What are you using n8n for?

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I see n8n everywhere and while I love automation I can’t think of a use case, that couldn’t be realized in Bash instead.

So I’m wondering, if you use n8n what are you using it for?

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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Are there any a|ternatives to n8n?

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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The latest thing I’ve cobbled together with n8n is a routine that goes out to sol24.net and pulls in the current Aurora forecast and the current 7 day video of solar flares into my dashboard. I’ve always had a fascination with how the sun affects the earth and the protective layers of our atmosphere, since I was a child. I built my own 5 watt, code only, transmitter and receiver and would set in my room late nights collecting QSL cards and talking to people from all over the world . I quickly learned that the ionosphere and other protective layers affected how far my my little 5 watt signal would bounce. Solar flares burn holes in the ionosphere and prevent a good bounce halfway around the world. So the challenge was to pick days where there was good ionosphere coverage, and minimal solar flares in conjunction with antenna positioning.

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This is the current video which takes you from 11/29 to 12/5. It’s mind boggling to me the absolute power and energy represented: sol24.net/data/stereo_7day_euvi304.mp4

You could probably conjure up something in bash to do this, but I really like working in n8n.

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skeptomatic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Local hosted n8n: local AI llm agent (for privacy), that can use tools to search the web, check my emails and calendar, save memories, get Youtube transcript, etc.

Scheduled workflows to get me some stock info every morning.

Working on a research crawler with crawl4AI.

Only limitations seem to be my will to learn new stuff. I’m sure all this could be written in Python or something but I’m not a programmer.

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- Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ve done some of that stuff in Python, and n8n is just lovely, far simpler. You can also add a node that runs Python code in n8n, so you only gain simplicity, but lose almost nothing.
  
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uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Here is what I use it for:

Download top voted pictures from CivitAI

Pull weather data and get notified if it is going to rain

Subscribe to events posted by the police (polling their API)

Scrub lunch restaurants for todays menu

Get notified when a streamer I follow on twitch starts streaming

The same for YouTube but I haven’t finished this one yet.

Webhook (combined when a one file web page) to note down every time my oldest kid has this strange coughing.

Send me this week’s number (because some people use it and knowing that today is week 50 can be useful a few times a year).

I use ntfy for my notifications. I was also planning to monitor if I sold anything in Guild Wars 2 but I haven’t bothered setting up a table in a database to keep track of if I have seen the latest changes, otherwise I would get the same notification over and over.
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- irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Pull weather data and get notified if it is going to rain
  
  That’s a pretty respectful list you have there. I am working on something that will pull in weather data and forecast maps, but haven’t completed the flow yet.
  
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aurelian@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have it read out my calendar events as they happen and make a travel event added before any when I need to be somewhere.

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