Building an influencer/affiliate scraping and outreach automation | NEED HELP

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Hi, I’ve been waiting my whole life (lol) for these exciting times, because I now believe that just in the last couple of months, we’re finally at the point where my use case isn’t just possible, it’s borderline simple (I’m just a noob with automation - although I’ve watched tons of guys on YouTube setting up n8n if that counts).

My ultimate goal is simple on the surface, and would replace several subscriptions and ad-hoc solutions:

All I’m trying to do is a 3-step process:

  1. Influencer discovery and data scraping
    – Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter (in that order of importance)
  2. Data consolidation to a Google Sheet with columns of data
    – Export all data into structured cells, with dedicated tabs per platform
  3. Email outreach with personalization on an automated schedule
    – Use Gemini 2.0 Pro or DeepSeek API via OpenRouter to study their profile to write personalized emails at scale with SendGrid

I have VERY detailed files (Terminator reference) on what I think the best process/work flow for this would be after a ton of research (aka: 5-6 hours on DeepSeek and o3-mini), but wanted to keep this simple. Thanks!

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That sounds like a solid automation plan! Given n8n’s flexibility, you can definitely streamline this process. Have you already set up any workflows, or are you looking for guidance on building everything from scratch?

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Hi, i’m debating whether n8n or make.com would be better when combined with Apify social scraper actor.

I know with n8n the entire automation sequence is only 1 ‘credit,’ whereas with my current set up on make.com the entire automation would be around 10 steps (API calls, read/write, etc.)… so it seems n8n would be the better solution financially by far (10X)… am I understanding this correctly?

I know for a fact, unless I’m overlooking something super obvious, that n8n, Apify, DeepSeek or Flash 2.0 (cheapest APIs by FAR) and Google Workspace APi for email sending, would be the best scneario.

What I DON’T know, is how the actually initiate the WYSIWYG type workflow within n8n, since the YouTube’s I’ve watched are all make.com which they all claim is extremely easy without a learning curve?