Analyze competitor Instagram Reels with Apify, DeepSeek, and Google Sheets
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What this workflow does
This AI workflow has 23 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day at 09:00). Along the way it connects Google Sheets, OpenAI Chat Model, Telegram and Apify (community).
How it runs
Trigger: On a schedule (every day at 09:00).
- 01b — Create Registry Table (Data table): create (table)
- 02 — Load Competitors (Google Sheets): uses Google Sheets
- 02b — Filter Active Competitors (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- 03 — Loop Over Competitors (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
- 06 — Prepare Reel Queue (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- 04 — Fetch Recent Reels (Apify): run actor and get dataset (actors)
- 07 — Loop Over Reels (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
- 05 — Normalize Reel Data (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- 17 — Build Run Digest (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- 08 — Already Processed? (Data table): get (row)
…plus 11 more steps. See the full node list below.
Services it uses
Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0
We can't fully verify this one: it relies on 1 community package, and n8n 3.0 turns unverified community packages off by default (N8N_UNVERIFIED_PACKAGES_ENABLED=false).
- Check that @apify/n8n-nodes-apify is verified or supports 3.0 (used in 04 — Fetch Recent Reels, 10 — Run Instagram Transcript Actor).
Nodes used (10)
- Schedule Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger - Data table
n8n-nodes-base.dataTable - Google Sheets
n8n-nodes-base.googleSheets - Code
n8n-nodes-base.code - Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)
n8n-nodes-base.splitInBatches - Apify
@apify/n8n-nodes-apify.apify - If
n8n-nodes-base.if - Basic LLM Chain
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainLlm - OpenAI Chat Model
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi - Telegram
n8n-nodes-base.telegram
From the author
Quick overview This workflow runs daily to fetch competitors’ latest Instagram Reels via Apify, transcribe each Reel, generate structured content-strategy insights with an OpenAI-compatible model (DeepSeek), and save the results to Google Sheets while…