# n8n / Make Template Pricing Scraper (`conceivable_extension/n8n-make-template-pricing-scraper`) Actor

Tracks pricing, category, and popularity signals for paid workflow templates on the n8n Creator Portal and Make marketplace, for competitive pricing intelligence.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/conceivable\_extension/n8n-make-template-pricing-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [joseph fadero](https://apify.com/conceivable_extension) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 price change detecteds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## n8n / Make Template Pricing Scraper

Tracks pricing, category, and popularity signals for paid workflow templates on the n8n Creator Portal and Make marketplace, for competitive pricing intelligence.

This is primarily an **internal pricing-research tool** built to monitor how competing automation template creators price their work. It has a small addressable public buyer pool — most users of this data will be n8n/Make template creators or agencies pricing their own catalog, not a broad audience — so it's priced low across the board on purpose.

### How it works

- **n8n**: `https://n8n.io/workflows/` is a Nuxt app. Investigating it live turned up a real, public, unauthenticated JSON API it calls server-side — `https://api.n8n.io/api/templates/search` — which returns clean structured data (id, name, price, totalViews, createdAt, creator) for every template. No HTML scraping needed; this actor calls that API directly.
- **Make**: `https://www.make.com/en/templates` was investigated live the same way. Unlike n8n, the entire `www.make.com` domain returns an HTTP 403 Cloudflare managed-JS-challenge page to any non-browser request, with no embedded JSON state reachable. A real, structurally complete cheerio parser (`src/sources/makeParser.ts`) is included and ready to work if that block lifts or a browser-based fetch is added in a future revision, but a live run today will honestly report 0 Make results with a clear log message rather than fabricate data.

Each platform is handled by its own independent parser module (`src/sources/n8nParser.ts`, `src/sources/makeParser.ts`) — the two marketplaces are structurally unrelated, so no shared/unified parser is used.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `platform` | select `n8n` | `make` | `n8n` | Which marketplace to scrape. |
| `category` | string | — | Optional category/topic filter. Applied as a search term. |
| `keywords` | string\[] | `[]` | Optional keywords to match against template titles/descriptions. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `50` | Upper bound on templates fetched per run. |

`platform` has a real `default` (not just a `prefill`), so an unattended QA run with no input body still runs successfully against live n8n data.

### Output (per template)

`platform`, `title`, `price` (number, `0` for free templates), `category`, `creatorName`, `popularitySignal` (n8n's public view count; `null` where not publicly shown), `publishedDate`, `url`, plus internal `templateId` and `scrapedAt`.

### Change tracking

A named key-value store (`n8n-make-template-pricing-state`) persists each template's last-seen price/category across runs, so repeat runs can tell new listings, price changes, and unchanged templates apart. A named store is used deliberately — an unnamed `Actor.openKeyValueStore()` call is scoped to the current run only and never persists.

### Pricing (Pay Per Event)

| Event | Price | When |
|---|---|---|
| `apify-actor-start` | $0.05 | Once per run (built-in, auto-charged). |
| `apify-default-dataset-item` | $0.001 | Per dataset item pushed, including unchanged re-checks (built-in, auto-charged via `pushData`'s second argument). |
| `new-template-scraped` | $0.003 | First time a template ID is seen across any prior run. |
| `price-change-detected` (primary) | $0.005 | A previously-seen template's price differs from the last recorded value. |

All manual charges use `Actor.charge({ eventName })`, and every event name here matches a configured PPE event exactly — no `apify-default-dataset-item` is ever charged manually (Apify rejects that).

# Actor input Schema

## `platform` (type: `string`):

Which template marketplace to scrape.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Optional category or topic name to filter templates by (e.g. 'AI', 'Sales', 'CRM'). Applied as a search term on n8n; matched against listed category text on Make.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Optional keywords to search for within template titles/descriptions.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on the number of templates to fetch in this run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "platform": "n8n",
  "keywords": [],
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `resultsDatasetUrl` (type: `string`):

Dataset of template pricing records produced by this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "platform": "n8n",
    "keywords": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("conceivable_extension/n8n-make-template-pricing-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "platform": "n8n",
    "keywords": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("conceivable_extension/n8n-make-template-pricing-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "platform": "n8n",
  "keywords": []
}' |
apify call conceivable_extension/n8n-make-template-pricing-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,conceivable_extension/n8n-make-template-pricing-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ydz95GFkQwZyC1JVf/builds/tdkwwX63Qalpumy21/openapi.json