Add n8n integration

feature
1

n8n pls, it’s trending and yt influencer and their grandma are posting n8n tuts, activepieces is too bloated when installing/upgrading locally, unless you’re on cloud lifetime plan.

It’s basically sending a webhook payload (scm data, but different data for each tools) to automation platform api, and let the user handle the scm data sent in the platform itself.

If we talking about 2 way integration, scm must develop a tunnel service (Pinokio has this, for inspiration) or create tutorial using cloudflare/ngrok tunnel to expose local port so any automation platform can post/get to scm api endpoint.

1 Like
2

Ok ll look into it.

Ill do what ever is easier as well first.

2 Likes
3

What kind of things would you like to do with SCM and n8n.

I need a example workflow so that I know what bits to add.

The SCM tasks is quiet complex, so I am thinking you won’t be able to create new tasks using n8n.

Instead you can start stop and edit keywords of a task as the limit of the automation with n8n.

4

For initial, the tasks that are already have scm api endpoint or Google sheet integration (sending task result to Google sheet api).

The idea is to

  1. run scm task (via desktop/api)
  2. send raw json result to n8n or other platform webhook via task automation.
  3. Let user handle the raw data sent inside n8n platform.

n8n is great for AI agent workflow(scm tools as a toolkit for the agent) and app integrations.

5

I too vote for this … although it can be done with webhooks, I think creating an n8n node for SCM is a wise idea. I use n8n regularly .. it outclasses activepieces and make.com .. and its free to self-host.

Tim .. remember all the trouble we went through getting webhooks to work with Flux? n8n makes it simple .. especially if there is a node for it. Think of it like Zapier on steroids. Now it has some very sophisticated AI agent workflows that I think would work well with SCM.

Here is more information:

6

Can you give me an example workflow of what you want to do with SCM and n8n?

Having a user generated workflow will make it easier for me to provide exactly the integrations needed.

Right now I feel a little bit in the dark about how best to proceed with this.

Thanks

7

USE CASE 1
For example, with an N8N node for SCM, you can have n8n run a task to discover keywords, then all SCM’s node to write an article, or scrape something with SCM and then return the result back to N8N as part of a workflow. That would be very powerful.

Basically, you can take all of your typical API endpoints and put them into a N8N node for non-programmers

Right now, if I wanted to hook N8N into SCM, I would have to use N8N http request to create API webhook to endpoint on SCM .. then I would have to look for a new file that SCM saves, then parse the data from the CSV file. If you were to create a N8N node, then each item would be a native variable that is returned. For example, users could easily grab that new google maps website logo URL feature you recently added … and do something with it in a native N8N automation easily.

USE CASE #2
instead of just having N8N call SCM .. you can do the reverse .. and make it so that SCM invokes an N8N automation, and returns ANY DATA, like a flux image, or anything that is available, back to the SCM node so SCM can embed it your article creator.

Here are a couple tutorials how to create an N8N node:

N8N + SCM = NO LIMITS
By creating an N8N node for SCM, you will be opening up SCM to infinite use cases without extra work on your part (other than creating the node). In addition, you will be exposing SCM to a massive fast-growing nocode audience. One thing N8N lacks is good scraping tools … where SCM has many. Many N8N’ers could save API money by buying SCM.

TRY IT .. YOU’LL LIKE IT
If you haven’t used N8N, you should try it out. If you know JS and JSON, it will be a piece of cake for you to learn. In fact, you might use it more if you want to automate something fast that you dont’ want to write specific code for. And lastly, it has an ever-growing AI Agent ecosystem that could compliment SCM.

2 Likes
8

Ill have a poke around .

Thanks for the write up very detailed.

9

@Tim - did you create the n8n node? I would to use it AI Agent ecosystem… Thanks

10

Not yet.

Do you have an idea how you would like to use it with n8n?

I need description of workflow.

11

Tim, this is workflow for a AI Agent with n8n integration -
:counterclockwise_arrows_button: Workflow Summary:

  1. SCM Scrapes Vehicle Listings
  2. n8n Ingests and Filters Data
  3. AI Generates Customer-Friendly Descriptions
  4. n8n Sends SMS or Chatbot Message
  5. AI Responds to Questions and Books Test Drive
12

Thankyou for posting this.

SCM can scrape listings, but that task needs to be setup first before hand.

Then it can place results into Google sheets,

Then you can use n8n to use that Google sheets data to do the rest of the work flow.

Do you want to use n8n to start the SCM task and wait for it to complete?

13

I believe SCM should start the task first

1 Like
14

Some teaser screenshots

Credentials

image
image692×650 30.5 KB

image
image1563×1020 34.7 KB

Now I’m working on some nodes that will send some basic commands to the SCM API.

2 Likes
15

The SCM node has been added, and right now it will be able to retrieve a list of your tasks to perform ops on.

image
image541×821 39.5 KB

1 Like
16

All the SCM API routes have been renamed from /project/ to /task/ to make it align more with the n8n nodes.

The newly renamed routes are being added slowly to the node in n8n.

image
image1413×452 26.8 KB

API docs have been updated as well, however you will need the newest version of SCM to access these new routes.

Changes are backwards compatible, so those using older SCM API calls will still keep working.

1 Like
17

This is n8n community node?

Can’t wait to use scm as a tool and create SCM MCP server for my agent :ok_hand:

1 Like
18

Yes this will be released as an official community node when its ready!

1 Like
19

Great move, so n8n cloud users can use it as well, not just the self-hoster.

Thank you, appreciate the hard work.

1 Like
20

Yep thats the plan, hopefully it doesn’t take to long or to much work to have the SCM node approved.

1 Like