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Autonomous AI crawler

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by Oskar ✓ · 76,948 views · created 2024-07-05 · Lead Generation, AI Chatbot

Needs changes. This template uses 1 thing(s) that n8n 3.0 removes: AI Agent v1 (old agent modes). 1 breaking item(s) found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 28 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow”. Along the way it connects OpenAI Chat Model and Supabase.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow”.

  1. Get companies (Supabase): get many
  2. Select company name and website (Edit Fields (Set)): sets or maps fields
  3. Crawl website (AI Agent): runs an AI agent, with model: OpenAI Chat Model; 2 tools (Text, URLs); output parser: JSON Parser
  4. Map company name and website (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 2 fields: company_name, company_website
  5. Set social media array (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: social_media
  6. Merge: merges the data from its input branches
  7. Insert new row (Supabase): uses Supabase
  8. Set domain (text) (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: domain
  9. Add protocool to domain (text) (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: domain
  10. Get website (text) (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API

…plus 13 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

OpenAI Chat ModelSupabase

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

1 thing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0. Fix it before you upgrade:

  • AI Agent v1 (old agent modes) in Crawl website (v1.6): replace with Latest AI Agent node (Tools Agent). For SQL Agent, use a Postgres or MySQL tool with a recent AI Agent.

Rather not rewrite it? Many of these flows can be rebuilt in Make (free plan).

Removed in 3.0Replace with
AI Agent v1 (old agent modes)
Crawl website (v1.6)
Latest AI Agent node (Tools Agent). For SQL Agent, use a Postgres or MySQL tool with a recent AI Agent.

Nodes used (15)

From the author

This workflow with AI agent is designed to navigate through the page to retrieve specific type of information (in this example: social media profile links). The agent is equipped with 2 tools: - text tool: to retrieve all the text from the page, - URLs tool:…

Excerpt from Oskar's description on n8n.io.

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