How to Scrape + Auto DM EVERY Social Media Platform In 2025

Summary

In his latest video, Nick Saraev dives deep into the world of scraping and automating direct messages on all major social media platforms by 2025. Covering platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, TikTok, and YouTube, he provides a comprehensive guide on how to collect leads and automate outreach to effectively sell products and services. Utilizing a flowchart and various tools like Drippy.ai, Appify, and AutoIGDM, Nick demonstrates how users can take advantage of these platforms efficiently and creatively while staying within policy guidelines. He also emphasizes the benefits of using email as an alternative communication method due to its lesser restrictions on mass messaging.

Highlights

• Nick covers tools like Drippy.ai for Twitter scraping and outreach automation 📈.
• Detailed instructions on using Appify and Make.com for Instagram data scraping and automation 🔍.
• Exploring the versatility of LinkedIn outreach using Expand and other automation tools 💼.
• Unveiling techniques to scrape and gain contacts from TikTok using Appify for effective outreach strategies 🎯.
• Learn about YouTube email scraping to contact creators directly for collaborations 🎥.

Key Takeaways

• Learn how to scrape data and automate DMs on major social media platforms with ease by 2025 🚀.
• Nick introduces tools like Drippy.ai and AutoIGDM to help streamline your outreach campaigns across multiple platforms 📱.
• Understand the importance of supplementing social media outreach with email campaigns for wider reach and fewer restrictions 📧.
• Automate your marketing efforts using advanced tools and stay ahead in the game of social media marketing by staying updated with the latest techniques 🛠️.
• Nick emphasizes creativity and playing within platform rules to maximize effectiveness and avoid bans 🚫.

Overview

Nick Saraev takes viewers on a comprehensive journey into future social media automation techniques, promising mastery over scraping and automating outreach by 2025. He covers a wide range of platforms, providing insightful tips and tricks for marketers looking to gather leads and expand their reach.

Throughout the video, Nick introduces various tools and methodologies including Drippy.ai, Appify, AutoIGDM, and more. He emphasizes the practicality and power of these tools in leading successful marketing campaigns while ensuring they're compliant with platform guidelines.

The highlight of the tutorial lies in Nick's stress on combining social media and email marketing strategies to enhance communication and engagement with potential audiences. Nick's energetic and informative approach equips viewers with essential skills to navigate the intricate landscape of social media marketing effortlessly.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Social Media Scraping This chapter provides a comprehensive guide to scraping data from major social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, TikTok, and YouTube. It also covers automation of outreach on these platforms, enabling the reader to not only gather leads but also organize and engage them in sales sequences. The chapter includes a detailed flowchart to help set up and run these operations across platforms.
• 00:30 - 10:30: Getting Started with Twitter Scraping The chapter introduces the process of getting started with Twitter scraping. The speaker offers to guide users through the process by signing up and demonstrating on the platforms themselves. This includes a hands-on approach where the speaker even pays for the platforms to show how they work in practice, particularly for client work. The focus is on Twitter, highlighting it as the simplest and most accessible platform for scraping and conducting outreach.
• 10:30 - 29:30: Instagram Scraping Techniques This chapter introduces Instagram scraping techniques, focusing on the use of Drippy.ai, a platform that simplifies lead generation and outreach automation by using AI to scrape profiles. The narrator disclaims any affiliation with Drippy or most platforms discussed. Drippy is a tool that interfaces with Twitter/X DMs, even if it risks contradicting Twitter's terms of service.
• 29:30 - 42:00: LinkedIn Scraping Strategies The chapter 'LinkedIn Scraping Strategies' starts with the narrator describing their role as more of an assistant. They proceed to set up their account by providing an email address and verifying it through a link sent to their email. Once verified, they refresh the page and successfully access a platform named Drippy. After gaining access, they begin the onboarding process by providing basic information and subsequently proceed to connect their Twitter account.
• 42:00 - 61:00: Facebook Scraping Approaches In this chapter, the author walks the reader through the process of manually connecting to their Twitter account as a method of Facebook scraping. The user is required to sign into Twitter and save their password, after which an additional verification code is emailed to them for security purposes. The narrative emphasizes the measures taken by the platform to prevent fraudulent activities, ensuring that only authentic users can proceed with the connection. Once these steps are completed, the connection to Twitter is successfully established.
• 61:00 - 90:00: YouTube and TikTok Scraping Methods The chapter titled 'YouTube and TikTok Scraping Methods' begins with a brief mention of an optional onboarding session, which is skipped in the discussion. The focus then shifts to the user interface for adding a new lead source in a system. It is highlighted that the process is relatively straightforward and self-explanatory. The chapter explains the method to add a new lead source by selecting 'new lead source' which presents various options. These options include scraping leads from tweets or Twitter profiles and importing leads from a CSV file. The process of importing from a CSV file is noted for further discussion.
• 90:00 - 100:30: Conclusion and Offers In the 'Conclusion and Offers' chapter, the speaker discusses different methods of finding leads similar to existing customers or Ideal Customer Profiles (ICP). They mention a tool for lookalike leads and demonstrate how to use a lead scraper. The lead scraper allows users to input an account name to scrape followers from it, offering many options for customization. The speaker opts to demonstrate using their own account to simplify the process.

How to Scrape + Auto DM EVERY Social Media Platform In 2025 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hey today I'm going to show you an exhaustive list of ways to scrape every major social media platform currently known to men that includes Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Twitter/X Tik Tok and we're even going to do YouTube i'm also going to show you how to automate outreach on those platforms so you're not just going to be able to get a list of leads you're going to be able to put those leads into a sequence and actually sell them stuff which is what I think most people really care about i have a giant flowchart here that shows you how to get up and running on every platform
• 00:30 - 01:00 so if you guys want that just head over to the uh link in the description to find it let us start with the very first which is going to be uh Twitter and I'm actually going to go as far as literally signing up to the platforms for you guys so I'm going to whip out my my super cool uh AX and we're literally going to be paying uh money and signing up to these platforms all good in the hood i want to show you guys how this stuff actually works if you were to go out and do it for a client today so starting with the first which is Twitter the number one simplest and easiest way to scrape and then do outreach to Twitter
• 01:00 - 01:30 profiles right now is the drippy.ai uh I'm not affiliated with Drippy at all in fact I'm not affiliated with the vast majority of the platforms I'm going to be talking about today but it is a very straightforward way of essentially just plugging in a couple of parameters and then getting a list of leads that you automate the outreach to so Drippy is right over here you just type drippy.ai it's an AI assistant for your Twitter or XDMs they pitch it this way because this is obviously not cool or funky dory with the Twitter terms of service so they have to kind of pitch
• 01:30 - 02:00 themselves as an assistant more than anything else let me put in my email address next up they're going to send me a verification email so I'm just going to open up my email cool then going to verify verification looks good i should now be able to just refresh this okay awesome now we are in Drippy so we're going to do some onboarding here i'm just going to add some basic answers I should say i'm now going to add or connect my Twitter account so in order to do that
• 02:00 - 02:30 here you obviously need to actually manually connect your Twitter so I'm going to do that you then have to sign into Twitter and then I'm just going to save my password they're going to then email me an additional verification code because obviously they don't want you to um be doing any sort of scamming paste that in should now be connected we have an
• 02:30 - 03:00 onboarding session that is optional i'm just going to skip that and then okay great now they're going to walk you through the process of adding a lead list and so on and so forth uh I'm just going to do that myself sort of next so it's not very difficult to do a lot of the stuff is self-explanatory so to add a new lead source I'm just going to click new lead source and you have a couple of options here they're going to allow you to scrape leads from a tweet or a Twitter profile you can also just import leads from a CSV file which I'll talk about in a second and then you can
• 03:00 - 03:30 do lookalike leads finding leads similar to your existing customers or ICP so in my case um yeah I'm just going to click this to start but I I'm also going to run through the other options here lead scraper basically means when you click this button little modal is going to pop up that's going to allow us to let's say we want to do uh I don't know an account source all you do is you literally just put in the account that you want to scrape the followers of essentially so um I don't know i mean there's a lot of options I have over here uh why don't I just do I don't even know if we could do myself but I'm just going to try doing myself that way I don't have to muck around with anybody else's so I'm just
• 03:30 - 04:00 going to add this as my source cool looks like it pulled my data successfully and what do I want to do do I want to do followers or following maybe I just want to you know contact the followers of some automation dude okay now what's going to happen is it's going to start importing that list of followers now um this is a preview uh of 400 and I believe they do 400 or maybe 10% or something like that so we're just going to let that preview run after that preview is finished uh we'll click next and here we have a couple of options we
• 04:00 - 04:30 can um continuously like we can add more so we could filter leads by the number of followers that they have so we could grab my leads and then we could say hm I only want to you know reach out to leads if they have more than 100 followers we could also filter by the number of following we could exclude leads based off of whether their bio says something or whether their bio um like doesn't have something we could have a number of tweets filter and then we could also just reuse other saved ones that we have so in my case I'm just going to filter leads and I just want them to have more
• 04:30 - 05:00 than 100 followers because if they have less than 100 followers I don't know odds are they're just new profiles or maybe they don't really have any valuable things to say or whatnot i want people that are a little bit more socially engaged so I'm just going to click apply okay then I'll go down to next and then um we now are essentially just previewing our changes so I have one data source i have one filter applied brought my 4,000 down to 1,400 then they're also going to give us a lead credits amount and in this case I'm just going to say Nick Rives followers greater than 100
• 05:00 - 05:30 followers then going to save and now voila we have our drippy.ai lead source um it's already done all the lead scraping for us uh now it's currently importing which is pretty nice obviously if you want to actually do this you are going to have to you know upgrade your account so then you just head over to their um app.drippy.ai/ settings/plans and here you'll have access to a bunch of them there's like a starter plan an unlimited plan then custom plans so um I'm just going to click start free trial on the starter plan cuz that's just all I need for the purposes of this demo nothing
• 05:30 - 06:00 super fancy and then I'm going to go ahead and then start my trial okay so while all that stuff is importing I'm going to head over to automations and then what I want is I want um to set up my cold DM automation essentially so what I'm going to do is I'll use cold DM 2.0 this allows us to send outreach messages to users you've imported as a lead source so I'm going to click next then the source I'm going to use is going to be Nyx followers then we have the option here to either layer AI personalizations into an existing script or provide the AI with instructions to
• 06:00 - 06:30 write an entirely personalized message so you kind of have u um you know two options here in my case I'll just use script personalizer and to be clear I actually recommend you guys just like use a AI to personalize an element of an already pre-existing script because uh somebody that's read you know sent several hundreds of thousands of emails at this point that's typically how you get the highest ROI you don't have AI take care of everything for you because AI can just kind of be flamboyant and annoying and the tone of voice tends to suck you actually just like have a a a snippet of text that works and you know it works you just have AI customize a
• 06:30 - 07:00 couple of parts about it so here is where you have the option of setting this up and then they actually allow you to test it which I think is really cool so there's standard and then there's advanced i'm just going to use standard and essentially um what you do here is you provide a little bit of context so who are you who is your business um what's your offer so uh I'm just going to put my my context here i'm going to say you know my name is Nick i run a YouTube channel with not my anime list.net search with 60,000
• 07:00 - 07:30 subscribers subscribers where I teach AI automation cold email um cold outreach and growing your online business i do this by drilling deep into process optimization and doing live builds showing people how to put complex automations
• 07:30 - 08:00 together in a simple fashion i don't know just pulling stuff out of my ass here hopefully you guys can tell uh then you have your own script so here is where you would actually write your script and then you'd put in like your your personalization variables and stuff so I would probably go "Hey first name love." And then here I'd go some specific aspect about their profile refreshing to see some refreshing aspect of their profile
• 08:00 - 08:30 that's different from other people's thought I'd reach out for context I run a YouTube channel at around 60k subs and I'm looking for I don't know let's hypothetically say I'm looking for I don't know like clippers for my my YouTube content which is actually something that I am currently doing right now so I run a YouTube channel around 60 i'm looking for clippers your profile came up as a good fit short
• 08:30 - 09:00 form given your experience with short form would there be any interest in giving this a try i have a challenge set up here i'm just going to go to my challenge uh and the way that this works for people that are unfamiliar is basically I just have a bunch of content and I'm offering people the ability to clip and post my content on their own websites for on their own um social media platforms for a dollar per thousand views so I'm going to paste
• 09:00 - 09:30 this in let me know thanks neck cool check the settings creativity nope that's all good we can include website context include tweet context and then uh yeah we're basically good to go i'm just going to generate a message to this perpetual comics person here who love the fact you're a comic collector especially someone with a part-time role at Oracle thought I'd reach out for context i run a YouTube channel at 60k subs i'm looking for clippers your profile came up so this is like the the standardized one right let me know thanks Nick cool and I used 002
• 09:30 - 10:00 credits for that very nice very nice here we have the ability to generate some message variants so we can actually have AI do it so I'm just going to click generate variants it's now going to generate a couple of different messages the reason for this uh why you might want to do this on Twitter anyway is just because um you don't want to send the exact same message over and over and over again you want to like vary the messages that are being sent out so that Twitter doesn't think that you're just like spamming a bunch of people via DMs which as I mentioned previously is not exactly part of their terms of service ai is going through the whole rigomearroll maybe while it's doing so
• 10:00 - 10:30 I'll just make a little change i'm looking for video let's do video editors instead and I'm just realizing like if I'm going to run this I should probably change the primary audience so that it's video editors and not necessarily people that follow my channel right but I'm sure you guys can kind of see how you'd piece stuff like that together maybe you follow the followers of some video editing channel that uh teaches people
• 10:30 - 11:00 how to edit videos well odds are people that follow that person are going to know how to edit your videos so you just perform customized DMI reach for them cool looking for great editors and are a fan of styles like um let's just do screenblade
• 11:00 - 11:30 cool let me know if so no pressure cool that looks pretty good to me then we have some follow-ups that we can add so I'm not going to add any follow-ups um well maybe I will i'll just say just checking in on this let me know and then after that we could also schedule how many messages we want to send so maybe I want to send 10 messages per hour or something like that i don't know not Not really um you generally want to keep your limits pretty low here i think on average you want to send like 50ish DMs a day so about 1,500 a month max you can also set a delivery schedule like you know Monday to Friday between
• 11:30 - 12:00 9:00 a.m and like 6:00 p.m pt for instance i'm just going to leave that delivery schedule off and just send it all the time and then if I've already previously contacted somebody I'm just going to leave that off i can autofollow people if I want to auto like them auto retweet uh you know there's there's a lot of options here um but I'm for now I'm just going to leave all of this as next finally then we enter the automation name so I'll just say primary DM automation and then the sending account is going to be Nikki i'm just going to create once I've created this thing obviously we are good to go um it is going to pull uh leads directly from
• 12:00 - 12:30 my leads section here and then start sending uh outreach to all of the people that I've listed here right import is now complete we're basically good to go um so that's basically all you need to do um once you're done that it is now live the automation is sending you are good to go um you can obviously turn off the new cool DMs or follow-ups if you want you also have the ability to um pause the whole outreach campaign here uh if you so wish but um yeah that's literally all you need to do in order to get this up and running now let's cover a couple of those other lead generation methods so you see how earlier um when I
• 12:30 - 13:00 was creating my little lead source I could do lead scraper CSV import or lookalike leads well CSV import is a pretty cool mechanism that you could use in order to find leads that I don't think a lot of people know how to how to use but you can actually drill much deeper down than their um their defaults the way you do so is you do something like Apify which is a scraper that enables you to scrape large volumes of profiles without necessarily having to use Drippy's interface i can see this probably being more beneficial from a credit perspective as well but basically it's a big marketplace where you could scrape any platform and I'm going to cover how to use it in a few of my
• 13:00 - 13:30 future ones you could do Tik Tok you can do Instagram um in our case we're going to do Twitter and so what you can do is you theoretically could actually scrape let's say based off keywords based off tweets and stuff so you could extract all of the information that you could ever want based off of I don't know you could put like Elon Musk's Twitter profile or something and then you could get a big list of all of the tweets that he's ever made then based off all the tweets that he's ever made you can get a bunch of people that have commented on his Twitter posts then from that scrape all the people that have commented on
• 13:30 - 14:00 his Twitter posts and then use that as your list um which would essentially be a customized one um that Drippy doesn't allow you to do so organ uh organically right so a lot of cool options there um but I think I'm going to leave it at that there's there's a lot that you can do with this and there's a lot that you could obviously customize um the last mechanism is you could also do a lookalike leads so what you do is you paste a link to the account that you want so I might do my own then it'll actually go and then it'll find lookalike leads based off of people that follow that account so it's
• 14:00 - 14:30 not going to get the exact people that follow your account but what it's going to do is it's going to find patterns in their followings their their followers the keywords on their profiles and stuff like that then they're going to give you different people so this is useful obviously if you're scraping large volumes of people from from one um account and you don't just want to do it from that one account anymore or you're getting good results from that account but you want to get people that are similar and and you don't really have any more followers to scrape you can just create a lookalike lead list um instead of like actually doing that primary lead list all right so that's
• 14:30 - 15:00 Twitter/X let's now get into Instagram the way that we are going to do Instagram is we sort of have like a truncated fork in the road we can choose one of two paths and I'm going to show you guys both paths but you could use Appify and Make.com appify is the tool obviously that I showed you a moment ago and I'll run you through what that looks like u Make.com is sort of like a visual automation tool that lets you um drag and drop various steps which is you know very powerful tool that you shouldn't just consider in the context of lead scraping you can do a lot with it um and then auto IGDM is sort of like like an
• 15:00 - 15:30 all-in-one package similar to drippy.ai but I'll show you what both of these look like let's start with appy and make.com basically what you can do on Instagram is you can actually like extract email addresses from profiles pretty easily and you know if you feed in a,000 profiles you realistically be able to get like 200 300 email addresses from that which which are pretty good numbers and then you can actually like reach out to those people directly over email so you could you know use Instagram as your scraping source and then you could reach out to people over email um or what you could do is you could use Instagram as a scraping source and then reach out to people over Instagram using direct DMs now this is
• 15:30 - 16:00 kind of a nuanced point that I don't think a lot of people understand but you know social media platforms they are controlled by a third party entity and because they're controlled by a third party entity they obviously have very harsh rate limits in place these third party entities don't really like when we game the systems like we're doing right now so this is kind of like growth hacky right the thing is email is not really like that with email for the most part assuming that you build up um the infrastructure you can send out as many emails as you want in a day so in the case of Instagram Twitter LinkedIn and all the other platforms I'm going to
• 16:00 - 16:30 talk about you know like with Twitter maybe you send 50 cold DMs a day or something like that right but if you hypothetically spun up an email campaign that sourced emails using Twitter data you could theoretically send a thousand emails a day there's really nothing stopping you instagram is really similar so in our case I mean we're going to be able to send realistically maybe 30 to 50 a day using a tool like Auto IGDM but if you wanted to augment that um what you could do is you could just get the emails like I'm about to show you here then use that to add to a cold email campaign and then kind of like communicate with them off platform if that makes sense okay so how exactly do
• 16:30 - 17:00 you do this well as you see I have a million in one tabs open here on Appify what I did is I just typed on Instagram and I have a variety of scrapers that I could use generally speaking I like um scrapers that are payer result those just are a lot easier for me and they're a little bit more cost effective pay per result just means if I get a thousand leads they'll charge me for a thousand leads if I get 10,000 leads they'll charge you for 10,000 leads the alternative on Ampify is you could like pay per usage or you could pay pay per server usage or you could pay per um uh per hour or or rental or something like that i find it's just not really that scalable for our purposes so I always just go pay per result so the one I'm
• 17:00 - 17:30 going to be looking for is Instagram search we're going to be using this one right over here and this one costs $2.30 per thousand results obviously pretty reasonable and reliable and uh the way that this works is you basically just pump in a query and then it returns a bunch of profiles for you so users so I'm going to go query um AI automation and for the purpose of this demo I'm just going to do like I don't know 50 let's say let's just make sure this is 50 users then I'm just going to click save and start um on Appify and now
• 17:30 - 18:00 what's happening is on the back end this is actually spinning up a server on Ampify's um hardware and then it's using that server to like run their little private scraping thing the cool thing about Appify is it has a bunch of built-in proxies that just means that has a bunch of like scraping protections that minimize the probability that um that maximizes our ability to get these things and they just take care of all of it for us we don't really have to do any work ourselves okay great so as you can see I got a ton of profiles and the really cool thing is on in addition to
• 18:00 - 18:30 those profiles I also got a bunch of websites how cool is that huh pretty sweet all right and it looks like I don't know we scraped all 50 so once you're done with that scraping you can just click export results and what are you going to get as a result a CSV file csv stands for commaepparated value so this is just a quick and easy way for us to get a giant list of things in a format that is our own we're not using a third party tool for this anymore when we import a oops sorry I downloaded that by instance uh what we want to do is we actually want to import that CSV that we just exported um and the value here is
• 18:30 - 19:00 this is our own tool this is ours right this is our Google sheet it's our data we can do anything we want with this stuff it's just voila it's just all here so I'm clicking import once the data is inside you can see that it's I don't really like the format the um the sizes of these cells are really big but if I drag this and make this a little bit smaller what we'll see is we actually have access to the biography the business address the business address city name we have all of these fields basically with data in them which is awesome and the value in having all
• 19:00 - 19:30 these fields with data is obviously we can then use this to get um email addresses from these accounts okay so we're not going to be able to get all of the email addresses from these um of the 50 i don't know my inclination is we're probably like 15 or 20 emails usually it's about like a 30% enrichment rate but um yeah we we have now officially gotten a bunch of uh a bunch of profile data and we've we've put it in our own service so what do we do from here um pretty simple and straightforward you need to use what's called an email uh
• 19:30 - 20:00 verific or sorry an email finding tool they have a bunch of email finding tools available to you um I personally really like one called any mail finder now obviously all these cost money so there are variety of services out there that you can cross compare the costs with i find any mailinder is a great mix of both cost and then reliability and I'm usually able to get like a fair number of the emails that I I I look for um but yeah so now that we have all of these um all I need to do is just head over to my anymailfinder.com account i'll go to my app and the way that an email finder works basically is and I always
• 20:00 - 20:30 recommend using the UI before you try and like upload a bulk file is you can search for um a company you could search for a person at a company you could search for decision makers at a company you could also do LinkedIn URL search i'm actually just going to do a company search the way that it works is you basically feed in the domain name that you're looking for and then it'll go and it'll see if there are any accessible email addresses just by doing a bunch of math on the back end like it's basically scraping this website uh for any email things formatted as an email it's scraping all mentions of this website on the internet it's doing a bunch of like
• 20:30 - 21:00 what's called nominative email verification where they combine your name and stuff like that and uh yeah you know if I type in my own website left click.ai you can see it literally found my email address right there right pretty neat so what do you think is going to happen when we feed in a bunch of these Instagram profiles well we're going to be able to find a bunch of their emails so I'm going to head over to bulk search and then click new bulk then I'm going to go to company and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to upload the CSV file that I just downloaded so data set Instagram search scraper that's it right over here it's now processing the file um it looks like in our case we are
• 21:00 - 21:30 exceeding the maximum allowed length so what we need to do is we just need to grab some of these and then shorten the hell out of them that's uh fair we do have some of these that are just like unnecessarily and unreasonably long so really if I'm honest the only column that we actually need here cuz we have a lot of data here right the only column that we actually need in this entire thing is just the um domain name one so I'm actually just going to go in i'll grab the URL i'm going to go all the way back here just click on
• 21:30 - 22:00 this all the way back [Music] here very beginning where it says external URL here i'm just going to delete literally everything else cuz yeah there's like 2,000 columns in there that's a pretty big ass file right then I'm just going to remove a bunch of the other information that I personally don't really think is super relevant and then voila now we have external URL here we have URL we have the username and then we have a quick little biography um I think the biography might be a little
• 22:00 - 22:30 bit long i'm just going to remove that too obviously play around with this and various different types of Appify scrapers that you guys use are going to have different uh they're going to have different means of delivering this data to you the one that I used was just like crazy long so anyway um now I'm just going to export this updated Apify search then I'm going to go back to my bulk scraper and I'm going to upload it again okay we are currently doing some scraping
• 22:30 - 23:00 here looks like we found 14 fully verified emails seven of them were partially verified so actually that's like 20 wow 27 not bad we also have some that we just didn't find right which is understandable but um still pretty good second that it's done I can then preview this if I preview this it'll actually show me the email addresses um keep in mind that some of these are I'm want fully verified and partially verified as a CSV i'm going to continue this download that's okay uh and then I'm just going to go back here and I'm just going to make a new Google sheet and then just visualize all these email
• 23:00 - 23:30 addresses so I'm going to go import i'll go upload and we're just going to paste these puppies in okay okay and now as we can see we actually have a ton of email addresses wow very nice very nice super cool now as you see some of these um some of these links aren't actually links to like the person's own website right like school.com is not that person's website school.com is like a aggregator that they just happen to have a thing hosted on same thing with I don't know like Linkree and Cal.com so these these these
• 23:30 - 24:00 emails obviously like they don't really matter to us right but they're still emails which is pretty cool and now all of a sudden you have a big list of emails you could pump this into some sort of email campaign like an instantly campaign or something and then get out there and start sending but that's only one half of it let's hypothetically say you actually wanted to send DMs to these people instead how would you go about doing that well there's a dedicated tool that essentially does a lot of the heavy lifting for you in the back end the only issue is it's you know it costs a little bit more than doing it peace meal like we did back here and then you know it
• 24:00 - 24:30 actually allows you to send it via Instagram as well so it's called AutoIGDM um AutoIGDM has pricing plans that are monthly quarterly and then yearly so I'm just going to sign up to the monthly pricing plan and then just give this a go um but let me let me walk you through the entire process first thing is click start now and then enter your email address and then I'll do nick at leftclick.ai very cool create my account then you have to obviously pay for the service so I'm going to go through and I'm going to pay for my service this allows you to send 1500 DMs a month per account it's 100% cloud-based and it's also fully automated so there's no work kind of
• 24:30 - 25:00 that you have to do on the back end you just kind of add all the stuff you want once and then it just does for you so I have to verify my email address as per usual let us go back here and then I'm just going to type autoigm verify create my account i'm just going to um copy this link actually because I don't want to do it in this browser go back here and then paste it in and now I go through the signup process of my account so I'm just going to go this and then I don't know um let's not do that choose my own please
• 25:00 - 25:30 let's do that then going to sign in save uh now I just connect my Instagram account so I'm just going to go Nick then it'll go through and attempt to connect to my Instagram account so I need to log back in and then I also need to add my own password um if you add the wrong password it'll you know kind of screw around so just give me a second to go through and actually add my password to my own Instagram account
• 25:30 - 26:00 okay and then after that you need to do what's called a secret key setup so they actually have a tutorial video that shows you um all of this basically you need to go to account center.instagram.com it'll take a list of all of the profiles that you have available to you you go down to password and security then you go two-factor authentication you go to the account of interest it'll open up this two-factor authentication screen or page when you click on that button it'll then generate
• 26:00 - 26:30 a key for you you copy this key and then what you do is you go back to AutoIGDM then you paste the key in here okay once you're done you click add account then you have now connected your account and everything is perfect so the system will eventually log into your account for you um you may get a notification saying we suspect automated behavior in your account that's completely understandable and then what you do now is connect your account to a campaign so the way that you do this is click connect to campaign click add new
• 26:30 - 27:00 up here now you have your campaign so we need to link the account that we just added so just click that button then we go in and now we can actually go um they're going to obviously give you a bunch of information about this but that's okay um you then go in and then you uh reference specific hashtags or you reference accounts okay so for instance you could look for Instagram accounts that are engaged with a specific Instagram account so in my case I have another channel called Nick Sarafh here i know that that's pretty good then I have Nick.Surf and then I don't know let's just go Instagram AI
• 27:00 - 27:30 automation let's just see what's the first thing that pops up um this person's account new link app that looks pretty cool just going to paste that in and now I have these three accounts that I am targeting which is pretty cool so from targeting you can then go to filtering you can add negative keywords and positive keywords now I'm going to be doing basic filtering i'll be looking for people with profile picks bios um I don't know if I'm going to look for website links i will exclude sexual content do definitely do not want to be DMing those i get enough of those as is
• 27:30 - 28:00 do not DM the user if you already had a conversation i'll do that too then you can also set a minimum number of followers i'm just going to do 100 okay all right from there I then um have a couple of other options obviously you need to create a message so what I'll say is there and then um here is where you would add your specific message text so hey first name just thought I'd reach out love your posts on AI automation and um
• 28:00 - 28:30 in the same field so that's obviously a pretty trash outreach message ideally you would want some sort of some sort of reason why um that's a little bit more justified than oh I think you're really cool but I just want to make sure you guys can see how this works without spending God knows how long crafting the perfect message um I'm then going to send follow-up after 2 days and then I'll just say "Hey first [Music] name checking in on this no hard feelings if you don't want to add me." And then because I'm cheeky I'm going to add a funny little face okay great after
• 28:30 - 29:00 that you define the schedule so maybe I want 9 until 5 Mountain time okay pretty nice and simple and easy then I submit my campaign once I've submitted my campaign it is now um basically in their system and once it's in their system we are queued up to start doing our outreach automatically which is pretty sweet okay great and now it's going to ask us if we want to submit the campaign you just click yes and then voila it has now been um submitted successfully which is fantastic i'm also just going to save a draft of this campaign just in case
• 29:00 - 29:30 yes I'm going to leave that page cool so we have our account connected we also have the campaign that is going um when you submit it will not begin immediately i believe either their team reviews it or they have some process in the back end to take care of it for you um but more importantly there is a statistic page where it'll actually show you all the leads that you've been messaging it'll show you results on those leads um I think you get like a nice little visualization as well and yeah that's a quick walkthrough of how to accomplish that second big step which is a direct DM path where they basically take care of all of it for you all right now let's
• 29:30 - 30:00 get to the motherload which is LinkedIn now there are variety of different ways that you could do LinkedIn outreach i've talked a lot about them across my channel have obviously created LinkedIn automation systems in NAN and make.com and stuff like that i'll have that be one of the options then I'll show you some other options that you guys could use as well so on the far left hand side here we have LinkedIn automation using hey reach or expand so just like drippy and just like um auto IGDM this is like a third party tool that you sign up to you pay some premium fee then they basically just deal with it all on the back end for you in the middle here
• 30:00 - 30:30 there's this LinkedIn AI outreach system which I developed um that uses a noode platform called NAD and then another platform called Phantom Buster kind of just connects the two together like glue um and then you know the end result is you could send customized DMs and then the last one is just going directly using sales navigator and email um I think instead of sales navigator I'm probably just going to do h maybe I will do sales navigator i don't know i might just use appy for that i'm not entirely sure we'll kind of play it by ear but um in reality like you can mix and match a lot of the tools that we're talking about and it's really just a matter of finding the the most cost effective one
• 30:30 - 31:00 okay so let's start with this tool hey Reach or Expandy you can use either one i'm just going to use expand here um and the reason why I'm going to do it is I think the pricing is a little bit cheaper than the alternative it's like 99 bucks a month or something um you end up with uh a lot here you know you could set up templates you could do campaign prioritization tons of different campaign types um country based IP addresses to minimize the probability of you getting like blocked and stuff and so on and so forth so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to click generate leads and then I'm going to go through their little signup process and then I'm
• 31:00 - 31:30 going to show you how to do this under account type I will use Expandi for my company or personal goals and click sign up they're now going to send me an email which I can obviously then verify just by checking out the Expandi verification i'm going to copy the link address just open it in this tab the reason why I I always do this is it just I don't know i don't want to like be constantly all tabbing between different tabs just want to have it all here
• 31:30 - 32:00 after that it will run me through some onboarding so I'm just doing sales i'm heard about Expandy but I've never used it let's go this is Nick's workspace you can see they're onboarding the hell out of me i like it now I'm going to connect my LinkedIn account i'm going to use a Chrome extension for this so I'm going to click this button i'm going to download this Chrome extension and basically instead of you having to enter your username or password which is fine and all um it it's going to use a Chrome extension which will automatically connect to your LinkedIn for you so it'll take you to the
• 32:00 - 32:30 LinkedIn page you'll then go here continue to Expandy then it will redirect you back to the app um page that you were on before except this time it'll also have your cookies which will allow it to access everything that it needs to access to automate the hell out of your processes cool um I'm now going to choose the country that I want to run this in now I am Canadian and so my usage up until now has been from Canada so I'm going to want to minimize the discrepancy between the usage and then obviously where I'm going uh I'm now going to connect my card
• 32:30 - 33:00 details okay it's now creating a workspace subscription for me after that it's going to synchronize my account basically run through that Chrome extension again do some connecting behind the scenes then it's going to ask you to invite your teammates so I'm just going to do that later and then voila you know we we have some some goals that we can put in here um get your your ideal customer profile that's what ICP stands for so maybe um I don't know I help exa uh let's say sales chief sales officers with
• 33:00 - 33:30 driving leads affordably my goal with this campaign is to book more sales meetings nice so I'm going to take that and then AI use it to like do something cool um and then we can do a basic search we can do a sales navigator search or we can do a recruiter search so it recommends that I do the basic search so um what I can do is I can find prospects in LinkedIn then copy the link then paste it directly in here so I could just actually just type this in and it'll actually go through and like like it just used AI to generate the search um so you can obviously rank this down and get super super into the
• 33:30 - 34:00 nitty-gritty here you could add a bunch of filters based off location and where the person lives and stuff but this is the link that you are going to be providing expand that it is going to be doing the scraping from so we're searching for chief sales officers using this link okay after that we can just enter the name we can also auto reload this um and it looks like you can't actually autoreload it right now you need to do it the second time for some reason maybe it's just a little bug of the way that they do things and then here is more or less how that works um how the entire platform works you reach
• 34:00 - 34:30 out to second and third degree connections with personalized connection requests and follow-ups but you can also select a variety of other types you could do sequence campaigns groups event invites mobile connectors you could actually try and do event participants so you could do messengers company follow invites you have a bunch of options essentially which is pretty cool um for now it's just going to use AI to like you know whip up the copy of your campaign whip up everything you need so this is the quote unquote personalized message do I think these personalized messages are great no if you guys want more insight on that just check out some of my copyrightiting videos i think you can realistically do a lot better than
