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📍 Daily nearby garage sales alerts via Telegram

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Get a personalized list of garage sales happening today, based on your current location, directly in Telegram each morning! This n8n workflow integrates Home Assistant and Brocabrac.frto:

  • Automatically detect your location every day
  • Scrape and parse garage sale listings from Brocabrac
  • Filter for high-quality and nearby events
  • Send a neatly formatted message to your Telegram account

Perfect for treasure hunters and second-hand enthusiasts who want to stay in the loop with zero effort!

Daily Nearby Garage Sales Alerts via Telegram

This n8n workflow automates the process of finding nearby garage sales and sending daily alerts to a Telegram chat. It fetches data from a specified URL, processes the HTML content to extract garage sale listings, filters them by a defined radius, and then sends individual alerts for each qualifying sale.

What it does

  1. Manual Trigger / Schedule Trigger: The workflow can be initiated manually or set to run on a schedule (e.g., daily) to check for new listings.
  2. HTTP Request: It makes an HTTP GET request to a specified URL, likely a webpage listing garage sales.
  3. HTML Parsing: The received HTML content is parsed to extract structured data about each garage sale. This likely involves selecting specific HTML elements.
  4. Split Out: Each extracted garage sale listing is separated into individual items for further processing.
  5. Edit Fields (Set): Placeholder for potential data transformation or setting additional fields for each garage sale item.
  6. If: A conditional check is performed on each garage sale. This node likely filters sales based on proximity or other criteria (e.g., within a certain radius).
  7. Loop Over Items (Split in Batches): If multiple garage sales meet the criteria, the workflow processes them one by one.
  8. Telegram Notification: For each qualifying garage sale, a message is composed and sent to a specified Telegram chat.
  9. Home Assistant (Optional): An additional action to interact with Home Assistant, possibly to update a sensor or trigger an automation related to the garage sale alert.
  10. Sticky Note: Provides documentation or context within the workflow itself.
  11. Filter: This node is present but not connected in the provided JSON, suggesting it might be a placeholder or an unused component.

Prerequisites/Requirements

  • Telegram Account: To receive the daily alerts, you will need a Telegram account and a Bot Token configured with n8n.
  • Target Website URL: The URL of the website where garage sale listings are published.
  • Home Assistant (Optional): If you intend to use the Home Assistant integration, you will need a running Home Assistant instance and credentials configured in n8n.

Setup/Usage

  1. Import the workflow: Download the provided JSON and import it into your n8n instance.
  2. Configure Credentials:
    • Telegram: Set up your Telegram Bot API credentials in n8n.
    • Home Assistant (Optional): Configure your Home Assistant credentials if you plan to use this node.
  3. Customize HTTP Request: Update the "HTTP Request" node with the URL of the website you want to scrape for garage sales.
  4. Configure HTML Parsing: Adjust the "HTML" node to correctly parse the garage sale data from your chosen website. This will likely involve CSS selectors to extract titles, descriptions, locations, etc.
  5. Adjust "If" Node: Modify the conditions in the "If" node to define your desired filtering logic (e.g., distance from a specific location, keywords).
  6. Customize Telegram Message: Edit the "Telegram" node to format the message content as you prefer, using data extracted from the garage sale listings.
  7. Enable Schedule Trigger: If you want daily alerts, enable the "Schedule Trigger" node and configure its interval (e.g., once a day).
  8. Activate Workflow: Once configured, activate the workflow to start receiving alerts.

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