Competitor Linkedin Monitor with Airtop

The workflow JSON

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{
  "id": "mC3v7Zbzt2kofF7p",
  "meta": {
    "templateCredsSetupCompleted": true
  },
  "name": "Competitive monitoring Linkedin",
  "tags": [],
  "nodes": [
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      "name": "Schedule Trigger",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger",
      "position": [
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      "parameters": {
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          "interval": [
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              "triggerAtHour": 18
            }
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      "typeVersion": 1.2
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    {
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      "position": [
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      ],
      "parameters": {
        "color": 2,
        "width": 260,
        "height": 340,
        "content": "## Enter [Airtop Profile](https://portal.airtop.ai/browser-profiles) authenticated to LinkedIn in the \"Profile Name\" field\n"
      },
      "typeVersion": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "5d2caa2f-e333-4dd8-b879-1eb11b3a4eb7",
      "name": "Get Competitors",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.googleSheets",
      "position": [
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        -20
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "options": {},
        "sheetName": {
          "__rl": true,
          "mode": "list",
          "value": "gid=0",
          "cachedResultUrl": "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TknyHS8ie0KONgF4-KFGR76I74egHLt7-M9sIxjQXGY/edit#gid=0",
          "cachedResultName": "Sheet1"
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          "cachedResultName": "Competitive Momnitoring Linkedin - Template"
        }
      },
      "credentials": {
        "googleSheetsOAuth2Api": {
          "name": "<your credential>"
        }
      },
      "typeVersion": 4.6
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    {
      "id": "f75b0ab2-2e32-4074-a468-3c30bcca9962",
      "name": "Send Summary",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.slack",
      "position": [
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      ],
      "parameters": {
        "text": "=SUMMARY OF POSTS - {{ $('Get Competitors').item.json['Name and Title '] }}\n{{ $json.data.modelResponse }}",
        "select": "channel",
        "channelId": {
          "__rl": true,
          "mode": "list",
          "value": "C092P1RRX4L",
          "cachedResultName": "competitive-monitoring"
        },
        "otherOptions": {
          "mrkdwn": true,
          "botProfile": {
            "imageValues": {
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              "profilePhotoType": "emoji"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "credentials": {
        "slackApi": {
          "name": "<your credential>"
        }
      },
      "typeVersion": 2.3
    },
    {
      "id": "65fe9b89-c790-4b4e-bc48-2c1f62613841",
      "name": "Analyze Posts",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.airtop",
      "position": [
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        -20
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "url": "={{ $json['Post lists to watch'] }}",
        "prompt": "This is a list of posts.\n\nPerform the following steps:\n1. Extract the text of up to 5 posts that were published no more than 1 week ago.\n2. Summarize the selected posts and highlight:\nNumber of posts published in the last week\nMain topics covered in the posts\nLevel of user engagement with the posts",
        "resource": "extraction",
        "profileName": "[ENTER AIRTOP PROFILE NAME HERE]",
        "sessionMode": "new",
        "additionalFields": {}
      },
      "credentials": {
        "airtopApi": {
          "name": "<your credential>"
        }
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      "parameters": {
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        "content": "README\n\n# Automating LinkedIn Competitive Monitoring\n\n## Use Case\n\nMonitoring competitors on LinkedIn helps organizations stay updated on rival strategies, hiring trends, and engagement activities. Automating this process saves time and provides structured summaries to your team regularly.\n\n## What This Automation Does\n\nThis automation monitors and summarizes LinkedIn posts from competitor profiles and shares the results on Slack. It uses the following input parameters:\n\n* **Airtop Profile**: A browser profile authenticated to LinkedIn. [Create one](https://portal.airtop.ai/browser-profiles)\n* **Google Sheet**: A document listing LinkedIn profile URLs of competitors.\n* **Slack Channel**: The destination for sharing summarized post insights.\n\n## How It Works\n\n1. **Trigger**: The workflow is scheduled to run weekly at a specific time.\n2. **Data Collection**: Retrieves the list of competitor LinkedIn URLs from a Google Sheet.\n3. **Browser Automation**: Uses Airtop to navigate to each LinkedIn profile and analyze up to 5 recent posts.\n4. **Summarization**: Summarizes number of recent posts, main topics, and engagement levels using Airtop\u2019s AI.\n5. **Slack Notification**: Posts a formatted summary to a predefined Slack channel.\n\n## Setup Requirements\n\n1. [Airtop API Key](https://portal.airtop.ai/api-keys) \u2014 free to generate.\n2. An [Airtop Profile](https://portal.airtop.ai/browser-profiles) authenticated to LinkedIn.\n3. Google Sheet with competitor post URLs., [copy this one](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TknyHS8ie0KONgF4-KFGR76I74egHLt7-M9sIxjQXGY/edit?usp=sharing)\n4. Slack Bot credentials with access to the target channel.\n\n## Next Steps\n\n* **Expand Coverage**: Add more competitor profiles to the Google Sheet to scale monitoring.\n* **Integrate with CRM**: Feed summarized insights into your CRM for competitor tracking.\n* **Enhance Analysis**: Include post-level engagement metrics over time for trend analysis.\n"
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      "typeVersion": 1
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  "settings": {
    "executionOrder": "v1"
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  "connections": {
    "Analyze Posts": {
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        [
          {
            "node": "Send Summary",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Get Competitors": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Analyze Posts",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Schedule Trigger": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Get Competitors",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  }
}

Credentials you'll need

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• airtopApi
• googleSheetsOAuth2Api
• slackApi

About this workflow

Automatically track and summarize LinkedIn posts from key executives at competitor companies. This agent provides structured insights into hiring trends, product announcements, strategic shifts, and thought leadership, helping teams stay informed and responsive without manual…

Source: https://n8n.io/workflows/5167/ — original creator credit. Request a take-down →

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