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Automate competitor monitoring and influencer research

Stop spending 2 hours a day manually checking competitor profiles. Weld extracts structured data from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter/X so you can build real dashboards.

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The problems you're facing

Sound familiar? You're not alone.

Manual competitor checks

Checking 5 competitors across 3 platforms daily means 15 manual checks — screenshotting posts, copying captions, noting engagement numbers. That's 1-2 hours every day.

No cross-platform view

Instagram Insights, TikTok Analytics, and YouTube Studio are all separate. There's no way to see 'how is Competitor X doing across all platforms this week' without manual compilation.

Slow influencer evaluation

Finding 50 potential creators for a campaign means visiting 50 profiles, checking follower counts, engagement rates, and content style. Each takes 5-10 minutes.

Can't prove ROI

Without structured historical data, you can't show your boss 'competitor engagement dropped 23% this quarter.' The data exists but it's locked in platforms.

How Weld solves this

One API, all platforms, pay per result

Automated daily monitoring

One n8n workflow scrapes competitor profiles and posts across Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, and YouTube daily. Results land in a structured sheet — zero manual work.

Structured data for dashboards

Follower counts, engagement metrics, captions, timestamps — all as structured JSON. Build real dashboards showing competitor performance trends over weeks and months.

Bulk influencer sourcing

Paste 200 creator Instagram URLs, get back follower counts, engagement rates, bio info, and recent post performance. A week of manual research in 10 minutes.

Example n8n workflows

Copy these patterns to get started in minutes

Daily competitor tracker

Runs every morning and appends competitor profile data to a tracking spreadsheet. Alerts you on Slack when something notable happens.

  1. 1

    Schedule trigger

    Every day at 7am

  2. 2

    Generate URLs

    Build competitor profile URLs for Instagram, TikTok, Twitter

  3. 3

    Parallel scrapes

    Run instagram-profiles, tiktok-profiles, and twitter-profiles simultaneously

  4. 4

    Append to sheet

    Write metrics to 'Daily Competitor Tracker' sheet

  5. 5

    Alert on spikes

    If any competitor's follower count jumped >5%, send a Slack alert

Influencer sourcing

Takes a list of creator URLs, enriches them with profile data, and generates a ranked shortlist by engagement rate.

  1. 1

    Manual trigger

    Campaign manager kicks off with a list of creator URLs

  2. 2

    Bulk scrape

    Run instagram-profiles on 200 creator URLs at once

  3. 3

    Calculate metrics

    Compute engagement rate from likes, comments, and followers

  4. 4

    Filter and rank

    Keep creators with 10K+ followers and >3% engagement

  5. 5

    Deliver shortlist

    Write ranked shortlist to Google Sheet, email to partnerships team

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Integrations

Connect your scraped data to your favorite tools

Google Sheets

Google Sheets

Auto-sync results to spreadsheets

Webhooks

Real-time delivery to any endpoint

REST API

Programmatic access for developers

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n8n

Connect to 1000+ apps

CSV/JSON

Download in standard formats

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Content Strategists