• 34:30 - 35:00 this generally you just want to make it seem as personalized as humanly possible um you can allow it to send with or without the connector message um I'm just going to leave it at as this for now and I'm going to leave the follow-up messages as default follow-up messages as default and all the spacing and stuff like that is default as well it is nice to allow you to get um kind of like I want to say 80% of the 80% of the results just out of the box with AI um but I do find that that last 20% is super valuable so I would highly recommend if you're going to launch any
• 35:00 - 35:30 sort of campaign here definitely make sure to do that yourself make sure you know what the offer is that you're selling make sure you know how to pitch yourself make sure to put yourself in the prospect's shoes you know if somebody were reach out to me you know how could they make that outreach look as personalized as possible um because you know if it's not likelihood of somebody getting back to you um is a lot lower okay and once that's done the leads are now ready for action you can let the networking begin they say and then from there we are good to go so you can create your workspace
• 35:30 - 36:00 based off your activity you know add your working days and so on and so forth i'm just going to skip that and then you're good to go this will start scraping leads on the back end for you once it's ready all you need to do is just confirm by giving this a click and then going to the top right hand corner and pressing activate you won't be able to do that until the leads are done scraping but that happens relatively quickly I would say all right aside from that there are a couple of additional ways that you could scrape LinkedIn i'm going to be covering the LinkedIn AI outreach system by the yours truly Nick Saraf um I use a variety of tools to that end the big tool that I use is
• 36:00 - 36:30 called NADN which is a no code drag and drop no or low code drag and drop builder that allows you to like automate a lot of processes in the back end and so I've actually created a flow here which you guys can check my video for just check the um the link up here or just look to I think it was my my third last video that just says Naden LinkedIn system or something like that that covers how to do this but essentially what we do is very similar to what Expand is doing i'm just going to go um on form submission give this a quick test it'll now ask me to describe my audience so I'll just say founders
• 36:30 - 37:00 partners or um co-founders at creative agencies between 1 to 100 people in the United States if I submit this um I can then just run through this test the reason why I'm showing you guys how to do this in a no code tool is just because I think it's important that you guys reduce your reliance on third party tools cuz these third party tools do like take a fair cut off the top right like it costs a fair amount of money to use them as you saw I've already spent like 300 bucks we we're barely uh you know it's barely noon today um when you know how to use no code tools like this
• 37:00 - 37:30 you can usually do a big arbitrage on the value of these tools and then you can get up and running for cents on the dollar really anyway um I generated a search URL in Apollo and basically I just got the same sort of thing that you would have gotten in LinkedIn so a big list of people from there uh what you do is you basically run what's called an appy actor so if you aren't familiar an actor is the term for a scraper used in the tool that I was showing you guys a moment ago Apify and this no code tool nan actually allows me to spin up and
• 37:30 - 38:00 scrape a list of leads using that completely automatically so I don't actually have to go through and you know like manually do it or anything i actually just do it all automatically and what it's doing is it's now scraping a bunch of leads for me so it's actually getting a bunch of email addresses of these people which I can use to do any sort of outreach that I want okay and then once all that's done the scraper output it's find over here like we were doing before or the way that this works is we actually have access to all of that data now just in NAND which is pretty cool um and then we can actually go and we can do like some personalized outreach so my personalized outreach is
• 38:00 - 38:30 a little bit better I think than most of the personalized outreach out there i basically take a sentence from their profile data and then I use it to customize a little bit of outreach um so love seeing your creativity love seeing your knack for fresh ideas you know I'm looking for X Y and Z would love to connect from there I add it to a Google sheet which is uh not super complicated essentially I'm just adding a new row to a sheet which I think we've probably all done here and then um finally at the very end I trigger what's called a Phantom Buster agent and this is the
• 38:30 - 39:00 cool part um this is where we use another third party tool called Phantom Buster but I find it's just a little bit um more cost effective than the other ones if I go to the Phantom that is running basically what I have is an auto icebreaker connect this is one of the many tools that Phantom Buster allows you to use but essentially what this one does is this one actually just sends a connection request along with like a customized message for you so I go down to results i've actually already sent a bunch of connection requests to people and um the messages are like this one hey Frank loved seeing your creative director role i'm also crafting stories thought I'd connect and then um I
• 39:00 - 39:30 actually automatically send a connection request alongside the DM so if you think about it under the hood exact same thing Expand is doing but I can do it all for substantially less money than that ongoing membership okay and then the last way to scrape things from LinkedIn is you scrape the data from LinkedIn and then you just do outreach over email instead and this is actually the primary way that most um AI automation agencies uh recruitment companies and other services do things so instead of actually going to LinkedIn directly what we're doing is we're using a third party service Apollo which I showed you guys a moment ago the thing is Apollo just scrapes other leads from LinkedIn anyway
• 39:30 - 40:00 so we're scraping a service that scrapes a service that scrapes a service that scrapes a service so the the value there is um you know it's just a lot cheaper than if you were to go to LinkedIn Sales Navigator directly and uh what we do is um we run the exact same flow that I showed you a moment ago so we export these 500 results and now we have a bunch of email addresses right so with these email addresses we then just pump them into a cold email tool like instantly.ai or uh maybe Smartle as well smartle and Instantly.ai are probably right now like the the two big
• 40:00 - 40:30 competitors here um and what you can do is you just you just paste the email in then you write your own sequence just like we did earlier and then it automatically sends them out um based off of some mailbox uh settings so if you guys want a guide on how to do that I've I've made many videos on my channel about how to get up and running with cold email very quickly um but this is another way that we could do a data source all right let's cover the lovely Facebook facebook has a couple of different routes that you could take you could do um Facebook group scraping using a show or you could use a third
• 40:30 - 41:00 party tool called Reach Owl to do the connecting for you so just to keep things simple I'm just going to start with Reach Owl and then we'll talk all other stuff later um in order to do this just type in Reach Owl this is the platform that we want to use go to their pricing here you'll see that their basic plan starts at $29 a month with one social media account so I obviously want to connect Facebook uh what I'm going to do is I'm going to click register up here then I'm just going to go through their sign up
• 41:00 - 41:30 process once that is done they have a little onboarding sequence they're going to take you through then you can continue to dashboard and now you just connect your social media account as you see they also do Instagram but I think their main value is Facebook i think autoigm does better and I'm going to log in with cookies now what you need in order to make this work is you need a Chrome extension called Cookie Editor cookie Editor just allows you to extract cookies on various websites so I'm going to be doing that for my Facebook account
• 41:30 - 42:00 right now going to grab cookie editor add it to my Chrome menu i'm then going to pin it then I'm just going to go like Facebook actually I think I already have a Facebook tab open here right there I do and then what I want to do is um I just want to go into cookie editor um I need to request permission for all sites then down over here you see I have a variety of cookies i believe what I need to do is just export this as JSON and then I go back to reach and then I paste my cookies and let me just double and quadruple check that that's
• 42:00 - 42:30 good okay looks good and then what I do is I just set an account title Nyx Facebook then click next okay um then you have to find what's called your proxy URL and then after you're done with that you just need to connect your proxy so I just scrolled down from select from shared proxies and used 181214117123 it's much easier way to do things than actually having to go through the rigomear roll of like setting up your own proxy account but I want you to know that you can set up
• 42:30 - 43:00 your own proxy account if you want to okay from there it'll ask you if you want to start warming up the account so I say yes um then you can set your minimum intervals these are all recommended intervals and then you can also just turn off the campaign if a bunch of your uh friend requests or messages fail in a row so I I recommend turning that on as well this is these are obviously all just safety procedures once you're done with that you can actually set up a campaign so we go over here create your first campaign and here you have a variety of different things that you could do okay so for instance you could um I don't
