🎣 Lead enrichment pipeline: Leadfeeder to Apollo to Google Sheets

⚡ 117 views · 🎣 Lead Generation & Enrichment

💡 Pro Tip — For lead enrichment, ScraperNode can pull LinkedIn profiles, company data, and job listings directly into your pipeline — useful for building prospect lists without manual research.

Description

Fresh enriched leads in your Sheet every morning. This automation pulls yesterday’s website visitors from Leadfeeder, enriches them with Apollo.io company data, deduplicates smartly into Google Sheets, and pings your team on Telegram when attention is needed.

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Last updated: September 2026.

What This Does

This automation creates a seamless daily pipeline that:

• Pulls yesterday’s website visitors from Leadfeeder
• Enriches company data using Apollo.io’s powerful database
• Delivers enriched leads to your Google Sheets with smart deduplication
• Alerts your team via Telegram when something needs attention

Why Automate Your Lead Enrichment?

Reclaim Your Time
Stop the copy-paste busywork.

Never Miss a Hot Lead
Yesterday’s visitors captured and enriched automatically.

Enable Faster Outreach
Enriched records mean SDRs reach out the same day with full context. Faster follow-up, higher conversion.

API-Friendly Design
Built-in pagination, rate limiting (40s delay), and smart stop logic prevent API throttling and account issues.

Perfect For These Teams

Growth Marketers
A daily pipeline of enriched accounts for targeted campaigns and ABM strategies.

Sales Ops & SDR Managers
Reps start each day with high-quality, enriched leads in a shared workspace.

Data & BI Teams
A lightweight source-of-truth for lead activity without complex ETL pipelines.

Workflow Overview

Daily Trigger (9 AM) → Fetch Account → Generate Pages → Retrieve Leads → 
Enrich with Apollo → Update Google Sheets → Send Alerts

Trigger
Runs automatically every day at 9:00 AM server time

Process Flow

1. Fetch your Leadfeeder Account ID
2. Generate smart pagination (up to 50 pages with safety cap)
3. Retrieve yesterday’s leads in batches of 100
4. Split and process individual records
5. Enrich each company using Apollo’s database
6. Append or update rows in Google Sheets with deduplication

Smart Logic

• Pre-generates page sequences with safety limits
• Stops automatically when pages return <100 results
• Normalizes website URLs and handles Apollo field fallbacks
• Implements intelligent rate limiting to respect API limits

Output

• Clean, enriched data in your Google Sheets
• Telegram alerts for any workflow errors
• Automatic deduplication using ID matching

Quick Setup Guide

1. Import & Configure

Import the JSON workflow file to your n8n instance

2. Add Your Credentials

Set up these integrations in n8n:

• Leadfeeder: HTTP Header Auth with Bearer token
• Apollo: HTTP Header Auth with API key
• Google Sheets: OAuth2 with edit permissions
• Telegram: Bot Token + Chat ID for alerts

3. Update Sheet Configuration

• Replace documentId with your Google Sheets URL or from list
• Set correct sheetName (gid) in Google Sheets nodes
• Verify column mapping matches your sheet structure

4. Test Your Setup

Run a test with yesterday’s date to confirm:

• Leads are retrieved from Leadfeeder
• Apollo enrichment populates correctly
• Rows append/update in Google Sheets
• Telegram alerts work for errors

Level Up Your Automation

CRM Integration

Push enriched leads directly into HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive for automatic sequences and follow-up campaigns.

Daily Intelligence Reports

Add Slack or email summaries highlighting high-value accounts by revenue, employee count, or industry vertical.

Smart Routing

Route leads to specific team members based on company size, industry, or geographic location.

Data Flow Structure

Each lead goes through this enrichment pipeline:

1. Raw Lead: Company name, website, visit data from Leadfeeder
2. Apollo Enrichment: Industry, size, revenue, contact info, social profiles
3. Sheet Update: Merged data with smart deduplication and timestamp tracking

Quick Answers

When does it run?
Daily at 9:00 AM server time, pulling yesterday’s visitors.
When does it stop paging?
Automatically, once a page returns fewer than 100 results (50-page safety cap).
How are duplicates handled?
ID-based matching appends or updates rows instead of duplicating them.

Support

Made by: khmuhtadin
Support: Contact for Custom Work
Category: Sales Automation, Lead Generation, Data Enrichment
Tags: lead-generation, leadfeeder, apollo, google-sheets, lead-enrichment, sales-automation

Additional info

Built with n8n. Need an assessment on your business? Feel free to reach out at https://khmuhtadin.com/consultation/

🔗 Nodes Used

Google Sheets, HTTP Request, Telegram, Schedule Trigger

📥 Import

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

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup