📊 Weekly LinkedIn connections sync & analysis with Apify and Google Sheets

⚡ 141 views · 📊 Market Research & Insights

💡 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

💼 Auto-Sync LinkedIn Connections to Google Sheets (Apify + n8n)

This workflow automatically scrapes your LinkedIn connections using Apify, processes the data, and logs it into a structured Google Sheet every week. It also generates a summary of top companies, locations, and industries across your network.

⚙️ How It Works

1. Weekly Sync (Sunday 2 AM)

   • A Cron node triggers the workflow weekly (default: Sunday at 2 AM).
   • Frequency can be adjusted.

2. Start LinkedIn Scrape

   • Calls the Apify LinkedIn Scraper Actor with your credentials.
   • Initiates a scraping run for all your LinkedIn connections.

3. Extract Run ID & Wait

   • Extracts the scrape run ID from Apify’s response.
   • Waits 30 seconds before checking status (retries every 60s until completed).

4. Check Scrape Status

   • Confirms if the scrape has finished successfully.
   • If not completed, waits and retries until done.

5. Get Scraped Data

   • Fetches scraped connection data from the Apify dataset.
   • Includes fields like name, title, company, location, industry, mutual connections, and profile URL.

6. Process Connections Data

   • A Code node cleans and normalizes the scraped data.
   • Removes incomplete profiles, trims whitespace, merges duplicate fields.

7. Save to Google Sheets

   • Clears existing data and appends the latest connections to your Google Sheet.
   • Headers include:

     Name | Title | Company | Location | Profile URL 
     Connection Date | Industry | Mutual Connections

8. Generate Sync Summary

   • Analyzes all saved connections.
   • Produces quick stats:
     • Total connections synced
     • Top 5 companies
     • Top 5 locations
     • Industry breakdown

🛠️ Setup Steps

1. Apify Setup

• Sign up at apify.com.
• Get your API token from account settings.
• Use the LinkedIn Scraper Actor.
• Add your LinkedIn session cookies for stable results.

⚠️ Respect LinkedIn’s Terms of Service.

2. Google Sheets

• Create a Google Sheet with headers:
  Name | Title | Company | Location | Profile URL | Connection Date | Industry | Mutual Connections
• Copy the Sheet ID from the URL.
• Replace YOUR_GOOGLE_SHEET_ID in the workflow.

3. Credentials

• Add Apify API Token as an HTTP header credential in n8n.
• Connect your Google Sheets OAuth account.

4. Scheduling

• Default: runs every Sunday at 2 AM.
• Modify the Cron node to adjust frequency.

📊 Example Output (Google Sheets Row)

📈 Example Sync Summary

✅ LinkedIn sync completed: 248 connections saved 🏢 Top companies: Acme Corp, Deloitte, Google, Meta, Amazon 🌍 Top locations: New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Toronto 📌 Industries: Marketing (32), Tech (45), Finance (28), Consulting (20)

⚡ With this workflow, your LinkedIn connections stay automatically logged and analyzed — ready for outreach, reporting, or CRM import.

🔗 Nodes Used

Cron, Google Sheets, HTTP Request

📥 Import

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

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup