📊 Monitor TikTok hashtag trends with Apify and send ranked reports via Gmail
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💡 Pro Tip — Since TikTok doesn’t have a public API, getting data usually means fragile HTTP scraping. ScraperNode is a community node that gives you clean JSON for TikTok profiles, videos, and comments — drop it into your workflow and skip the parsing.
Description
Who it’s for
This workflow is for social media managers, content strategists, and marketing teams who need to track TikTok engagement trends across multiple hashtags on a recurring basis — without manually checking each one.
How it works
- A schedule trigger fires the workflow at a configured interval (e.g., daily or hourly).
- A list of hashtag queries is retrieved from an n8n Data Table.
- Each query is processed in a loop: a POST request is sent to the Apify TikTok scraper API, which returns up to 50 recent posts per hashtag from the past 7 days.
- A first Code node computes a weighted engagement score for each post:
likes × 1 + comments × 2 + shares × 3 + views / 1000. - A second Code node re-ranks the posts, assigns a level (High / Medium / Low), and formats the top 15 results.
- The ranked results are saved to an n8n Data Table for persistence and simultaneously sent as a styled HTML email report via Gmail.
- The loop continues to the next query batch until all hashtags are processed.
How to set up
- Connect your Apify account credentials to the Scrape TikTok via Apify HTTP Request node
- Connect your Gmail account (OAuth2) to the Send TikTok Report by Email node and set the recipient address
- Configure the Get Queries from Table node to point to your Data Table containing the list of hashtags to monitor
- Configure the Save Rankings to Table node to point to the destination Data Table where results should be stored
- Set the desired run frequency in the When Schedule Triggers node
- Adjust the scoring weights in the Score and Sort TikTok Posts code node if needed
Requirements
- Apify account with access to the
clockworks~tiktok-scraperactor - Gmail account with OAuth2 credentials configured in n8n
- Two n8n Data Tables: one for input queries, one for storing ranked results
How to customize
- Adjust the engagement scoring formula in the
Score and Sort TikTok Postsnode to weight views, shares, or comments differently based on your priorities. - Extend the email template to include additional social platforms (Reddit, Instagram) by adding parallel scraping branches before the ranking step.
- Change the
resultsPerPageoroldestPostDateUnifiedparameters in the Apify API call to control the volume and recency of posts fetched.
🔗 Nodes Used
HTTP Request, Gmail, Schedule Trigger, Data table
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File