Scrape Book Prices, Sort, & Email as CSV Automatically
Automatically generate and receive sorted book price reports in minutes, eliminating hours of manual data collection and formatting.
Manually gathering book prices from multiple online sources is time-consuming and prone to errors. This workflow automates web scraping to extract book titles and prices, sorts them, and delivers a clean CSV report directly to your inbox.
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Automate Book Price Scraping and Reporting
Manually tracking book prices across various online sources is a tedious and time-consuming task. This n8n workflow provides a powerful, automated solution to continuously monitor, extract, and report on book prices, ensuring you always have up-to-date market insights without any manual effort.
Key Features
- Automated URL triggering from Google Sheets, initiating scrapes instantly.
- AI-powered web scraping with Dumpling AI for clean HTML extraction, bypassing common scraping hurdles.
- Precise extraction of book titles and prices using robust CSS selectors, ensuring data accuracy.
- Intelligent sorting of book data by price (descending), allowing for quick analysis of premium listings.
- Automatic conversion of scraped data into a downloadable CSV file, ready for spreadsheets or databases.
- Instant email delivery of comprehensive book price reports, keeping you informed without logging in.
How It Works
This workflow kicks off when you add a new book URL to a designated Google Sheet. It then uses Dumpling AI to efficiently scrape the webpage, extracting clean HTML. The workflow intelligently identifies and separates individual book entries, meticulously pulling out their titles and prices. This data is then sorted by price, converted into a clean CSV file, and automatically emailed to your specified address, providing you with actionable insights in a ready-to-use format.