Step 2: Connect SERP API Search

Configure the search request and extract the top URLs for scraping.

1. Add the Fetch Search Results node and connect it to Form Input Trigger.
2. Credential Required: Connect your serpApi credentials.
3. Set URL to https://serpapi.com/search.
4. Enable Send Query and set query parameter q to {{ $json.Keyword }} -inurl:reddit.com -inurl:quora.com.
5. Set query parameter location to United States.
6. Add the Parse Result Links node and set JSON Output to { "Keyword": "{{ $('Form Input Trigger').item.json.Keyword }}", "URLs": [ "{{ $json.organic_results[0].link }}", "{{ $json.organic_results[1].link }}", "{{ $json.organic_results[2].link }}", "{{ $json.organic_results[3].link }}", "{{ $json.organic_results[4].link }}" ] }.

⚠️ Common Pitfall: If SERP API returns fewer than five results, the URL list can include empty values. Consider adjusting the search query or adding validation if needed.

Step 3: Scrape and Prepare Article Content

Split the URL list, fetch each page, extract body HTML, and convert it to Markdown.

1. Add Split URL List and set Field to Split Out to URLs.
2. Add Retrieve Page HTML and set URL to {{ $json.URLs }}.
3. In Retrieve Page HTML, enable Send Headers and set headers: User-Agent to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.0.0.0 Safari/537.36, Accept to text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8, Accept-Encoding to gzip, deflate, br, and Accept-Language to en-US,en;q=0.5.
4. Add Limit Articles and set Max Items to 3.
5. Add Extract Body HTML with Operation set to extractHtmlContent, and extract key html using CSS selector body with Skip Selectors img, meta, a.
6. Add Convert to Markdown and set HTML to {{ $json.html }} and Destination Key to markdown.

⚠️ Common Pitfall: Some websites block scraping. If you see empty HTML, try adjusting headers or choosing different URLs.

Step 4: Aggregate and Generate the Outline

Aggregate the scraped articles and send them to the AI model to generate the SEO outline.

1. Add Aggregate Articles and set Fields to Aggregate to include markdown.
2. Add Generate Outline Draft and connect it to Aggregate Articles.
3. Credential Required: Connect your openAiApi credentials to Generate Outline Draft.
4. Set the Model to gpt-4o and Temperature to 0.7.
5. In Messages, keep the content that references {{ $('Parse Result Links').item.json.Keyword }} and the three markdown article blocks to ensure the outline is built from the scraped sources.
6. Connect Generate Outline Draft to Next Step Placeholder for future expansion.

Step 5: Test and Activate Your Workflow

Validate the end-to-end flow and enable it for production use.

1. Click Execute Workflow and submit a test keyword in Form Input Trigger.
2. Verify that Fetch Search Results returns SERP data and Parse Result Links outputs a populated URLs array.
3. Confirm that Convert to Markdown outputs markdown content for three articles and Aggregate Articles collects them into an array.
4. Check Generate Outline Draft for a structured outline response.
5. Once successful, toggle the workflow to Active to run it for real submissions.