Automating Has NEVER BEEN Easier - No code and Low Code Tools Every Business Owner Should Use (2024)

Summary

The 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

00:00

🔧 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。

05:03

🚀 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。

10:04

🌐 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。

15:06

📊 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。

Keywords

💡快速API

快速API是一个API目录,包含许多不同的API端点,可以用来连接和自动化流程。视频中的例子包括连接领英和确实的API,用于获取联系信息和发布职位。

💡Appify

Appify是一个API和网络抓取器的市场。视频演示了如何使用Appify的Instagram主题标签抓取器和确实抓取器来获取数据。

💡防御性自动化

视频将简化流程的自动化称为防御性自动化,比如使用Zapier发送账单。防御性自动化提高效率但不直接产生收入。

💡进攻性自动化

视频将产生直接收入的自动化称为进攻性自动化,比如自动联系发布职位的人。这可以带来业务增长。

💡CTR操纵

这是一种黑帽方法,使用软件自动模拟点击和浏览网站,欺骗搜索引擎以获得更高的排名。视频中简要解释了这种做法。

💡N8N

这是一个免费的无代码自动化工具,提供预建工作流模板。视频演示了它的功能,可以取代Zapier等工具,实现API和系统之间的集成。

💡Google地图抓取器

Appify市场上常用的一个工具,可以根据条件抓取谷歌地图上的商家信息,包括电话、邮箱、点评等。可用于销售机会发掘。

💡流量生成器

Appify的一个工具,可以向网站发送大量流量,模拟浏览和点击等,用于测试网站性能和抗攻击能力。

💡开源

N8N是一个开源项目,可以自行搭建和使用,视频中作为它的优点之一提到。

💡GPT

N8N的聊天机器人模板使用了GPT模型进行问答。视频简要演示了这个功能。

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

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