Score Instagram hashtag engagement with Apify, Telegram, and Airtable
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What this workflow does
This workflow has 9 nodes and runs on a schedule (every 24 hours). Along the way it connects Telegram and Airtable.
How it runs
Trigger: On a schedule (every 24 hours).
- Load monitoring hashtags (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Scrape Instagram posts via Apify API (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
- Extract and normalize post data (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Remove empty API responses (Filter): keeps only the items that match a condition
- Calculate engagement score and rank (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Format HTML report for Telegram (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Save results to Airtable database (Airtable): create or update
- Send engagement report to Telegram (Telegram): uses Telegram
Services it uses
Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0
Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.
Nodes used (6)
- Schedule Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger - Code
n8n-nodes-base.code - HTTP Request
n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest - Telegram
n8n-nodes-base.telegram - Airtable
n8n-nodes-base.airtable - Filter
n8n-nodes-base.filter
From the author
Quick Overview This workflow runs daily to fetch Instagram hashtag posts via the Apify API, computes a weighted engagement score, then sends a top-10 HTML report to Telegram and upserts the scored posts into Airtable. How it works 1. Runs on a 24-hour…