Monthly Music Events Email Subscription Workflow
This workflow utilizes automation technology to regularly capture music event information from specified locations on a monthly basis. It extracts details such as event dates, artists, supporting performers, venues, and links, and generates an aesthetically pleasing summary table in HTML format. The information is then sent to subscribed users via Gmail. With support for paginated scraping and data integration, users are relieved from the tedious task of manual searches, allowing them to obtain timely and accurate information about performances of interest, thereby enhancing the efficiency of information retrieval.
Workflow Name
Monthly Music Events Email Subscription Workflow
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow automatically fetches music event information for the current month at a specified location, extracting event dates, artists, supporting acts, venues, and event links. It generates a visually appealing summary table of events and sends it via Gmail on a scheduled basis to subscribed users. The workflow supports paginated data retrieval to ensure completeness.
Highlights include automated multi-page event list crawling, precise HTML content extraction, aggregation of multiple event entries, generation of formatted HTML email content, and automated scheduled sending—significantly improving the efficiency of information acquisition and email distribution.
Core Problems Addressed
Helps users automatically obtain and promptly receive the latest music event information for their local or specified locations each month, eliminating the need for manual searching and organizing. It enhances the timeliness and accuracy of event information delivery, enabling users to quickly stay informed about performances of interest.
Use Cases
- Music enthusiasts regularly receiving local or targeted location event updates
- Event planners or community managers routinely distributing local event information
- Media or content operation teams automatically collecting and disseminating event data
- Any scenario requiring automated generation and sending of emails based on web-sourced information
Main Process Steps
- Triggered monthly by the scheduled node “🤖 Each month”
- Set target location and recipient email address
- Initiate HTTP requests to retrieve the current month’s event pages for the specified location, supporting pagination
- Use HTML extraction nodes to parse each page’s event list and extract event HTML elements
- Split event lists, check for next page availability, and loop to fetch all events
- Parse detailed information for each event (date, artist, supporting acts, venue, event link)
- Generate formatted HTML email content including a date-sorted event table
- Send the email to designated users via the Gmail node
Systems or Services Involved
- HTTP Request Node: to fetch web page data
- HTML Extraction Node: to parse webpage HTML content
- Code Node: to process data aggregation and generate HTML
- Gmail Node: to send formatted emails
- Schedule Trigger: to automate periodic workflow execution
Target Users and Value
- Individual users interested in music events, receiving regular event recommendation emails
- Music venues, community groups, or cultural promotion organizations automatically pushing event updates to members
- Content operators and marketers aggregating and distributing event information to improve work efficiency
- Tech enthusiasts or automation operators leveraging n8n for web data scraping and email notifications
By leveraging automation, this workflow efficiently acquires and delivers event information without manual intervention, greatly facilitating users’ timely awareness of local music performances.