Extract Employee Emails From Company Domains with Browseract and Google Sheets

The workflow JSON

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Credentials you'll need

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• browserActApi
• googleSheetsOAuth2Api
• slackApi
• telegramApi

About this workflow

This workflow automates the process of enriching company data by scraping employee emails and positions from company websites. It processes a list of URLs from a Google Sheet, handles anti-bot measures (CAPTCHAs) by alerting you via Telegram to solve them manually before…

Source: https://n8n.io/workflows/12362/ — original creator credit. Request a take-down →

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