Scrape LinkedIn profiles and auto-generate cold emails using n8n
An n8n workflow receives LinkedIn links, scrapes user profiles, and uses AI to write personalized cold emails. The author reports booking 20-30 high-quality calls per month.
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Added 2026-11-02 · originally published Sun, 01 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT
Steps
- 1Set up an n8n workflow to receive LinkedIn profile URLs via a webhook or timer, and validate the links.
- 2Use Apify or a headless browser to scrape LinkedIn profile data and clean the dataset.
- 3Construct a dynamic prompt combining the profile data, email objective, and tone.
- 4Send the prompt to Claude or GPT models to generate an email draft, and filter out any hallucinated details in the response.
- 5Send the generated results to Slack, email, Google Sheets, or Notion for review.
Ideas for Chinese platforms
This workflow logic can be adapted for domestic platforms—such as scraping user profiles from Xiaohongshu or professional networking platforms, and combining them with AI to batch-generate customized direct messages or business development outreach copy to automate lead generation.
Copy-ready prompt
Build a workflow where I submit a LinkedIn profile URL, it scrapes the profile, and an AI agent writes a short cold email in [tone] tone offering [my product or service]. Reference something specific from the profile. Output the draft for my review and never send it automatically; the job is done when a draft appears for each URL.
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