Automating Has NEVER BEEN Easier - No code and Low Code Tools Every Business Owner Should Use (2024)
Summary
TLDRThe video discusses several automation tools for streamlining processes and generating revenue, including the API directories RapidAPI and Apify which allow connecting to various web scrapers, data sources, and workflows. It also introduces n8n, an open source alternative to Zapier for building workflows and connectors between apps and APIs with premade templates. The tools aim to save time, scale efforts, enable outbound prospecting, and complement existing automation platforms.
Takeaways
- 🚀 Rapid API是一个连接多个API端点的目录,便于流程自动化。
- 🔍 通过Rapid API,可以简化B2B前景探寻,如使用LinkedIn profiles API和LinkedIn job scraper。
- 📈 Rapid API提供的API支持多种用例,如电商店铺信息抓取和Telegram自动化。
- 🛠 Appify是一个强大的API和网页抓取工具市场,提供各种类型的“actors”来执行特定任务。
- 🔗 Appify的使用案例包括Instagram hashtag scraper和Indeed工作信息抓取。
- 📊 n8n是一个开源的无代码工具,允许复杂的自动化构建,是Zapier的一个替代品。
- 👨💻 n8n支持通过社区版免费使用,并提供丰富的模板库以快速部署自动化流程。
- 🔑 n8n的实现依赖于开放源代码,支持与多个平台和API集成,如Google Sheets和Open AI。
- 📚 视频介绍了如何使用这些工具进行市场推广、客户寻找和业务流程自动化。
- 💡 作者鼓励观众提供反馈,并承诺根据评论优化未来视频内容。
Q & A
Rapid API是什么?
-Rapid API是一个API的目录平台,提供许多可连接的API端点,帮助用户简化流程和增加操作的可能性。
在Rapid API平台上,如何使用LinkedIn API来简化B2B前景开发流程?
-可以使用LinkedIn API来抓取LinkedIn上的个人资料和公司数据,或者使用LinkedIn工作抓取器来搜索和获取特定工作岗位的信息,从而帮助自动化B2B前景开发流程。
什么是Appify,并且它如何与Rapid API比较?
-Appify是一个市场,提供称为actors的API和网络抓取器。它被视为比Rapid API更强大的工具,专注于网络抓取,但作者尚未充分使用Rapid API,无法给出详细比较。
n8n是什么,它怎样作为Zapier的替代品?
-n8n是一个开源的无代码工具,允许用户构建复杂的自动化流程,连接不同的API端点。与Zapier类似,但作为开源项目,提供了更大的灵活性和自托管的可能性。
如何利用Rapid API的LinkedIn工作抓取器来寻找销售或业务开发机会?
-通过输入工作岗位的标题和地点,LinkedIn工作抓取器可以抓取发布的职位信息,帮助寻找具有高购买意向的潜在客户,从而促进销售或业务开发。
为什么Appify中的actors(演员)对于前景开发和自动化流程很有价值?
-Appify中的actors提供了各种网络抓取器,能够抓取来自Instagram、Google Maps等平台的数据,这对于寻找潜在客户、市场分析和自动化营销活动非常有用。
n8n的社区版和其它版本有什么不同?
-n8n的社区版是免费的,允许用户自托管n8n实例。这与其它可能需要订阅费用的版本相比,为用户提供了更多的自由和控制。
使用n8n有哪些典型的应用场景?
-n8n可以用于自动化与Google Sheets的交互、网页抓取、邮件发送等任务,支持构建复杂的工作流,以实现高效的数据处理和自动化营销活动。
如何使用n8n的模板来快速开始一个项目?
-n8n提供了许多预先构建的模板,用户可以通过复制模板到n8n中快速开始一个项目,这些模板覆盖了从数据抓取到自动化邮件发送等多种应用场景。
在视频中提到的三个工具(Rapid API、Appify、n8n)的选择标准是什么?
-选择标准基于这些工具能否简化流程、提高效率以及它们在特定应用场景中的性能。Rapid API和Appify适合API连接和数据抓取,而n8n适用于构建复杂的自动化工作流。
Outlines
🔧 快速API与自动化探索
本段介绍了Rapid API,这是一个允许用户连接到多个API以简化流程的平台。通过展示如何使用LinkedIn profiles API和LinkedIn job scraper API自动化B2B前景探索和职位搜索,作者展示了Rapid API的实用性和便捷性。此外,还讨论了API的市场,强调了选择评分高于八分的API的重要性,并提到了大多数API端点提供的freemium模式,使用户能够在需要支付之前测试服务。
🚀 Appify与API自动化深度对比
在这一段中,作者对比了Rapid API和Appify,后者被描述为一个更强大的API市场,主要用于网络抓取。通过介绍Instagram hashtag scraper和Indeed scraper的使用案例,作者展示了Appify在提取特定数据方面的效率和方便性。此外,还强调了探索Appify中趋势和热门抓取器的价值,以及这些工具如何帮助用户理解和应用大众使用的工作流程,尽管作者也提醒不要盲目跟随大众。
🌐 探索n8n:Zapier的开源替代品
这一段重点介绍了n8n,这是一个开源的无代码工具,允许用户通过连接API端点来构建复杂的自动化流程。作者强调了n8n与Zapier的相似性和它作为一个免费、自托管解决方案的优势。通过展示n8n的安装过程、使用模板和构建自动化的示例,作者展示了该工具的易用性和灵活性。此外,还提到了n8n社区版的免费使用和其丰富的模板库,这些模板涵盖了从社交媒体管理到客户关系管理等多个方面。
📊 自动化分类:防御性与攻击性
最后一段讨论了自动化的两种类型:防御性自动化和攻击性自动化。作者将防御性自动化定义为旨在简化流程和节省时间的自动化,例如自动发送发票和扫描紧急电子邮件。而攻击性自动化则关注于主动生成收入和外部参与,如自动寻找并参与潜在客户。作者认为,尽管这两种自动化的界限可能模糊,但区分它们对于理解自动化在业务中的应用非常重要。同时,也强调了n8n工具在支持这两种自动化策略中的潜力。
Mindmap
Keywords
💡快速API
💡Appify
💡防御性自动化
💡进攻性自动化
💡CTR操纵
💡N8N
💡Google地图抓取器
💡流量生成器
💡开源
💡GPT
Highlights
rapidAPI是一个API目录,可以轻松连接不同的API
LinkedIn工作scraper可以获取职位信息,用于销售或营销
appify是一个更强大的API marketplace,有各种web scraper
Instagram标签scraper可以获取帖子信息和用户信息
确保选择评分8分以上的API,否则可能会失败浪费时间
如果许多人都在使用某个API,那说明它可能很有价值
重点关注Appify中最流行的scraper,以了解他人的工作流程
谷歌地图Scraper可以获取商家信息,可用于销售或营销
N8N是一个开源的无代码自动化平台,可以自托管
N8N有700多个模板工作流,可以直接使用
N8N可以通过AI与Google表单对话获取信息
N8N可以复制现有的工作流模板并部署
N8N可以直接通过Google表单发送邮件
防御性自动化可以优化流程, offenses性自动化可以产生收入
N8N结合power automate可以产生强大的协同效应
Transcripts
lifechanging API and no code tools today
we are going to cover a few tools that
I'm using slis discovered lately that
have completely streamlined a lot of my
processes and make life so much easier
one of them is an awesome alternative to
a very expensive paid tool I will share
that towards the end of the
video and yeah let's just dive into this
the first tool that I want wanted to
share with you is called rapid AI rapid
API and probably some of you already
know it it's basically a directory of
many apis that you can connect
to and this can streamline any of your
processes obviously because they have
many endpoints it's very easy and
convenient to connect to these endpoints
and it just allows
you to do so many more actions so let me
show you a few examples so let's assume
that I want to automate something
related to B2B
prospecting so I can look up
LinkedIn and over here it's basically a
Marketplace of
apis uh people build different public
apis and you can connect and pay for
using the apis that were built by people
so for
example we have the LinkedIn profiles
API so so scraping data from LinkedIn is
hard this simple API tries to solve this
problem and extracts API profile
LinkedIn profiles and Company data let's
open this
up let's look for another example
LinkedIn job scraper which I already
opened over here so let's just open this
up basically what we have
here is we have some information
about the API connection so it's a
LinkedIn jobscape
you can use this for let's say you're
looking for jobs or you're looking to
land more gigs as an agency owner or if
you're doing bizd or
sales and you want to Target only people
who are currently have high intent of
buying purchasing so you can go and look
for people who just posted a job post so
for example let's assume that I'm
selling not assume but let's let's say
for me that I'm sending selling
Automation Services so what I can do is
I'm obviously I prefer targeting people
who are already looking for automated
Outreach or Automation Services so what
I can do I can just
use this scraper and I can
input the job post information so if
people look for automation expert and
the location let's say in New York and
it's going to scrape all the long the
job post that people posted um looking
for automation experts so let's see the
description of
the API end point so discover your dream
job which is looking for the perfect job
want to land you you can see it was
generated with GPT like the massive
amount of
emojis basically you provide the input
filters so the title of the job post the
location of the job post for example
Berlin let's say you're looking for a
software engineering job in Berlin and
you add how many
um results you want the API to return
you can also ask for a specific job type
so on-site hybrid or remote contact type
you can add
fulltime part-time uh internship
whatever all the alternative that you
have in LinkedIn you can also add the
entry level so if you're only seeking
like executive level entry level
whatever you can add company names but
this isn't crucial
as you can see it's not required and you
can also add published ads so for
example when I'm seeking
gigs or I'm automating stuff for my
clients I'm only targeting people who
posted the job post lately because if
someone is looking let's say I'm
helping a creative agency and they want
to reach more Leist of people who are
looking for a creative director or a
video editor so there's no point in me
scraping job post from the past year or
so because these leads are probably
irrelevant at the at already because
they probably found the solution so we
can look for people who published the
job post only the last seven days or in
the last 24 hours
Etc and this is the output
example so you can see over here the
company URL the location when was the
job post uh posted how many applicants
already have applied and the description
of the job post the contact type
experience level required
Etc so this was like the
about information about the scraper and
here you can
just take this code and add it to your
python you can you see they have many
different um languages so you can use
Powershell python
whatever and you can obviously also test
this
API just to make sure that it gives you
what you need so let's say we come here
title creative
director in New
York we will test the endpoint and we're
expecting to see the results over here
okay in the meantime while this is doing
the work so let me show you a different
alternative so for
example let's say that you're solving
problems for Ecom stores and you would
like to Target Ecom stores so you can
come to
this API which provides information
about Shopify stores what what you can
do you can
add a search string so for example let's
say you want to sell or you're seeking
only skare companies and this is already
a web uh an API call that I did that I
tested so basically I test I look I'm
looking for skin care stores and this is
a a
list of all the stores that I were that
were scraped using this API and what
you're getting you getting the URL the
store title the store name the store
description phone numbers if they have
any social media if they have links to
Facebook LinkedIn Tik Tok or whatever
you're going to get the social media
links and yeah you you get a bunch of
these so let's say great or good this is
the store name we have the phone number
so we can obviously call them we have
social media links which are empty
but you get you get the gist of it let
let's see if it already returned yes so
we can see and the results our director
social media job URL company name
company URL location when was this
posted it was posted two days ago over
200 applicants the job title
description Etc so you get a ton of
information and what you can do
afterwards is automating you can use
agents or RPA or or a VA just to
automate the reach out to the CMO or the
CEO or the hiring manager it doesn't
matter I just wanted to show you like
rapid API which is has a wealth of so
many different
apis you can look for different use
cases so for
example let's
say telegram let's say you want to
automate something with telegram
so as you can see here they also provide
the review score so always look for
review scores of above eight otherwise
it might it might fail and it's just a
waste of
time and you can also see um the the app
time Etc you can see popularity service
level health check and
latency um and there is pricing for each
one of these there's obviously pricing
this isn't free but most of them most of
the API endpoints
are somewhat like have a freemum model
so you can use them to a certain extent
so let's say in this case you can have
50 requests per month and if you want to
use more you just need to pay more so
this is the first alternative rapid API
which I just found out about a few days
ago um and this really reminds me of
appify which is a tool that I've been
using for years now and I actually
believe it is more powerful than rapid
API but again I didn't mess around with
rapid API enough in order to give like
an
educated um assessment of how good is
rapid API but I was just so excited
about finding this out so I wanted to
record this short video and show it to
you now let's cover appify which is very
powerful basically appify is a
Marketplace for apis actors they call
them actors I it's basically web
scrapers and what you have here you have
different types of web
scrapers in different categories you can
obviously search for specific ones I
always like coming to the store back end
and seeing what's trending and what are
people using so you can see here a lot
of people are using the web scraper a
lot of people are using Google Maps
scraper
Instagram hasht scraper Etc and you can
see here who built the scraper and how
many people are using it so let me show
you an example of the Instagram hashtag
scraper it's very convenient it's very
fast and this is what I love about it
basically you have like an
overview of the actor of the scraper so
scrape Instagram hashtags data just add
one or more hashtags and extract post
images URLs comments like users location
time stamps and more you can export the
scrape data um or run this via API
obviously so let's say I want to look
for
um posts or
profiles post of people that use the
hashtag Facebook ads agency and I can
add more hashtags over here then it just
works me full step by step what I need
to do I can
Define the number of posts that I want
to
scrape and then I can just save and
start and this will start
running you'll see in a moment it will
start scraping all the post and then I
will be able to export the output as a
CSV or a Json or an Excel
file let me show you an example in the
meanwhile so this is indeed skyper which
brings us back to the job search
basically what the indeed scraper does
is scrape jobs posted on indeed you get
detailed information from the job portal
about saved and SP sponsor job basically
you specify the search um based on
location with output attributes position
location and description now let's see
the results so I did already one
run and this is the table you can see
let's preview it in a new
tab so you can see over over here we
have the position name the expected
salary the job type the contact type the
company the location the rating of the
company on indeed and the URL for the
job
post we also have information about the
company and that's pretty much it and
the company URL so this is one example
and obviously as I mentioned I can just
export this very easily as a CSV as an
Excel you can filter at different fields
if you only want to specific fields or
if you want to Omit specific
Fields let's see what we have here the
Instagram hashtag scraper so we have the
text we have the post URL we have the
number of comments we have the amount of
other hashtags on the post the number of
likes when was that posted the author of
the
post Etc and this is very powerful
because it allows you to do so much
stuff that um you can also do it on on
your end you know using the instant data
scraper for
example but the problem is sometimes
um instant data scraper doesn't work and
you need to build your custom scraper
using beautiful soup or Microsoft power
automator whatever you're using and this
is just makes life so much easier what I
like doing as I mentioned is I just like
coming over here every once in a while
and seeing what's trending so if I see
many people using Google Map scraper
which basically allows you to scrape
different businesses in different areas
based on criteria it also gets you like
the amount of
reviews and their emails their phone
numbers this is very powerful for
prospecting so B basically if I see a
lot of people using a specific actor and
I don't understand the reason behind the
use of the actor I try to figure out
what is the workflow these people are
doing because if many people are
using a certain actor it must mean it
might be relevant which basically is
kind of against my belief that most
people if something something is done by
the mass by most of people you should
probably run away because I try most of
the time to do the opposite of what most
people are doing but I think this might
be an exception for the rule if a lot of
people are using a specific actor and
it's obviously relative not everybody is
using appify and not everybody is
scrapping stuff but if a lot of people
are scraping H using a specific actor I
try to figure out why are they doing
so so what you can do here is basically
filter by developers who built the
actor and the most
popular so you can see here Instagram
profile scrap scraper Twitter scraper
Facebook pay
scraper Tik Tok
scraper this is a traffic generator
which I believe is like a CTR
manipulator let's
see maximize your website performance
and visibility with our traffic
generator Drive targeted traffic
simulate page views and stress test
against potential threats with the power
to to generate millions of visit is the
ultimate solution for boosting your
performance okay so this is not a c
manipulator but based on what you they
say it's just a way to stress test your
website so basically if you have a
product
launch what you can do you can H send a
ton of traffic to your website and see
if it if it breaks down I'm assuming
there are also other um use cases for
this but I'm not quite
sure initially I thought it was a a c
manipulator and if you guys don't know
what is a c manipulator is basically
it's an automated tool that seeks a
specific keyword let's say I'm selling
e-commerce Solutions so it goes to
Google from different IPS it looks
for e-commerce Solutions then it finds
my specific website in Google it clicks
it and then it's going to um simulate as
if it is
reading um pages on the website going to
other pages on the website and the whole
idea behind C manipulation is to make
Google think that your website is
valuable that people are clicking on
your website in the search engine result
page and that people are enjoying your
content so this is why they are not
bouncing immediately and they land on
your website on your page and they
actually read through all your
stuff I don't use this because it's a
black hat method but it's just something
that I wanted to share with you because
I mentioned this and if some of you
don't know what it is it is what it is
worth mentioning because there is a lot
of things that even if you don't do
black hat stuff you can learn from the
Black Hat World the principles and what
they are doing it just improves your
ability ility to think
about the options and also understanding
what the competition might be doing
and adjusting your operations and
initiatives based on your
competition okay so we covered appify I
highly recommend checking out appify
most of the stuff in appify I'm I hope
that I'm pronouncing is this right apify
on API whatever but most of the stuff
you can get for free even only if you
use a specific actor for like larger use
cases and for more time you will
probably need to pay but in general most
of it you can get for
free now for the last um tool that I
wanted to share with you today and this
is just like the beginning of me using
this tool but I think it is very
powerful
um it's
basically based on my observation and
and understand standing is a substitute
for zapier it's called
