How to create a workflow that logs into a website and then returns the html data

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Hey,

I am new to n8n and workflow automation but not to SWE as a whole. I own a webapp that has an admin login page that asks for a username and a password. I want to create an automation that:

  • Triggers manually
  • Runs my website URL
  • Enters the password, username and bypasses the “remember me” option
  • Returns all the HTML data on the page

I am using n8n cloud and for the life of me can’t figure out how to get this seemingly simple task to work. Please help me understand what I am missing and what I should be adding to the HTTP Request node.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

2

you can do that on the self-hosted instance with a community node like puppeteer

3

Thank you! If I use puppeteer are my admin credentials secure?

4

I don’t know. Never used it :thinking:

If it uses credentials, then it should be safe