🎣 LinkedIn profile finder via form using Bright Data & GPT-4o-mini

⚡ 7,925 views · 🎣 Lead Generation & Enrichment

💡 Pro Tip — If you’re pulling LinkedIn data through HTTP requests or dealing with API restrictions, there’s a community node called ScraperNode that handles this natively. It has dedicated scrapers for profiles, companies, jobs, and people search — you just pass a URL and get structured data back.

Description

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This n8n workflow template automates the process of finding LinkedIn profiles for a person based on their name, and company. It scrapes Google search results via Bright Data, parses the results with GPT-4o-mini, and delivers a personalized follow-up email with insights and suggested outreach steps.

🚀 What It Does

• Accepts a user-submitted form with a person’s full name, and company.
• Performs a Google search using Bright Data to find LinkedIn profiles and company data.
• Uses GPT-4o-mini to parse HTML results and identify matching profiles.
• Filters and selects the most relevant LinkedIn entry.
• Analyzes the data to generate a buyer persona and follow-up strategy.
• Sends a styled email with insights and outreach steps.

🛠️ Step-by-Step Setup

1. Deploy the form trigger to accept person data (name, position, company).
2. Build a Google search query from user input.
3. Scrape search results using Bright Data.
4. Extract HTML content using the HTML node.
5. Use GPT-4o-mini to parse LinkedIn entries and company insights.
6. Filter for matches based on user input.
7. Merge relevant data and generate personalized outreach content.
8. Send email to a predefined address.
9. Show a final confirmation message to the user.

🧠 How It Works: Workflow Overview

• Trigger: When User Completes Form
• Search: Edit Url LinkedIn, Get LinkedIn Entry on Google, Extract Body and Title, Parse Google Results
• Matching: Extract Parsed Results, Filter, Limit, IF LinkedIn Profile is Found?
• Fallback: Form Not Found if no match
• Company Lookup: Edit Company Search, Get Company on Google, Parse Results, Split Out
• Content Generation: Merge, Create a Followup for Company and Person
• Email Delivery: Send Email, Form Email Sent

📨 Final Output An HTML-styled email (using Tailwind CSS) with:

• Matched LinkedIn profile
• Company insights
• Persona-based outreach strategy

🔐 Credentials Used

• BrightData account for scraping Google search results
• OpenAI account for GPT-4o-mini-powered parsing and content generation
• SMTP account for sending follow-up emails

❓Questions? Template and node created by Miquel Colomer and n8nhackers.

Need help customizing or deploying? Contact us for consulting and support.

🔗 Nodes Used

Send Email, Filter, n8n Form Trigger, OpenAI, n8n Form

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup