Verify Instagram Creator Engagement with Bright Data + n8n

Verify Instagram creator engagement—then shortlist only “worth contacting” leads using Bright Data + n8n

Paste Instagram handles, set your budget, and let this n8n workflow pull real creator profiles and recent posts with Bright Data. It calculates engagement using real follower counts, flags risk signals, and uses GPT-5.6 to turn bios/captions/comments into structured outreach verdicts—then saves results to a Google Sheets “Shortlist” tab.

What this workflow does

• Collects inputs: receives a form submission with Instagram handles, what you sell, and an optional per-post budget.
• Prepares Bright Data requests: cleans and deduplicates handles, enforces a per-run limit, and builds requests for each creator’s profile and recent posts.
• Creates Bright Data dataset snapshots: triggers two snapshots (profiles + posts) and polls until both complete (or a timeout cap is reached).
• Processes snapshot results: downloads results, separates profile rows from post rows, drops co-author posts, and ensures every requested handle still gets an output row even if no data returns.
• Calculates engagement + risk flags: computes engagement rate, comment-to-like ratio, engagement variation, sponsored-post share, posting recency, and cost per engagement against your budget—then compares to any prior history.
• Generates verdicts with AI: uses OpenAI (GPT-5.6) to extract structured judgments from bios, captions, and comment samples, combining them with numeric signals to produce a final decision and outreach angle.
• Outputs results: appends only creators marked “worth contacting” to the Google Sheets Shortlist tab; upserts every creator’s verdict to an n8n Data Table, and renders an HTML report back to the form.

Use cases

• Influencer marketing teams verifying real engagement before outreach.
• SaaS operators running repeatable creator vetting pipelines from Instagram handles.
• Automation engineers building a reliable Bright Data + n8n workflow with reporting and lead scoring.

Technical details (n8n stack)

• Nodes/steps: if, set, code, form, no op, wait.
• Integrations: Bright Data (profile + post dataset snapshots), OpenAI (GPT-5.6), Google Sheets (Shortlist tab), and n8n Data Table.