Automate Business Lead Scraping from Apify to Google Sheets with Data Cleaning

🚀 Automated Lead Scraper Workflow (Apify + n8n + Google Sheets)

🧠 What It Does

This n8n workflow automates the process of scraping leads using Apify , cleaning the extracted data, and exporting it to Google Sheets —ready for use in outreach, prospecting, or CRM pipelines.

🔄 Workflow Steps

1. ✅ Start – Manually activates the workflow.

2. 🧩 Set Variables – Stores required Apify credentials:

   • APIFY_TOKEN : Your Apify token.
   • APIFY_TASK_ID : The Apify task to run.

3. 🕸️ Run Apify Scraper – Launches the scraper and fetches the dataset.

4. 🧹 Clean Data – Processes scraped results to:

   • ✂️ Strip non-numeric characters from phone numbers.
   • ✉️ Format emails (lowercase + trimmed).

5. 📊 Export to Google Sheets – Appends clean data to your spreadsheet:

   • 🏢 company name → from title
   • 📞 phone → cleaned number
   • 📍 address → from scraped info

🛠️ Requirements

• 🕷️ Apify Account

  • A valid APIFY_TOKEN
  • An existing Apify task ( APIFY_TASK_ID )

• 📗 Google Sheets Access

  • OAuth2 credentials set up in n8n (eg, "Google Sheets account 2" )

🚦 How to Use

1. ⚙️ Open the Variables node and plug in your Apify credentials.
2. 📄 Confirm the Google Sheets node points to your desired spreadsheet.
3. ▶️ Run the workflow manually from the Start node.

📥 Output

A ready-to-use sheet of cleaned lead data containing:

• Company names
• Phone numbers
• Addresses

💼 Perfect For:

• Sales teams doing outbound prospecting
• Marketers building lead lists
• Agencies running data aggregation tasks