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Overview

The "Scrape Creators" node provides real-time social media data scraping capabilities across multiple platforms, including Truth Social. Specifically, the "Get TruthSocial Post" operation allows users to retrieve detailed information about a specific post on Truth Social by providing its URL. This is useful for monitoring content, analyzing social media engagement, or aggregating posts for further processing.

Practical examples include:

  • Fetching the details of a Truth Social post to analyze its content and metadata.
  • Integrating Truth Social post data into dashboards or reports.
  • Automating content monitoring workflows based on specific Truth Social posts.

Properties

Name Meaning
URL The URL of the Truth Social post to retrieve. For example: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114691752952220639. This property is required for the operation.

Output

The node outputs JSON data representing the scraped details of the specified Truth Social post. This typically includes the post's content, author information, timestamps, engagement metrics (such as likes or comments), and any other metadata provided by the scraping API.

If the node supports binary data output (not explicitly shown in the provided code), it would likely represent media associated with the post, such as images or videos.

Dependencies

  • Requires an API key credential for accessing the Scrape Creators API service.
  • The node sends requests to the base URL https://api.scrapecreators.com with appropriate headers including the API key.
  • Users must configure the API key credential within n8n to authenticate requests.

Troubleshooting

  • Invalid or missing URL: Ensure the URL provided is a valid Truth Social post URL. Incorrect URLs will result in errors or empty responses.
  • Authentication errors: Verify that the API key credential is correctly set up and has sufficient permissions.
  • API rate limits: The external scraping service may impose rate limits; hitting these limits can cause request failures.
  • Network issues: Connectivity problems between n8n and the scraping API endpoint can cause timeouts or errors.
  • Unexpected response structure: Changes in the Truth Social website or API might affect the scraping results, leading to incomplete or malformed data.

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