🎣 Skip tracing: Extract phones & emails from TruePeopleSearch with Zyte API

⚡ 849 views · 🎣 Lead Generation & Enrichment

💡 Pro Tip — HTTP Request scraping tends to break when sites update their markup. If you’re scraping a major platform, check if ScraperNode covers it — it has maintained scrapers for LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and 20+ other platforms that return structured data.

Description

TruePeopleSearch Scraper for Skip Tracers

Enrich any list of people with verified contact info using this workflow.
This n8n automation scrapes TruePeopleSearch using Zyte’s extraction API to safely bypass bot protection and extract detailed profiles. It’s built for data brokers, skip tracers, and real estate professionals who need clean contact data (phone, email, address) from names alone — even when the main profile is empty.

If the original profile lacks a phone number, the workflow intelligently scrapes one of their listed relatives instead — giving you the best possible chance of finding a valid number.

What this workflow does

• Pulls lead data (first name, last name, and custom search URL) from a Google Sheet
• Sends the TruePeopleSearch search URL to Zyte’s Scraping API to retrieve search results HTML
• Parses the first matching profile link from the results (by full name > first name > last name)
• Visits that profile page and extracts:
  • Full Name
  • Age / Date of Birth
  • Primary Phone Number
  • Other Phone Numbers
  • Email Addresses
  • Current Address
• If no phone numbers are found:
  • Detects a relative’s profile link
  • Scrapes the relative’s profile for fallback contact data
• Writes all scraped information (or empty fields) back into the same row in Google Sheets

You’ll need

• n8n (self-hosted or cloud)
  To run and automate the workflow

• Zyte Scraping API
  A Zyte account + API key to access their /extract endpoint
  (Use HTTP Basic Auth in the HTTP Request node)

• Google Sheets integration
  Your own lead sheet with headers like:

  • row_number (used to write back to the correct row)
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • SearchURL (Search by Address)

• Basic JavaScript familiarity (optional)
  To tweak the HTML parsing logic for profile structure changes

Example Google Sheet

Use this Google Sheet as a template for your inputs and outputs:
👉 TruePeopleSearch Lead Template (Google Sheet)

Disclaimer

• TruePeopleSearch may change its structure or block heavy scraping — always test at small scale first
• This workflow is built to simulate human behavior via Zyte’s smart rendering — scraping is still subject to site limitations
• Use ethically and within your local data usage laws

Categories

Data Enrichment · Scraping Automation · Lead Generation · Skip Tracing

Feel free to drop me an email if you need help with building a custom scraping automation for your business at sajid@marketingbyprof.com

🔗 Nodes Used

Google Sheets, HTTP Request, Webhook, Filter

📥 Import

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

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup