n8n Template Authors · Emails from Their Sites

Export unique n8n template authors with a public email and phone from their website — one author per row, not one row per workflow.

No login. No n8n API key. No n8n Cloud account.

Free plan: 20 unique authors / run. Paid plans follow your PPE budget.

What does n8n Template Author Emails do?

This Actor builds an outreach / partnership file from the public n8n workflow templates. Template mills already dump JSON. You want the people who publish those templates: who to email, which site they run, how many templates they listed.

n8n does not list author emails on the template card (user.links is a website or social URL). Each row is that file when the creator publishes it on their own site:

• Public inbox (mailto: or email in the page) from the homepage and contact / legal pages
• Phone when they publish a tel: link
• Website, domain, n8n creator URL, template portfolio in this run

Empty developerEmail means the author did not publish an inbox (form / chat / GitHub-only) or the site refused the visit — not a guessed john@agency.com. Two templates from the same website stay one lead.

Who is this for?

You are…	Typical goal	Suggested setup
n8n / automation agency	Creators already selling templates	Category Lead Generation, Find public emails On
Integration SaaS SDR	Authors who ship HubSpot / CRM workflows	Keyword hubspot, cap 20, Outreach view
Marketplace / partner manager	Verified creators with a site	Verified Yes, emails On
Outbound / Clay ops	Domain + inbox for CRM	Filter contactStatus = email
Market research	Full public catalog	Mode Full catalog (paid); emails Off if you only need domains

What you get by default: unique author, public email when the creator site lists one, phone when listed, website, sample template, n8n profile. Official n8n usernames are skipped unless you turn that filter off.

website_only only appears when Find public emails is Off, or the author listed no crawlable site (GitHub / LinkedIn only). After a site visit with no mailbox the status is no_contact.

How to use

1. Open this Actor in Apify Console.
2. Step 1 — Mode: leave Search (a niche or a pasted template URL) or switch to Full catalog (every unique author, paid).
3. Step 2 — Search: leave category Lead Generation, type hubspot, or paste https://n8n.io/workflows/11807.
4. Keep Find public emails On. Leave Max authors at 20 for a first run, then raise it (Search up to 2,000; Full catalog up to 5,000).
5. Click Start. Download JSON / CSV / Excel. Outreach = first email. Overview = email + templates + profile.

Ready-made Console tasks

Four Actor tasks on your account (Examples tab needs a public Actor):

Example	Console
Unique n8n Lead Generation template authors with emails	task
n8n Marketing template authors	task
n8n AI template authors for outreach	task
Refresh one author from a template URL	task

When this Actor is Store-public, the same four tasks can land on the Examples tab.

What it extracts

Field	Why it matters
developerEmail, emails, emailSource	Public inbox from the creator site (publisher-website)
phone, phones	Public tel: on the author site
contactStatus	Filter: email / email_and_phone vs no_contact vs crawl_failed. website_only = emails Off or no site
publisherName, authorUsername, website, websiteDomain	Person + clean host for CRM match
templateCount, sampleTemplateName, sampleTemplateUrl, n8nCreatorUrl	Portfolio + n8n profile
verified, githubUrl, linkedinUrl, twitterUrl	Badge + socials from user.links
websiteFetchUrl, scrapedAt	Which site page produced an inbox

Not extracted (and not invented): n8n Cloud login emails, guessed firstname@domain patterns, workflow JSON, node graphs, or paid-template checkout emails.

How it works

1. Read public templates (name, views, author, website / socials).
2. Deduplicate by website domain, else n8n username.
3. n8n never lists an inbox on the template.
4. If Find public emails is On, open the creator site (homepage + contact pages).
5. Write unique authors as they become complete — inbox when they published one.

Input

{
  "coverage": "search",
  "category": "Lead Generation",
  "maxAuthors": 20,
  "websiteEnrichment": "yes"
}

Field	Notes
coverage	search or catalog
query	Keyword, https://n8n.io/workflows/{id}, or https://n8n.io/creators/{username}
category	Public template category (Sales, Marketing, AI, …)
maxAuthors	Unique author cap. 0 = no extra cap. Default 20
skipOfficialN8n	Default skip official n8n usernames
verifiedOnly	Optional verified-creators filter
websiteEnrichment	yes / no — crawl the author site
proxyConfiguration	API-only. Cloud runs can pass Apify Proxy if a site blocks datacenter HTTP

Output example

{
  "publisherName": "Țugui Dragoș",
  "authorUsername": "tuguidragos",
  "website": "https://tuguidragos.com",
  "websiteDomain": "tuguidragos.com",
  "developerEmail": null,
  "contactStatus": "no_contact",
  "emailSource": null,
  "templateCount": 1,
  "sampleTemplateUrl": "https://n8n.io/workflows/11807",
  "n8nCreatorUrl": "https://n8n.io/creators/tuguidragos"
}

developerEmail is filled when the creator site publishes a mailbox. Filter contactStatus = email before a sequencer.

How much does it cost to scrape n8n template authors?

Pay-per-event on unique authors (not per workflow), plus a small charge when a website is opened.

Scenario	Approx. cost (FREE tier)
20 authors, Find public emails On	Start + 20 × $0.002 + crawls × $0.0015 ≈ $0.08
1,000 authors with emails On	~$3.50 plus compute
1,000 authors, emails Off (domains only)	~$2.05

Higher Apify subscription tiers pay less per row (down to $0.001 / author). HTTP-only — no browser.

Is it legal to scrape n8n templates?

This Actor only reads public template cards and public pages on the creator’s own website. As with any file that may contain personal emails, make sure your use complies with GDPR and similar rules. Do not use the dataset to spam.

Local development

cd n8n-template-author-contacts
npm ci
npm test
apify run --purge --input-file=./input.json

storage/ is local-only. Inspect storage/datasets/default.

Also available

Zapier Apps · Publisher Emails by Category — same unique-vendor + website inbox job on Zapier.

Support

Contact corentin@outreacher.fr if you need a custom scraper or tailored automation.