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Find daily Amazon India bestsellers with Apify and Google Sheets (4%+ commission)

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1. Workflow Overview

Who's it for Indian Amazon affiliate marketers, content creators, and dropshipping researchers who waste hours every morning hunting for trending products — only to pick items that pay 1% commissio...

Best for

  • Market Research automation workflows
  • intermediate n8n builders looking for reusable templates

Tools used

n8n-nodes-base.stickynote, n8n-nodes-base.scheduletrigger, n8n-nodes-base.code, n8n-nodes-base.httprequest, @apify/n8n-nodes-apify.apify, n8n-nodes-base.googlesheets

Source and attribution

This workflow is cataloged by N8N Workflows and links back to its original n8n.io source page by Rahul Shah.

Original n8n.io source

1.1 Workflow description

Title
Find daily Amazon India bestsellers with Apify and Google Sheets (4%+ commission)
Workflow name
Find daily Amazon India bestsellers with Apify and Google Sheets (4%+ commission)

Who's it for

Indian Amazon affiliate marketers, content creators, and dropshipping researchers who waste hours every morning hunting for trending products — only to pick items that pay 1% commission on electronics. This workflow does that hunt for you and only surfaces products that pay 4% or more.

How it works

Every morning at 08:02 IST, the workflow:

  1. Detects the current Indian retail season — Summer (Mar–May), Monsoon (Jun–Aug), Festive/Diwali (Sep–Nov), or Winter (Dec–Feb) — and randomly picks one matching Amazon Bestsellers category for the day.
  2. Scrapes the top 50 products from that category page via the Apify Amazon Bestsellers actor, with a hard $0.05/run cost cap so your daily spend stays predictable.
  3. Scores every product against a 4-layer formula: category commission rate (drops anything under 4%), review count, average rating, and seasonal keyword match in the title.
  4. Saves the Top 10 winners to a Google Sheet with status = Pending, ready for any downstream content or posting workflow to pick up.

The output sheet is pre-structured with status columns for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Threads, and YouTube — so it slots cleanly into a multi-platform affiliate content engine.

How to set up

Total setup time: ~10 minutes.

  • Install the Apify community node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify) from Settings → Community Nodes.
  • Add your Apify API credential and select it inside the Apify nodes.
  • Create a Google Sheet with the column headers listed in the Setup sticky note on the canvas, then paste your Sheet ID into the final node.
  • Connect a Google Sheets OAuth2 credential.
  • Activate the workflow.

Full step-by-step instructions are in the colored sticky notes on the canvas.

Requirements

  • Apify account (free tier is enough).
  • Google account with Sheets access.
  • Apify community node installed in your n8n instance.

How to customize

  • Edit the seasonal category map in the Seasonal Category Selector Code node to target other countries (just swap amazon.in URLs for amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, etc.) or to focus on a single niche.
  • Tweak the commission percentage map and minimum-commission floor in the Score & Select Top 10 Code node to match your region's affiliate rates.
  • Change the Schedule Trigger to run multiple times a day, or only on weekdays, depending on your content cadence.

1.2 Logical Blocks

This catalog entry is organized from the workflow JSON. The node-level section below shows the executable blocks available for review before importing the template.

2. Block-by-Block Analysis

Block 1 - Sticky Note

Type / Role
n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote - stickyNote
Config choices
Version 1

Block 2 - Sticky Note1

Type / Role
n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote - stickyNote
Config choices
Version 1

Block 3 - Sticky Note2

Type / Role
n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote - stickyNote
Config choices
Version 1

Block 4 - Sticky Note3

Type / Role
n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote - stickyNote
Config choices
Version 1

Block 5 - Every Day at 8:02 AM

Type / Role
n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger - scheduleTrigger
Config choices
Version 1.3

Block 6 - Select Seasonal Category

Type / Role
n8n-nodes-base.code - code
Config choices
Version 2

Block 7 - Post to Apify Actor API

Type / Role
n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest - httpRequest
Config choices
Version 4.3

Block 8 - Retrieve Apify Dataset

Type / Role
@apify/n8n-nodes-apify.apify - apify
Config choices
Version 1

Block 9 - Calculate and Select Top Products

Type / Role
n8n-nodes-base.code - code
Config choices
Version 2

Block 10 - Append Products to Sheets

Type / Role
n8n-nodes-base.googleSheets - googleSheets
Config choices
Version 4.7

3. Summary Table

Workflow Find daily Amazon India bestsellers with Apify and Google Sheets (4%+ commission)
Complexity intermediate
Nodes 10
Categories Market Research
Author Rahul Shah
Published 12 May 2026

4. Reproducing the Workflow from Scratch

  1. 1. Download the workflow JSON

    Use the JSON export at /data/workflows/15656/15656.json as the source template for this automation.

  2. 2. Import the template into n8n

    Open n8n, import the downloaded JSON, and review each node before activating the workflow.

  3. 3. Configure credentials and variables

    Replace placeholder credentials, API keys, webhook URLs, account IDs, and environment-specific values with your own settings.

  4. 4. Test with sample data

    Run the workflow manually or in a staging workspace, inspect node output, and confirm downstream systems receive the expected data.

  5. 5. Activate and monitor

    Enable the workflow only after testing, then monitor executions, errors, and rate limits during the first production runs.

5. General Notes & Resources

Review imported nodes carefully before activation. This catalog entry is intended to help you inspect the workflow structure, understand required services, and find related templates faster.

Node names, credentials, schedules, webhook paths, and external service limits may need adjustment for your workspace.

Frequently asked questions

What does Find daily Amazon India bestsellers with Apify and Google Sheets (4%+ commission) do?

Who's it for Indian Amazon affiliate marketers, content creators, and dropshipping researchers who waste hours every morning hunting for trending products — only to pick items that pay 1% commissio...

What do I need before importing this workflow?

Review the workflow JSON, configure any required credentials in n8n, and test the automation in a safe workspace before using it in production.

Can I customize this workflow?

Yes. Use the block-by-block analysis and the downloadable JSON to inspect each node, then adjust credentials, prompts, schedules, filters, or destinations for your Market Research use case.