start the process manually with a click.
- Set Parameters: Define the target audience (who) and location (where), e.g., “Top ‘Build in Public’ influencers on X.”
- Search and Retrieve Links: Use the Airtop API to perform Google searches, returning up to 10 non-advertisement links.
- Format Link Results: Parse and extract URLs from the search results.
- Extract Individual Information: For each link, call the Airtop API to extract up to 20 target individuals’ names, accounts, and URLs.
- Deduplicate and Organize: Clean the data via code nodes to remove duplicates and ensure list uniqueness.
- Export to Spreadsheet: Append the final list into Google Sheets for easy viewing and further use.
Systems and Services Involved
- Airtop API: For search and information extraction.
- Google Sheets: As the data storage and presentation platform.
- n8n Platform: For workflow automation orchestration and execution.
Target Users and Value
- Marketing and PR professionals aiming to efficiently build target influencer lists.
- HR and headhunting teams needing to quickly identify candidate pools.
- Community operators and content creators looking for collaborators and potential fans.
- Data analysts and researchers automating the collection and management of audience data.
By leveraging the List Builder workflow, users can significantly enhance the automation level of list construction, save substantial time and labor costs, and quickly obtain accurate, structured target audience data—empowering better business decisions and market expansion.
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