n8n it is it allows you to build complex
automation 10x faster without fighting
API so it's basically a no code
tool to connect API end points and you
can think of zapier PE whatever make
probably what I like about GitHub about
um n8n is first of all it's an open
source project so you can get all the
information in GitHub as you can see
over
here they
have this pricing model but they also
offering uh Community addition which
basically allows you to self
host n8n and run everything Auto uh on
your back
end without paying so for free and the
install ination of n8n is very easy and
straightforward all you have to do is go
to your command line npx
n8n in this case since I already have
this
installed it doesn't install everything
but as you can see here it is saying
that I already have an instance open so
what I have to do because I already have
an instance open I just need to open
this
because running npx n8n also
installs na1 but it also opens na10 so
let's see where exactly yes it is
here so as you can see on over here this
is the
local implementation of
n8n it's on my local host and you can
see here what I like about this is you
have a ton of templates already good to
go and ready to
use so chat with a Google sheet using
AI chat with open AI assistant by adding
memory and this is the template you have
more data about the template over here
so this workflow allows you to ask
questions about the data in Google sheet
over a chat
interface it uses it uses n8n built-in
chat but could be modified to work with
slack teams WhatsApp Etc behind the
scenes the workflow uses GPT 4 so you'll
need to have an open AI API
key they show exactly how it works and
basically what you can
do is you can use this template copy the
template to clip clip clip
board
and I can add the template over here and
I'm good to go I I already have this
ready and I have this template ready and
I can start
automating just need to figure out like
the API Keys
obviously but this is so convenient and
very easy so we have also the Google
Maps
scraper so we have the workflow over
here the
information how to implement and we can
use the template by just copying it here
and following it over there
now let's dive deeper in this like just
to show an example so we have the chat
trigger it looks a lot like all the no
code automation tools so we just add the
open AI API
Keys we have all
the conditioned over here all the get
requests
so basically it's just a weth of
templates that you can use and
afterwards start automating let me show
you something that I wanted let me share
with you something that I wanted to show
you yes so you can check with a database
using AI which is very
cool but there are so many workflows
actually 700
workflows just ready to go so sales
let's see the sales so Google mapc
AI agents that can scrape web pages send
multiple emails in Gmail directly via
Google Sheets so this was
cool
basically they also have a video for the
workflow process so this is very easy
you just follow the video basically you
have a Google
spreadsheet a Google sheet over
here and and you have look it's so
amazing because you have every
everything already set up and ready for
you and you can just
start deploy and also you can send this
to sell this to clients so it's very
valuable so we have the subject we have
the
title the status the date and the email
recipient and
basically I'm assuming that every time
there is a new row added or based on
different
frequency they just automated Gmail to
send out the emails based on the content
of the template so this is very
cool again I invite you to explore N1
I'm going to play around with this a lot
because I think it complement what I'm
doing I have Microsoft power automate
for doing what I call offensive
automations and doing stuff which is
more customized by the way my
distinction of offensive and defensive
automations is something that I made up
and I think it's pretty good once in a
while I have an interesting or a good uh
idea so defensive automation this stuff
I consider like more streamlining
processes so using zpl to send invoices
to your accountant or
using an automation that scans your
emails and tells you if any email is
urgent so this is stuff that I call
defensive Automation and stuff that I
call offensive automation is like I
showed you before H reach out um looking
for people who posted jobs and engaging
with them automatically so liking the
recent post perhaps commenting on the
recent
post stuff that is generating Revenue so
this is basically how I make the
distinction between defensive Automation
and offensive automation if it's
generating Revenue
and we're doing mostly outbound I
consider it as an offensive Automation
and if it's more like streamline
streamlining a process
and shaving time for process I consider
it more as a defensive automation
although the lines are like the lines of
Distinction are kind of fuzzy but this
is just just the
idea anyway long story short I believe
that n8n can be very very valuable for
you guys and the fact that it's free to
use in the community version is also a
big benefit so rapid API API and n81 we
covered all of them
today I guess that's pretty much it if
you have any questions regarding what we
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