📊 Automate Etsy data mining with Bright Data Scrape & Google Gemini

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Description

Who this is for?

The Automate Etsy Data Mining with Bright Data Scrape & Google Gemini workflow is designed for eCommerce analysts, product researchers, and AI developers seeking to extract actionable insights from Etsy listings at scale.

It is ideal for:

• eCommerce Entrepreneurs - Researching product demand and competition.

• Market Analysts - Tracking pricing, reviews, and trends across Etsy categories.

• Product Managers - Identifying niche opportunities and design inspirations.

• Data Scientists & AI Engineers - Automating product intelligence pipelines.

• Growth Hackers - Leveraging Etsy insights to refine product-market fit.

What problem is this workflow solving?

Manually browsing Etsy to analyze product listings, pricing, reviews, and seller activity is slow, inconsistent, and unscalable. Scraping Etsy requires unlocking JavaScript-heavy content and structuring noisy data for analysis.

This workflow solves:

• Automated and scalable scraping of Etsy product listings using Bright Data’s infrastructure.

• A fully paginated data structured Estry production data extraction via the Google Gemini LLM.

• Enables faster decision-making for product research and competitive analysis via the fully automated paginated data extraction.

What this workflow does

• Receives input: Sets the Esty URL for the data extraction and analysis.

• Uses Bright Data’s Web Unlocker to extract content from relevant sites.

• Cleans and preprocesses the scraped content for readability.

• Sends the content to Google Gemini for:

  • Enriched results including:

    • Data persistence over the disk.

    • Sends the response to a target system via Webhook notification.

Setup

• Sign up at Bright Data.
• Navigate to Proxies & Scraping and create a new Web Unlocker zone by selecting Web Unlocker API under Scraping Solutions.
• In n8n, configure the Header Auth account under Credentials (Generic Auth Type: Header Authentication). Header Authentication.png The Value field should be set with the Bearer XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. The XXXXXXXXXXXXXX should be replaced by the Web Unlocker Token.
• A Google Gemini API key (or access through Vertex AI or proxy).
• Update the Set Esty Search Query for setting the brand content URL and the Bright Data Zone name.
• Update the Webhook HTTP Request node with the Webhook endpoint of your choice.

How to customize this workflow to your needs

• Input Sources : Replace the static URL with dynamic input from Google Sheets, Webhook, or Airtable to research multiple niches.

• Prompt Customization : Adjust Gemini prompts to extract specific insights for example:

  • List key features of the product

  • Summarization of the review themes

• Data Output Options : Update the Webhook notification to save data to:

  • Google Sheets
  • Notion or Airtable
  • SQL/NoSQL
  • Slack/Email

🔗 Nodes Used

Function, HTTP Request, OpenAI Chat Model, Read/Write Files from Disk, Google Gemini Chat Model, Information Extractor

📥 Import

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

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup