Notify on Discord about new Epic Games free game releases

by Pawel · 3,810 views · created 2025-06-05 · Personal Productivity

What this workflow does

This workflow has 20 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day at 19:00). Along the way it connects Discord and Puppeteer (community). It also calls discord.com over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every day at 19:00).

1. Set Retries (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: retries
2. GET Epic Games Free Games page (Puppeteer): uses Puppeteer
3. Extract offers (HTML): parses or builds HTML
4. If: checks a condition and branches into true / false
5. Split Out: splits a list into separate items
6. Wait: waits 10 seconds
7. Extract title and image (HTML): parses or builds HTML
8. Extract label (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: label
9. Update Retries (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: retries
10. Prepare data (Merge): merges the data from its input branches

…plus 9 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

DiscordPuppeteer (community)

HTTP calls to: discord.com

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Nodes used (12)

• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• HTMLn8n-nodes-base.html
• Split Outn8n-nodes-base.splitOut
• Edit Fields (Set)n8n-nodes-base.set
• Mergen8n-nodes-base.merge
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code
• Filtern8n-nodes-base.filter
• Waitn8n-nodes-base.wait
• Ifn8n-nodes-base.if
• Discordn8n-nodes-base.discord
• Puppeteern8n-nodes-puppeteer.puppeteer
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest

From the author

Description Very straightforward workflow. It checks the Epic Games website if the HTML container with free games has changed. If it did then it will send a notification to Discord with a list of embeds containing those games. Requirements - You will need to…

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