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Orchestrate web crawls with Scrapyd and automated data enrichment

Ready for 3.0

by 21CEL · 631 views · created 2025-09-13 · Document Extraction

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This workflow has 21 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow”. It uses only n8n's built-in nodes.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow”.

  1. run_job (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API (POST)
  2. job_list (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  3. filter_job (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  4. check_job_status (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
  5. check_items (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  6. job_log (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  7. Wait: pauses before continuing
  8. Filter-result (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  9. If: checks a condition and branches into true / false
  10. Respond to Webhook: sends the response back to the webhook caller

…plus 10 more steps. See the full node list below.

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 (9)

From the author

How it works This workflow runs a spider job in the background via Scrapyd, using a YAML config that defines selectors and parsing rules. When triggered, it schedules the spider with parameters (query, project ID, page limits, etc.). The workflow polls…

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