• 43:00 - 43:30 know you you could extract Facebook profiles from a custom list of URLs so I'll show you guys all about that later but then you could find Facebook friends of somebody that you're already friends with you could do Facebook video comments so you could actually pull a video on Facebook and then extract all of the people that have commented on that post you could also do ad reactions so if somebody has posted or given a thumbs up to an ad or something you can actually have that um you can actually scrape the list of people there and then send them a message or whatever then you can do group members you can do um
• 43:30 - 44:00 Facebook post ad comments as well so I'm just going to do post ad reactions i need to go find basically a Facebook ad URL so I'm just going to go over here and hopefully nobody that I'm connected with has done anything super embarrassing okay so this one from Grant Cardone looks pretty good i think in order to do this I don't I don't actually remember exactly how i think I click embed okay now we have access to that specific ad which if I click on I'll now go directly to the post and then what I do is I go back to hey
• 44:00 - 44:30 reach paste it in here you'll see that there's a the a bunch of extra fields here like question mark refbed um that's okay what you want is you just want it facebook.com/post/post ID okay so just delete this number have the post ID there click next okay okay and then from here you can set up a message sequence so do you want to set a friend or a follow request you could be like these two lovely gentlemen or you could send a message sequence i'm just going to call this example reach owl campaign i'll run this from my Facebook um daily limit is 30
• 44:30 - 45:00 i'll filter by audience or location i guess I'll go like USA um and I'll also do United States um the reason why is cuz I think this is just like a string so some people are going to write USA on their profile other people are going to do USA i'll do both genders send message to new prospects only uh I'll say don't send messages to people that already have conversations with me then I'll do my my pitch i loved this hey I figured you were interested
• 45:00 - 45:30 in um Grant Cardone given that I saw your like on one of his ads i run a YouTube channel at around 60k subs i wanted to see if you might be interested in XYZ maybe I'll delay one minute and click save and then I can start my campaign if if you just click start your campaign it'll start so voila done we are now um essentially reaching out to people as we
• 45:30 - 46:00 speak uh well first we're we need to warm up our account and sometimes that takes a while um but I'm just going to leave it at that my campaign's all good to go obviously there are additional settings that I could screw around with since I don't actually want to run that or send that exact message I'm just going to turn mine off okay okay and then the other way is we're going to use Appify to scrape a bunch of Facebook group members um and then based off of that what we can do is we can look through their profiles to see if they have like a website or something and then if they do we can add them to an email sequence same as what we've seen before so the way that we do this is we go back to Appify and I just type Facebook facebook obviously can scrape
• 46:00 - 46:30 posts comments groups pages ads ad library the one I want is group scraper um I think this one is $45 a month for rentals let me just see if there's one that might be paper result instead not seeing one specifically for groups unfortunately h Yeah you might just have to do the $45 rental one if you wanted to do groups themselves regardless I think they might offer you a trial yeah they do offer you a free 7-day trial so I'm just going to sign up to this and we'll give it a try and then I'll just make sure to turn it off after I'm
• 46:30 - 47:00 done okay so from here I can actually enter in my group scraper just going to go to this group URL and see if um this is a maths formulas one which is public i think it needs to be public so we're just going to paste that in number of posts I want i don't know let's say 10 uh 20 sorting order new post search by letter search by keyword by year as well and then you can do a time frame i'm just going to click start we're going to rent the actor for the $45 a month and then I'll just make sure to turn that off after okay so after this is done you can
• 47:00 - 47:30 see we got a big list of all the posts that were made now in this specific group which I don't think is a good example most of the posts are just made by the same person but ideally you'd have a group that's active and dynamic and you have a lot of other people that are commenting and stuff anyway um what you'll end up with is you end up with this column called user with two fields and in it you'll have an ID okay so this is actually the ID of the Facebook profile that left the the comment so if I go facebook.com and I think what I do just scroll back here i think I
• 47:30 - 48:00 basically go user and then ID so I'm actually just going to feed in the ID and then you'll see it'll just go directly over to the specific person that left that post okay and this person Ellie Surya that you know runs a bunch of profiles and stuff um the cool thing is when you have these you can then go to about and sometimes under their contact or basic info they'll have websites and social links and the second you have a website and or social link you can just do the same thing that we did earlier with LinkedIn right that's pretty simple and pretty easy um in order to get all of that information all you need to do is you need to take this
• 48:00 - 48:30 data that you've gotten so we'd export this okay as a CSV and then feed it into another scraper on Appify in this case called Facebook profile and page scraper and what you do is you just feed in a bunch of profile URLs so it' be um facebook.com/ whatever that number is and then you could actually feed that in and then that would go and it would extract you all of the the website data the contact info everything essentially that you need um and the benefit there too is you can actually get very creative with this you could scrape a bunch of their posts after to look for
• 48:30 - 49:00 websites that are mentioned as well so I mean obviously the rabbit hole here in scraping is really deep uh my rule of thumb when I'm doing scraping is the more work that I have to do to get the information usually the better the list is but I kind of need to weigh that against the cost that it takes for me to do so right like you can get a super nuanced extraordinarily deep list that nobody's ever contacted before but if it cost you like $10 a lead to do so you need to make sure that the ROI works in your favor for whatever you're selling okay let's talk a little bit about how to scrape YouTube the simplest and
• 49:00 - 49:30 easiest way is using the Appify YouTube to email scraper i do this all the time myself and it's about as simple as we just go to back to our actors back to our store um just go YouTube and then type in the word email and you'll see that there'll be an email extractor channel email scraper mass YouTube email scraper i mean there there a bunch that people have set up basically the way that this works is a lot of the time on people's YouTube accounts myself included you'll actually find an email address listed somewhere i don't know where i mean it depends sometimes people put them directly in the bios sometimes
• 49:30 - 50:00 people put them in like a little contact sometimes people say for business um for business purposes you know feel free to email this if you have an inquiry but basically we'll just scrape all those automatically using one of these and then just um add them to a big sheet for you so yeah I see a bunch here uh let me just see if there's a paper result one um let me see this one looks pretty good advanced and cheap by Stormcraper so I'm just going to give this a try and then what you can do is you can actually add a keyword for the people that you want you're not even adding in a specific um
• 50:00 - 50:30 account or something like that what you're doing is you're actually just scraping emails for marketing that's probably one of the easiest ones so why don't I type like AI automation i'm cool with any of these email domains so these ones are all fine for me then you click save and start it'll actually go and it'll find um email addresses on YouTube profiles that rank for the term AI automation so that's pretty cool feel free to use that if you guys want to um experiment with sort of like an all-in-one solution there's also uh if I go back to all actors and then
• 50:30 - 51:00 store over here i think if you type channel email it'll actually um allow you to put in a list of URLs so um I don't know maybe I put in my my my URL here Nick Sariah for something um and then it'll go and it'll scrape specifically emails at that URL okay so we just pumped in a bunch of AI automation channels in and you can see we've actually gone through and we've extracted emails for them um simply using the scraper um but yeah aside from that there are a couple of other ways
• 51:00 - 51:30 that you can go a little bit more nuanced a little bit deeper um just type in YouTube channel email and then from there you'll get like a YouTube channel bulk email scraper YouTube channel email scraper YouTube email finder and so on and so forth so what's the value here well once you have um once you have that uh you can just pump this into an instantly or smart lead sequence and start sending cold outreach um there's no inherent DM mechanism on YouTube unfortunately so I'll leave it at that but um yeah it's probably one of the simplest and easiest ways to get up and running sourcing data off of YouTube
