🚀 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧8𝐧!

As promised in my last post, I am back with a new build and this time it's straight from LinkedIn. You’ve probably seen the “Comment GUIDE and I’ll send it over” posts everywhere. But have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes to track those comments? 👀

This week, I tried building that workflow myself with n8n.

Here’s what it does:

✅ Takes a LinkedIn post URL and a keyword

✅ Pulls every comment from the post

✅ Filters the people who actually asked for the lead magnet

✅ Logs them in a sheet and emails me a quick summary

The workflow connects a few different tools:

𝐀𝐩𝐢𝐟𝐲 🕷️ for fetching the post comments through an HTTP request
A 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 node 🧩 to clean up the raw data into name, profile, comment and timestamp
𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 + 𝐆𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 📊 to store the leads and send the summary

What I learned the most wasn’t in the workflow itself, it was in the roadblocks 😅

LinkedIn’s official API keeps comment and engagement data locked behind approvals for most apps. I fought OAuth scope errors before realizing I should change the approach, not the error message.

Still a prototype, but going from “this isn’t possible” to a working flow in a weekend is what keeps me hooked on automation.

What’s one manual follow-up task in your work that you’d love to automate?

#AI #Automation #n8n #LeadGeneration #BuildInPublic #WorkflowAutomation #SoftwareEngineering #Tech

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🚀 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧8𝐧!