scraperapi-n8n

A guide for creating n8n workflows that use ScraperAPI's official community node. n8n is a tool for connecting services through visual, multi-step workflows, and the guide can produce either importable workflow JSON or editor instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or export n8n workflows that scrape web pages through ScraperAPI. It helps automate scraping steps and pass their results to later workflow actions.
Why use it?
It turns web scraping into a repeatable workflow that can connect with other services in n8n. It also clarifies the setup needed for community nodes and how to choose the workflow format.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/scraperapi/scraperapi-skills/scraperapi-n8n
Any agent
npx skills add scraperapi/scraperapi-skills --skill scraperapi-n8n
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scraperapi/scraperapi-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 279 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,112 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00279 $0.06112
Opus 5 $0.00139 $0.03056
Sonnet 5 $0.00056 $0.01222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00611

Measured 2d ago against content hash fa240801c35d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scraperapi-n8n scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/scraperapi-n8n/SKILL.md · 549 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 549 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ScraperAPI in n8n — Workflow Generator

This skill helps you assemble n8n workflows around the official ScraperAPI community node (n8n-nodes-scraperapi-official). It supports two output shapes, picked from the user's phrasing:

User says … Produce
"give me the workflow JSON", "export", "I want to import this", "scaffold a .json" A complete, importable workflow JSON file
"walk me through it", "show me how to build", "in the n8n editor", "step by step" A numbered build guide referencing exact resource / operation / parameter names
Ambiguous Default to JSON. It's reversible — they can either import it or follow it as a recipe.

When you produce JSON, write it to a file in the working directory (e.g., scraperapi-workflow.json) and tell the user to import it via Workflows → Import from File in the n8n UI. When you produce a build guide, format the steps for the n8n editor (resource picker → operation picker → fields).

Prerequisites the user must have

  1. An n8n instance (Cloud, self-hosted, or desktop) where they can install community nodes. On self-hosted instances, an instance owner must enable community nodes first.
  2. The community node installed: Settings → Community Nodes → Install → n8n-nodes-scraperapi-official. After install, "ScraperAPI" appears in the node picker.
  3. A ScraperAPI API key from https://dashboard.scraperapi.com/. They create the credential once via Credentials → New → ScraperAPI API and paste the key. The credential is named ScraperAPI API in the UI and scraperApi-Api in the workflow JSON.

If the user is on n8n Cloud and the workflow JSON references this node, importing will succeed only after the community node is installed in their instance. Mention this when handing over JSON.

Four resources — pick the right one

The ScraperAPI node has one operation surface (resource) with four branches. Choose based on the job:

Job Resource Why
Scrape an arbitrary URL and get HTML/Markdown/Text/JSON api General-purpose proxy. Hand it any URL.
Get clean JSON from a supported site (Amazon, Google, eBay, Walmart, Redfin) sde Pre-parsed structured data. Saves a Set/Code node for HTML parsing and is more reliable across site changes.
Crawl multiple pages from one starting URL, streaming results to a webhook crawler Multi-page jobs that follow links. Returns a jobId; results arrive at your webhook, not as the node's output.
Extract custom structured JSON from many similarly-structured pages on a site with no SDE aiparser Build a reusable AI parser once from example URLs, then apply it to any similar page. Asynchronous: create → poll status → parse.

Read the full file on GitHub · 549 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 549 lines · 279 tokens per session scan A fa240801c35d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scraperapi-n8n is a skill published in the GitHub repository scraperapi/scraperapi-skills (10 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 279 tokens to every session and 6,112 once invoked, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.