• 51:30 - 52:00 especially with like more niche keywords and stuff like that and then last but not least here is how to scrape Tik Tok now variety of different ways to do so i'm going to be using Ampify scrapers i'm not married to Ampify here at all they're a great platform but there are variety of other ways you could do this if you wanted to i just continuously rely on this because they just have a bunch of like out of the box ones that work and basically you know you can use Appify and then you can use a no code tool like make.com to take that data and then review it and then I don't know add it to some email sequence like I was talking about earlier before sending them out so uh first things first we
• 52:00 - 52:30 choose our scraping method as we see there are variety of different things we could do hashtags usernames videos relevant keywords right then we just run this one actor called Tik Tok data extractor i don't know where all of these arrows are coming from but they are certainly annoying so we're going to go back to our actors list store and I'm just going to type in Tik Tok what you want is this data extractor one over here this is by far the best the value here as well is it's results base so $4 per thousand pretty easy videos with this hashtag let's type AI automation
• 52:30 - 53:00 what this is going to do is it's going to go and extract a bunch of videos for me but there are also a bunch of other options i could do profiles okay so I could actually add in a username and then I could scrape all the videos and profile data from people that um that person follows or something like that i could do um a direct search i could actually enter video URLs and then I could also download Tik Tok videos too pretty crazy right lots lots of options here anyway I'm just going to try scraping let's say 10 videos per hashtag AI automation i'm going click save and
• 53:00 - 53:30 start now what's happening is this is obviously spinning up that server like we talked about but this is probably one of the best actors on the Appify platform so you get a lot of data and all of it's really relevant which is nice all right so what did we end up doing we got a big list of data here we got the author we even got the author's avatar profile pick right we got the text of the post we got the digs the shares the number of plays the number of comments we got the duration in seconds you can see that being valuable we even got a bunch of metadata about music but that's not all if I click all fields we got even more data okay so now we have
• 53:30 - 54:00 things like play count we got metadata related to the music so if there's a song we actually know the song that was used you can use this to like scrape like really good songs to use in videos whether it's pinned slideshow the location um the ID of the post uh the various h the other hashtags that they use so maybe you use a automation as like your primary hashtag but then you scrape all the other ones and then search for those again the rabbit hole goes pretty deep here um but anyway so now basically the the thing that's important for us is we have the uh we have the profile URL we also have the
• 54:00 - 54:30 name here uh and then we also have a bunch of information about the person so you know join the AI ranking community join this join that you know we we have a bunch of data that we could theoretically pass through some sort of system to generate um an icebreaker for right which is pretty cool once you have a list of all of that you can then search profiles okay so I'm just going to go back to that run and I'm just going to show you guys an example if I wanted to run Nikico AI ranking then if I wanted to extract people that rank for hashtags
• 54:30 - 55:00 like a automation and then I wanted to extract a bunch of detailed profile data about them okay this is what that would look like let me just delete this and now I'm only scraping the video uh I'm only scraping the profile itself so now this is going to be spinning up a server just like it did before and every other time and it's going to be getting us a bunch of data all right after you get a big list of all of the authors it's kind of a clever and hacky way of doing things but what you have to do is you have to connect chat GPT to this list
• 55:00 - 55:30 then what we're going to do is we're going to feed in all of this author information into um chat GBT and see if we can have it return us a website let me show you guys what that process actually looks like in practice so first thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to use the get data set items and this isn't a make.com video but I just want to show you guys that it is actually feasible we're going to get data set items from this data uh Tik Tok data extractor so I'll go to storage and this data set ID is right
• 55:30 - 56:00 over here i'm going to feed this in and basically all this is doing is this is giving us access to all of that data that we just had earlier okay now the field that we really care about is under author meta and it's the name and then maybe the nickname as well so what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab all of that data i'm going to feed that through an open AAI API call so I'm then going to call OpenAI the specific model I'm going to call it's going to be a search this search model essentially allows you to look up results so what I'm going to
• 56:00 - 56:30 do is I'm going to use a developer/system so you are helpful intelligent data extraction and search assistant then under message I'm going to go roll your task is to take as input a um Tik Tok Tik Tok profile JSON and look for and return a website for that person in JSON it should be their either their company
• 56:30 - 57:00 site or their personal site use this format then I'm going to say website if no website is found leave it blank only return your results in JSON your first character should be this okay i'm then going to let's just go down to show advanced settings and go JSON object parse JSON response i'm not going to do any of these other settings what I'm then going to do is between this I'm just going to go
• 57:00 - 57:30 transform JSON what this will do is this will allow me to get this object which I care about which is author meta and just turn it into a big JSON string the value in there is I'm just going to be able to get all of the all the data about that person which should help my search so I'm then going to do text content JSON string then we'll just see if we can get the results and I'm only going to return for now top five results to show you guys what this looks like um looks like JSON objects
• 57:30 - 58:00 not supported oh my bad you can't actually use Yes that's why I um hardcoded it uh you can't actually use this JSON object as a um yeah you actually just need to go empty there okay now we're going to run this it's now going to perform a bunch of searches for us under behind the scenes and sort of under the hood okay so if it can find the website it will now in this case it's finding school's website because this person had a specific offer that went back this person did not have a website this person had a school website because they
• 58:00 - 58:30 had a school community this person actually found their website which was nice then this person uh looks like just actually get the output of that this person had their website as well it looks like out of I don't know five profiles we got two what you do is you then go to a Google sheet and then you just add that data if I go to sheets.google then go down to Nick I leftclick and then make a new Google sheet i just call this Tik Tok data then here I go website and then I go
• 58:30 - 59:00 profile uh I don't know Tik Tok profile then I go back to my make.com scenario if I then choose that Google sheet I'll actually show you guys what it looks like when we fill it in just go sheet one table contains headers and the website will be the parsed version of this so I'm going to parse this out feed in that result then from this what we want is five.json cool and then Tik Tok profile for that specific record would just be
• 59:00 - 59:30 Nico ranking let's see what that looks like as we parse it out it's going to again perform those searches and then if I open this up you can see is we're now finding the website for the people that have websites so we didn't find one for Automation Universe we found one for Nathan Hodgson and then we also found one for Callum Carver and you know as we see we've gotten two out of the five so about a 40% enrichment rate you could also obviously improve the quality of the prompts if you wanted to do things like I don't know tell it not to put school communities in there because school's obviously blowing up right now
• 59:30 - 60:00 and that's a a big place that a lot of creators are monetizing instead of having their own website but yeah that is uh more or less it on Tik Tok i went through all applicable social media profiles today a lot of fun putting this video together if you guys have any questions about how to get up and running and scraping your own social media platforms on your own let me know for now I'm going to hastily go through and uh remove my credit card from a bunch of trials and then also cancel a bunch of these because I just wanted to show you guys what this looks like and I was happy to pay a little bit of money
• 60:00 - 60:30 to make sure that I could if you guys like learning about scraping and if you guys like the idea of getting an automation business up and running that does this sort of thing professionally for businesses definitely check out Maker School it's my 0ero to1 road map to show you guys how to launch and monetize your own AI automation business uh if you guys already have an established company and maybe you want to take it to the next step check out my community that shows you how to take something that's working and then scale it up even more thank you very much for watching if you guys could do me a big solid like subscribe do all the fun YouTube stuff i'll catch you on the next video bye