I see n8n everywhere and while I love automation I can’t think of a use case, that couldn’t be realized in Bash instead.

So I’m wondering, if you use n8n what are you using it for?

  • branch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Here is what I use it for:

    • Download top voted pictures from CivitAI
    • Pull weather data and get notified if it is going to rain
    • Subscribe to events posted by the police (polling their API)
    • Scrub lunch restaurants for todays menu
    • Get notified when a streamer I follow on twitch starts streaming
    • The same for YouTube but I haven’t finished this one yet.
    • Webhook (combined when a one file web page) to note down every time my oldest kid has this strange coughing.
    • Send me this week’s number (because some people use it and knowing that today is week 50 can be useful a few times a year).

    I use ntfy for my notifications. I was also planning to monitor if I sold anything in Guild Wars 2 but I haven’t bothered setting up a table in a database to keep track of if I have seen the latest changes, otherwise I would get the same notification over and over.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      2 days ago

      Pull weather data and get notified if it is going to rain

      That’s a pretty respectful list you have there. I am working on something that will pull in weather data and forecast maps, but haven’t completed the flow yet.

      • branch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        I wanted to do the same for One Punch Man but ended writing a bash script for it instead. File access and variables was the biggest hurdle (but both are solvable).

        Knowing if it is going to rain in the next hour is nice because I take the bike to work. I like to know which clothes to take with me.