{
"name": "LinkedIn Lead Discovery",
"nodes": [
{
"parameters": {},
"id": "trg-manual",
"name": "Manual Trigger",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger",
"typeVersion": 1,
"position": [
200,
300
]
},
{
"parameters": {
"jsCode": "// Configure search here. Each entry produces one DuckDuckGo query.\n// Rotates priority EU countries; adjust the roles list to widen/narrow targeting.\nconst countries = ['Germany','Netherlands','France','Sweden','Denmark','Finland','Norway','United Kingdom','Malta'];\nconst rolesGroup = '(\"founder\" OR \"CEO\" OR \"owner\" OR \"co-founder\" OR \"managing director\")';\nconst maxPerCountry = parseInt($env.DISCOVERY_PER_COUNTRY || '3', 10);\n\nreturn countries.map((c) => ({\n json: {\n country: c,\n query: `site:linkedin.com/in/ ${rolesGroup} \"${c}\"`,\n max_results: maxPerCountry\n }\n}));"
},
"id": "node-build-queries",
"name": "Build Search Queries",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
"typeVersion": 2,
"position": [
420,
300
]
},
{
"parameters": {
"options": {}
},
"id": "node-loop",
"name": "Loop Each Country",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.splitInBatches",
"typeVersion": 3,
"position": [
640,
300
]
},
{
"parameters": {
"method": "GET",
"url": "=https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q={{ encodeURIComponent($json.query) }}",
"sendHeaders": true,
"headerParameters": {
"parameters": [
{
"name": "user-agent",
"value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0 Safari/537.36"
}
]
},
"options": {
"response": {
"response": {
"responseFormat": "text",
"neverError": true,
"fullResponse": true
}
},
"timeout": 15000
}
},
"id": "node-search",
"name": "DuckDuckGo Search",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
"typeVersion": 4.2,
"position": [
860,
240
]
},
{
"parameters": {
"jsCode": "// Parse DDG HTML results, extract LinkedIn /in/ profile URLs + linked text.\nconst html = $input.item.json.body || '';\nconst country = $('Loop Each Country').item.json.country;\nconst maxResults = $('Loop Each Country').item.json.max_results;\n\n// DDG results look like:\n// Jane Doe - CEO at Acme - LinkedIn\nconst re = /]*class=\\\"result__a\\\"[^>]*href=\\\"([^\\\"]+)\\\"[^>]*>([\\s\\S]*?)<\\/a>/gi;\n\nconst out = [];\nconst seen = new Set();\nlet m;\nwhile ((m = re.exec(html)) !== null) {\n if (out.length >= maxResults) break;\n let href = m[1];\n const text = m[2].replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '').replace(/&/g,'&').replace(/'/g,\"'\").trim();\n\n // DDG wraps real URL in uddg= param\n const uddg = href.match(/[?&]uddg=([^&]+)/);\n if (uddg) href = decodeURIComponent(uddg[1]);\n\n // Only LinkedIn personal profiles\n if (!/linkedin\\.com\\/in\\//i.test(href)) continue;\n // Normalize\n const norm = href.split('?')[0].replace(/\\/+$/, '');\n if (seen.has(norm)) continue;\n seen.add(norm);\n\n // Parse \"First Last - Job at Company - LinkedIn\" style text\n let firstName = '', lastName = '', jobTitle = '', companyName = '';\n const parts = text.split(/\\s+[-–|·]\\s+/).map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);\n // First chunk is usually the name (drop trailing \"- LinkedIn\")\n const cleaned = parts.filter((p) => !/^linkedin$/i.test(p));\n if (cleaned.length >= 1) {\n const nameToks = cleaned[0].split(/\\s+/).filter(Boolean);\n firstName = nameToks[0] || '';\n lastName = nameToks.slice(1).join(' ') || '';\n }\n if (cleaned.length >= 2) {\n // Try \"Job at Company\" or \"Job @ Company\"\n const second = cleaned[1];\n const at = second.split(/\\s+(?:at|@)\\s+/i);\n if (at.length === 2) {\n jobTitle = at[0].trim();\n companyName = at[1].trim();\n } else {\n jobTitle = second;\n }\n }\n if (!companyName && cleaned.length >= 3) companyName = cleaned[2];\n\n if (!firstName || !/linkedin\\.com\\/in\\//.test(norm)) continue;\n\n out.push({\n json: {\n first_name: firstName,\n last_name: lastName,\n job_title: jobTitle || 'Founder',\n company_name: companyName || '',\n linkedin_url: norm,\n country\n }\n });\n}\nreturn out;"
},
"id": "node-parse",
"name": "Parse Results",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
"typeVersion": 2,
"position": [
1080,
240
]
},
{
"parameters": {
"operation": "executeQuery",
"query": "SELECT 1 FROM leads.linkedin_outreach_log WHERE linkedin_url = $1 LIMIT 1",
