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Are you doing anything cool with n8n? (sh.itjust.works)
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Just curious what people are using n8n for.

I just finished setting up a workflow that sends me a Telegram message every night about photography opportunities for the next day. It puts together weather data, POIs (which I defined for my location), sun/moon position, milky way visibility, cloud cover, etc. The message then simply tells me if it's worth it going out in the morning.

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[-] ISOmorph@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

A governmental-ish site I'm required to use doesn't push notifications as mails, so you have to login daily to check for updates. Updates may happen multiple times daily or once a month. I automated my server to access the site once a day with my credentials, screenshot the notifications, parse them with ocr, and send myself a mail.

[-] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What do you use for OCR parsing?

[-] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 0 points 1 week ago

I'm not willing to run something that risky on my own infrastructure, therefore I wont run it. I can do all of those things with a handful of scripts or Home Assistant anyway.

[-] EarMaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

May I ask why you consider n8n risky?

[-] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not a slop jockey and I'm watching people plug these kinds of things into public data and having it do operations with financial/business impacts.

I'd rather employ a gremlin to write scripts.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m not a slop jockey

Are you aware that you are not required to run AI with n8n? There are two flavors: With AI and without.

[-] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo -1 points 1 week ago

lowcode environments are the O.G slop.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Wow! Well, you can keep your attitude.

[-] statelesz@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just look at the recent vulnerabilities it had. It just had a CVE 10 in January and March of this year.

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?vendor=n8n

[-] EarMaster@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Almost all of them affect authenticated users. The only ones that allow unauthenticated users access are for old versions. So to be honest: I am not that much concerned.

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You aren't concerned about a severity 10 vuln? Those are found in software with exceptionally bad qa and abandonware. That should give you pause about how hard n8n is "going fast and breaking things".

[-] statelesz@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 week ago

Well, this "authenticated user" could be your fucking LLM and this is really concerning. Besides that a single CVE 10 is also very concerning no matter how old the affected version is.

[-] dalekirkwood@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Tons of things 😊

  • Built quite a few personal agents, long before OpenClaw or whatever that is
  • Automated Social Media Images
  • Set up a bot on Manifold Markets
  • Created entire processes in our company using it for Sales, Marketing and Customer Support
  • Automatically update the CRM using Macrodroid and n8n
  • tons of other playing around.

One of the most amazing pieces of software I've ever used.

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