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I recently started using it, and as an experienced developer, I love it. It's really easy to automate tasks and schedule things. For example, I connected it t

by XCSme 1y ago

I recently started using it, and as an experienced developer, I love it. It's really easy to automate tasks and schedule things. For example, I connected it to my UXWizz MySQL database, asked the AI in UXWizz to give me a query with the funnel conversions for today (visits/pricing/checkout/sales) compared to last week, copied that into n8n and made it send me an emoji-formatted daily Telegram message. I am now using it to implement an AI chat-bot/support ticket responder, and I'm planning to migrate a Node.js auto-poster to it, so I can easily change the schedule/model/content of the post without having to edit any code. I like that it has good documentation for integrations. For example, I was testing Google Ads, and I want to do conversion tracking without adding the Google JS to my page. Again, I used an MySQL connection to my UXWizz analytics dashboard to select the gclid for all visits that lead to a conversion event, then with n8n I upload those daily to a Google Sheet, which is then used by Google Ads to properly track conversions. The Google Sheet integration is not trivial (you need Google Cloud account, create an app, create oauth login, etc.), but the n8n docs were clear enough to follow and up-to-date enough to work.

rkuodys 1y ago
Can I ask you why so many things with N8N is connected over Telegram it seems versus for example slack? Not a user of Telegram so I honestly am curious about this choice
- nik8n 1y ago
  I think many users choose Telegram, as it's really simple. Slack is usually slightly more work to setup, e.g. creating the slack bot for it. I'm using Slack ware more than telegram, but I guess both work.
- XCSme 1y ago
  Personally I hate Slack, it never works on my PC because of their organizations/workspace system, where you need a separate account for each community you are in. Also, it's really buggy and login often doesn't work, or switching accounts breaks things. Telegram has a really good mobile app, and their BotFather makes it easy to create custom integrations. They display nicely a lot of notification formats (text/html/markdown) and it's free. Slack is too bloated to simply use for notifications.
- sally_glance 1y ago
  I can only talk about the Slack integration story since I never worked with the Telegram API, but over the last couple of years it has become an incredible mess. There are various ways to do the same thing, different permission models, deprecated endpoints without clear alternatives... It has become a pain honestly.

by XCSme 1y ago

rkuodys 1y ago

Can I ask you why so many things with N8N is connected over Telegram it seems versus for example slack? Not a user of Telegram so I honestly am curious about this choice

nik8n 1y ago
I think many users choose Telegram, as it's really simple. Slack is usually slightly more work to setup, e.g. creating the slack bot for it. I'm using Slack ware more than telegram, but I guess both work.
XCSme 1y ago
Personally I hate Slack, it never works on my PC because of their organizations/workspace system, where you need a separate account for each community you are in. Also, it's really buggy and login often doesn't work, or switching accounts breaks things. Telegram has a really good mobile app, and their BotFather makes it easy to create custom integrations. They display nicely a lot of notification formats (text/html/markdown) and it's free. Slack is too bloated to simply use for notifications.
sally_glance 1y ago
I can only talk about the Slack integration story since I never worked with the Telegram API, but over the last couple of years it has become an incredible mess. There are various ways to do the same thing, different permission models, deprecated endpoints without clear alternatives... It has become a pain honestly.