Weekly Competitor Reports in n8n
Self-hosted competitive monitoring — automated, recurring, no manual work.
Competitive social monitoring is mostly repeated collection. n8n can read supported profiles and recent posts through KonbiniAPI on a schedule, format the results, and deliver them wherever your team works.
Before you start
- 1A KonbiniAPI accountThe free plan includes 100 credits, which is enough to run this a few times.
- 2n8n connectedOAuth2 or API key.
- 3A real targetA public account, post, or keyword to run it against — the placeholders below are not live values.
Wire it up.
Each step below is a node or action in n8n. The KonbiniAPI step is an MCP tool call, and it costs the same credits as the matching REST call.
Good for
- Weekly cross-platform recap for in-house marketing teams
- Automated social audit for digital marketing agencies
- Competitive benchmarking across multiple brands and platforms
- Scheduled client social media reports with a consistent collection cadence
Workflow steps
Trigger weekly, loop through competitor accounts using KonbiniAPI's MCP node, format the results, and deliver the report via your preferred channel.
- 1Schedule Trigger nodeRun every Monday (or your preferred day) using a cron schedule.
- 2MCP node — profile and posts toolsChoose the matching profile and posts tools for each competitor's platform. Use a Split In Batches node to loop through multiple accounts.
- 3Set nodeExtract the platform-appropriate profile metrics, recent posting activity, and fields you want in the report.
- 4Send reportFormat and deliver via Gmail, Slack, or write to Notion, Airtable, or Google Sheets.
Other n8n workflows
- Monitor creator growthSelf-hosted, scheduled profile tracking across all five supported platforms.
- Track follower changesDetect audience shifts on any account — automatically, on your schedule.
- Content digestA scheduled brief on what was published, not just that something was.
- CRM enrichmentTurn a URL on a record into headcount, industry, and what they have been posting.
Run this in n8n.
One API key works for MCP and the REST API. The free plan includes 100 credits and no credit card.