"options": {
"queryReplacement": "={{ $json.linkedin_url }}"
}
},
"id": "node-dedupe-check",
"name": "Already Contacted?",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.postgres",
"typeVersion": 2.5,
"position": [
1300,
240
],
"alwaysOutputData": true
},
{
"parameters": {
"conditions": {
"options": {
"caseSensitive": true,
"leftValue": "",
"typeValidation": "loose"
},
"conditions": [
{
"id": "is-new",
"leftValue": "={{ $json[\"?column?\"] }}",
"rightValue": "",
"operator": {
"type": "string",
"operation": "empty",
"singleValue": true
}
}
],
"combinator": "and"
},
"options": {}
},
"id": "node-filter-new",
"name": "Keep Only New",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.filter",
"typeVersion": 2.2,
"position": [
1520,
240
]
},
{
"parameters": {
"jsCode": "// At this point each item is the dedupe SELECT result merged with prospect via pairedItem.\n// Pull the prospect from the upstream 'Parse Results' node by pairedItem index.\nconst out = [];\nfor (let i = 0; i < $input.all().length; i++) {\n const prospect = $('Parse Results').all()[i];\n if (prospect) out.push(prospect);\n}\nreturn out;"
},
"id": "node-restore-prospect",
"name": "Restore Prospect Fields",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
"typeVersion": 2,
"position": [
1740,
240
]
},
{
"parameters": {
"amount": 4,
"unit": "seconds"
},
"id": "node-throttle",
"name": "Throttle Between Searches",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.wait",
"typeVersion": 1.1,
"position": [
1960,
240
]
},
{
"parameters": {},
"id": "node-merge",
"name": "Collect All",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.noOp",
"typeVersion": 1,
"position": [
2180,
240
]
},
{
"parameters": {
"jsCode": "// Aggregate all prospects from every iteration into a single { prospects: [...] } payload.\nconst all = $input.all().map((it) => it.json);\nreturn [{ json: { prospects: all, count: all.length } }];"
},
"id": "node-aggregate",
"name": "Aggregate Payload",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
"typeVersion": 2,
"position": [
2400,
300
]
},
{
"parameters": {
"method": "POST",
"url": "https://YOUR_N8N_HOST/webhook/linkedin-safe-outreach",
"sendBody": true,
"specifyBody": "json",
"jsonBody": "={{ JSON.stringify($json) }}",
"options": {
"response": {
"response": {
"neverError": true,
"fullResponse": true
}
}
}
},
"id": "node-forward",
"name": "Send to Outreach Webhook",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
"typeVersion": 4.2,
"position": [
2620,
300
]
}
],
"connections": {
"Manual Trigger": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Build Search Queries",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Build Search Queries": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Loop Each Country",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Loop Each Country": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Aggregate Payload",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
],
[
{
"node": "DuckDuckGo Search",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"DuckDuckGo Search": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Parse Results",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Parse Results": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Already Contacted?",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Already Contacted?": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Keep Only New",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Keep Only New": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Restore Prospect Fields",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Restore Prospect Fields": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Throttle Between Searches",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Throttle Between Searches": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Collect All",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Collect All": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Loop Each Country",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Aggregate Payload": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Send to Outreach Webhook",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
}
},
"settings": {
"executionOrder": "v1",
"saveExecutionProgress": true,
"saveManualExecutions": true
}
}