📍 Daily nearby garage sales alerts via Telegram

by Thibaud ✓ · 1,268 views · created 2025-06-04 · Personal Productivity

What this workflow does

This workflow has 16 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 1 other trigger). Along the way it connects Home Assistant and Telegram.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 1 other trigger).

1. Get location (Home Assistant): work with state
2. Set URL to parse (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: URL
3. Get Brocabrac (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
4. Extract Date & Blocks (HTML): parses or builds HTML
5. Any today? (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
6. Extract Garage Sales Events (HTML): parses or builds HTML
7. Split Out: splits a list into separate items
8. Loop Over Items (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
9. Filter: keeps only the items that match a condition
10. Get each Garage Sale info (HTML): parses or builds HTML

…plus 4 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

Home AssistantTelegram

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Nodes used (11)

• Manual Triggern8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• Split Outn8n-nodes-base.splitOut
• Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)n8n-nodes-base.splitInBatches
• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• Home Assistantn8n-nodes-base.homeAssistant
• Edit Fields (Set)n8n-nodes-base.set
• HTMLn8n-nodes-base.html
• Filtern8n-nodes-base.filter
• Ifn8n-nodes-base.if
• Telegramn8n-nodes-base.telegram

From the author

Get a personalized list of garage sales happening today, based on your current location, directly in Telegram each morning! This n8n workflow integrates Home Assistant and Brocabrac.frto: - Automatically detect your location every day - Scrape and parse…

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