Track Needle Marketplace Leaderboard
Scrapes the Needle workflow template gallery daily, analyzes creator usage stats and platform trends with AI, and delivers a top 5 leaderboard report to Slack.
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Daily Needle Marketplace Leaderboard Tracker
This workflow automates a daily scrape of the Needle workflow template gallery to track creator performance and platform trends. Every morning at 9:00 AM UTC, it grabs all visible data from the gallery page, processes it using an AI model to identify the top creators and usage trends, and then posts a digestible leaderboard report directly to a Slack channel.
What It Does
- Fires automatically every day at 9:00 AM UTC to start the process.
- Scrapes the gallery using a headless browser to extract all visible text from the Needle workflow template gallery page.
- Analyzes the data with an AI agent that parses the raw text, aggregates usage stats for each creator, ranks the top five creators by total uses, and detects the dominant workflow trend.
- Formats the output into a clean leaderboard and trend analysis message.
- Sends a Slack message to a specified channel so your team can see the results immediately.
What You Need
- A Needle account to use the workflow and access the template gallery.
- Access to the Needle platform with the ability to run scheduled triggers and headless web browsing.
- A Slack workspace and a Slack bot token configured for sending messages to your target channel.
How the Flow Works
| Node | Description |
|---|---|
| Scheduled Trigger | Automatically starts the workflow every day at 09:00 AM UTC. No manual intervention required. |
| Headless Browser Scraper | Visits the Needle workflow templates page and extracts all visible text, including template names, creators, and usage counts, producing a raw text dump. |
| AI Data Analyst | Analyzes the raw text to find all creators and their workflow usage numbers, aggregates total uses per creator, ranks the top 5 creators with their most popular workflow, and identifies trending workflow categories. |
| Formatter (Code Node) | Prepares a neatly formatted Slack message incorporating the top 5 leaderboard, the market trend analysis, and the scrape date. |
| Slack Message Sender | Posts the formatted report into your designated Slack channel for team-wide sharing. |
Output
At the end of each workflow run, you'll receive a Slack message containing:
- Top 5 Creator Leaderboard — Creators ranked by total workflow uses, each listed with their most popular workflow.
- Marketplace Trend Analysis — A concise paragraph summarizing dominant workflow categories and platform insights.
- Scrape Timestamp — So you always know how fresh the data is.
Notes
- The workflow runs fully automatically every day, but you can also trigger it manually for an ad hoc update.
- No API keys are needed to scrape the Needle template gallery since it uses a headless browser to collect publicly visible data.
- Make sure your Slack bot has permission to post in the target channel. You can adjust the channel ID in the Slack connector settings to match your workspace.
- The AI model processes large text dumps, so keep in mind any usage limits or quotas on your Needle platform.
- This tracker helps you stay on top of creator performance and market trends without any manual data crunching.
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