How to Build Profile Lists with n8n

Creating accurate and targeted lists of contacts, investors, influencers, or leads can be extremely time-consuming, eating up precious hours of your team's capacity. Manual list building often means navigating fragmented sources, dealing with unreliable data, and painstakingly cross-verifying information—a cumbersome process prone to inaccuracies and inconsistencies. Professionals frequently leverage platforms such as LinkedIn or TikTok, where valuable profile information resides, yet manual retrieval and verification becomes impractical at scale due to limited search abilities, API restrictions, and lack of structured data outputs.

Enter Airtop’s powerful List Building Automation paired with n8n. This automation dramatically simplifies and accelerates your list-building operations by automatically sourcing, verifying, and structuring profile data from your chosen platforms. Leveraging real browser sessions and AI-powered processing, Airtop automates complex data collection processes across social and professional networks. Within minutes, this automation compiles structured and reliable profile data tailored precisely to your criteria, from LinkedIn influencers to industry-specific experts across platforms like TikTok.

This Airtop and n8n workflow ensures a consistently accurate profile output by verifying social profiles and domains through intelligent automation. Enjoy seamless integration with your existing tech stack thanks to built-in n8n compatibility, structured JSON outputs, and the flexibility to customize search parameters to fit your exact goals and requirements. Say goodbye to excessive manual research and unleash your team's productivity by automating your list building today.

Who is this Automation for?

• Sales and business development teams assembling targeted prospect lists

• Recruiters and HR professionals sourcing qualified candidates

• Investors and venture capital analysts tracking qualified investment leads

• Marketing and PR agencies identifying and engaging key influencers

Key Benefits

• Automated data collection and structured JSON output

• Real browser sessions ensuring precise and platform-compliant extraction

• Reduction of list-building time by up to 90%

• No-code integration via n8n supported workflows

Use Cases

• Building a highly targeted outreach list of angel investors across Europe

• Automatically sourcing top AI influencers from LinkedIn and TikTok

• Identifying and assembling accurate talent lists for niche tech roles

• Capturing detailed profiles of thought leaders in the finance industry

• Automating competitive intelligence lists focused on decision-makers

• Collecting structured profile data for effectively targeted marketing campaigns

Getting Started with the Build Lists of Profiles Automation

Kickstart your automated profile list building quickly and effortlessly with Airtop and n8n.

How the Build Lists of Profiles Automation Works

This automation workflow uses Airtop’s AI-driven capabilities integrated with n8n to systematically scan selected platforms (such as LinkedIn or TikTok), extracting and verifying specific profiles based on your input criteria. You enter your desired target audience and the platform into the n8n workflow, which triggers Airtop’s advanced data extraction. The automation collects unstructured profile details from various sources, cross-verifies and ranks them, then outputs a structured, verified list directly to a Google Sheet for easy integration into your existing workflow.

What You’ll Need

• A free Airtop account

• An n8n automation account

• An Airtop API Key (available at the Airtop Portal)

• Clear parameters for your target audience and the platform to focus on (LinkedIn, TikTok, etc.)

• A copy of the provided Google Sheet template

• No Airtop Profile authentication required for this automation

Setting Up the Automation

1. Click on Try Automation.

2. Select "Use for free" and follow the guided steps provided by n8n.

3. Enter your Airtop API Key and clearly define your parameters (target audience and platforms).

4. Select the copied Google Sheets template in the final node configuration.

5. Run the Automation. Optionally schedule future runs automatically within n8n.

Customize the Automation

Personalize your automated profile list to match exactly your specific business and workflow needs. With Airtop and n8n's flexible system, you can:

• Add custom filtering rules based on job titles, locations, or expertise areas.

• Integrate advanced data enrichment from additional data sources or third-party databases.

• Automatically export verified data directly into your preferred CRM or marketing platforms.

Automation Best Practices

• Ensure your criteria and target segments are well-defined and specific for best results.

• Refresh your search parameters regularly to maintain up-to-date and relevant lists.

• Combine multiple, varied parameters systematically to expand and fine-tune list coverage.

Try this Automation

Automate your list-building efforts and transform hours of tedious research into efficient, precise data collection with Airtop and n8n. The Build Lists of Profiles Automation (n8n) simplifies how you gather targeted profiles, helping you stay ahead in your competitive landscape. Need help customizing this automation? Book a Demo today!