Hello, could you help me understand how to properly search different websites, for example, for job searching but also for e-commerce, i.e., sourcing and scraping?
@Chris Kendig Hello and thank you for your replies. Could you recommend some websites that list other people's work that might give me some ideas, so I can understande what is possible to do, and through these examples also the skills and MCP
Hello, I'm having trouble understanding how to properly create AI agents in 8n and AI Studio. I've generated a JSON file for my workflow, but there are still some things I don't understand, and I'd like to discuss this further with a real person rather than an artificial one. Thank you.
## **E-Commerce Automation Workflow & Strategy** ### **1. Current Sourcing Process** I'd like to do e-commerce and utilize specific extensions to find products. My sourcing workflow currently relies on an image recognition extension called **AliPrice**. When browsing a marketplace like Amazon, this tool allows me to locate the same product across various other marketplaces, specifically AliExpress. **The Bottleneck:** The main issue is that once I click through AliPrice to view the product on AliExpress, I must wait for the page to load and then manually apply filters. I have to filter for the lowest price and specific shipping countries. I am forced to do this manually because the extension does not support pre-set filters for destination countries or automated sorting by ascending price to find the cheapest option. ### **2. Current Scraping & Importing Process** For the second stage, I use an extension called **DSers** to scrape product data and push it to WooCommerce or other marketplace seller accounts. **The Limitations:** * **Platform Restriction:** It only allows scraping from AliExpress, not from any website. * **Target Restriction:** It cannot send data to every marketplace. * **Bulk Actions:** I cannot paste multiple URLs into the application for mass importing. * **Manual Effort:** Despite these two extensions providing some automation, the process still requires a high volume of manual clicks. ### **3. Automation Objectives & Proposed Tools** My goal is to implement an **AI Agent** to eliminate these repetitive clicks. I am considering two Chrome-based options for the sourcing and scraping phases: **crawl4AI** or **Apify**. **The Strategy:** As a dropshipper, my strategy begins with identifying a product located in a local market (specifically Europe). I then need to find the cheapest version of that product within that specific region using filters. Once the optimal source is identified, I proceed with scraping. I am looking for an application that makes this entire sequence as autonomous as possible.
@Chris Kendig Have I understood correctly that previously, creating a Gmail agent required as many Gmail tools (nodes) as desired actions? For example, if I wanted my Gmail agent to perform five different actions, I needed five Gmail tools, each with its own prompts and configuration, whereas now I only need one Gmail MCP? And for web search, there are several tools for searching on Google or a website; is this now simplified with a single web search MCP?