Learn Web Scraping with N8N - Step-by-Step Tutorial
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to scrape data from websites using n8n. We walk through extracting real estate listing information, including prices, by building a web scraping workflow.
What You'll Learn:
- Setting up a manual trigger to trigger the workflow
- Configuring HTTP requests to fetch web pages
- Adding proper browser headers to resemble a real user
- Using the HTML node to extract specific data
- Finding CSS selectors using Chrome Developer Tools
- Extracting text content from HTML elements
Key Topics Covered:
✓ HTTP Request configuration
✓ Browser header authentication
✓ Referer parameters
✓ HTML content extraction
✓ CSS selector usage
✓ Developer tools inspection
Important Note: Always ensure you follow the terms and conditions of any website you access. This tutorial is for educational and demonstration purposes only.
Perfect for beginners looking to automate data extraction from websites using n8n's no-code/low-code platform!
Here are the http headers I used in the video:
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Accept
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7
Accept-Language
en-US,en;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding
gzip, deflate, br
Connection
keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
1
Sec-Fetch-Dest
document
Sec-Fetch-Site
none
Referer
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