Description

n8n-nodes-syphoon

A community node for n8n that connects to the Syphoon web scraping API. Pass any URL and get back structured, typed data – no CSS selectors, no XPath, no browser setup required.

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Operations

| Operation | Description |
|—|—|
| Scrape URL | Scrapes any URL and returns structured data. Automatically detects the page type and populates the relevant fields. |

Output fields (always present)

| Field | Description |
|—|—|
| url | Canonical URL that was scraped |
| source | Hostname of the scraped page |
| scraped_at | ISO 8601 timestamp |
| pagetype | Detected type: product, article, recipe, job, event, video, realestate, forum, documentation, or generic |
| title | Page title |
| description | Meta description or lead paragraph |
| body_text | Main readable content, stripped of nav/footer noise |
| author | Byline or author name |
| published_at | Publication date (ISO 8601) |
| images | Array of image URLs found on the page |
| links | Array of { url, text } outbound links |
| schema_types | Detected schema.org types (e.g. ["Product", "BreadcrumbList"]) |
| schema_raw | Full parsed ld+json blocks |

Type-specific fields

When page_type is detected as one of the following, additional structured fields are populated:

• product – name, brand, sku, price, pricenumeric, currency, availability, rating, reviewcount, category
• recipe – name, cuisine, cooktime, preptime, total_time, yield, ingredients, instructions
• job – title, company, location, employmenttype, salary, postedat, description
• event – name, startdate, enddate, location, organizer, price
• video – title, duration, uploaddate, channel, viewcount

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Installation

In n8n (recommended)

1. Go to Settings → Community Nodes
2. Click Install
3. Enter n8n-nodes-syphoon
4. Click Install

Via npm (self-hosted)

npm install n8n-nodes-syphoon

Then restart your n8n instance.

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Authentication

This node uses an API key credential.

1. Sign up at syphoon.com
2. Go to Dashboard → API Keys and create a new key
3. In n8n, go to Credentials → New → Syphoon API
4. Paste your API key and save

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Usage example

Scrape a product page

1. Add a Syphoon node to your workflow
2. Select your Syphoon API credential
3. Set URL to any product page, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09G9FPHY6
4. Execute the node

Example output:

{
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09G9FPHY6",
  "page_type": "product",
  "title": "Echo Dot (5th Gen)",
  "product": {
    "name": "Echo Dot (5th Gen)",
    "brand": "Amazon",
    "price": "$49.99",
    "price_numeric": 49.99,
    "currency": "USD",
    "availability": "InStock",
    "rating": 4.7,
    "review_count": 28453
  }
}

Use in a workflow

Combine with other n8n nodes to build pipelines like:

• Price monitoring – Schedule → Syphoon → IF (price changed) → Slack/email alert
• Content aggregation – RSS Feed → Syphoon → Airtable (store full article body)
• Job board scraper – HTTP Request (list page) → Split In Batches → Syphoon → Google Sheets

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Resources

• Syphoon documentation
• n8n community nodes docs
• n8n community forum

License

MIT