Audit AU Privacy Compliance: HTTP Homepage & Policy Scan

Instant AU Privacy Compliance Snapshot (Homepage + Policy)

Run this on-demand n8n workflow to audit a website’s African Union (AU) data protection compliance signals by fetching its homepage and privacy policy, detecting tracker and cookie-consent cues, scoring compliance, and generating a readable HTML audit report.

What this workflow does

• Manual on-demand scan: Start the workflow by clicking Test workflow (no scheduled execution required).
• Fetch the homepage via HTTP: Uses the website_url you provide (including https://) to retrieve the homepage HTML with an HTTP request.
• Detect common tracking & consent indicators: Scans homepage content to identify typical signals such as Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, and Hotjar, plus cookie-consent cues and a privacy policy link.
• Locate and validate the privacy policy: Generates candidate privacy policy URLs, fetches each candidate page, and uses text heuristics to select the first page that looks like a real privacy policy.
• Score compliance and list gaps: Calculates a compliance score based on the presence of a privacy policy, cookie consent, and whether trackers appear to load without consent.
• Assess policy quality (keyword-based): If a readable policy is found, it performs keyword-based checks against AU Convention-style areas: controller details, purposes, consent, rights, transfers, security/retention, and transparency.
• Render an HTML report: Produces a formatted HTML audit showing scores, gaps, and the policy assessment details.

Use cases

• Quickly evaluate a SaaS landing page’s AU privacy readiness before launching or scaling.
• Perform repeatable website compliance checks during marketing changes (cookie banners, tracking scripts, policy updates).
• Help automation engineers and privacy teams generate initial evidence for remediation planning.

Technical details

• Nodes/Tools: Manual Trigger, HTTP request, Code, HTML, Set, Sticky Note.
• Credentials: None required—workflow uses HTTP requests.
• Input: Provide website_url (including https://).