Google Events Search Data Extractor to Google Sheets via SerpApi - n8n Workflow

• Market Researchers needing location-specific event data.


• Event Organizers tracking competitors or local happenings.


• Data Analysts requiring structured scraping output for large-scale analysis.


• Users looking for advanced n8n templates demonstrating API pagination and data transformation.

Acquiring structured, real-time event data from Google Search results often requires complex tooling or manual effort. This powerful n8n workflow template provides an automated, scalable solution by integrating SerpApi, which specializes in structured search engine results.

The n8n workflow solves the problem of unstructured data aggregation and pagination complexity. It handles multi-request pagination automatically (essential when dealing with search result limits) and uses a custom n8n node (the Code node) to flatten the nested JSON structure. The final output is clean, actionable data appended directly to Google Sheets, making it one of the most useful n8n templates for efficient data collection.

The execution of this comprehensive n8n workflow is straightforward but relies on advanced configuration of each n8n node:

1. Start: The process begins with the Manual Trigger n8n trigger, allowing the user to initiate the data scrape on demand.


2. Configuration: The ‘Set Search Parameters’ n8n node defines the initial search query (e.g., “Events in Texas”), the desired totalevents count, and the starting pagination index.


3. API Extraction: The ‘SerpApi Events Request’ (an HTTP Request n8n node) sends the parameterized query to SerpApi, specifically targeting the googleevents engine. Crucially, this n8n node is configured for automatic pagination, executing multiple requests with a set delay (2 seconds) to retrieve the total number of events specified.


4. Data Processing: The ‘Process & Flatten Events’ Code n8n node receives the potentially multi-page API responses. It iterates through the responses, extracts the nested events_results array, flattens the data so that each individual event becomes a separate item, and adds the original search query to the metadata of each event.


5. Output: Finally, the ‘Save to Google Sheets’ n8n node appends the clean, flattened data rows into a designated Google Spreadsheet, making the extracted data ready for immediate analysis.

To deploy this useful n8n workflow, follow these steps:

1. Import: Copy the provided JSON data and import it into your n8n instance via the Workflows section (New > Import from JSON).


2. SerpApi Credentials: Locate the ‘SerpApi Events Request’ n8n node. You must set up a 'Generic Credential Type' (HTTP Query Auth) and provide your SerpApi API key for authentication.


3. Google Sheets Credentials: Locate the ‘Save to Google Sheets’ n8n node. Set up a Google Sheets OAuth2 API credential to grant n8n access to your Google Drive account.


4. Spreadsheet Setup: Obtain the provided example spreadsheet link (or create your own) and ensure you make a copy. Update the 'Save to Google Sheets' n8n node configuration with your new Document ID and Sheet Name.


5. Configure Search: Modify the ‘Set Search Parameters’ n8n node to change the query and total_events count as required for your specific scraping job.


6. Execute: Run the n8n workflow using the Manual Trigger.

Manual Trigger n8n trigger: The starting point of the n8n workflow, allowing for on-demand execution.
Set Search Parameters (Set n8n node): Defines the critical input variables: query (the search term), totalevents (the total desired results), and start (initial pagination offset).
SerpApi Events Request (HTTP Request n8n node): This core SerpApi integration node handles the API communication. Key configuration includes using googleevents as the engine and robust pagination settings to fetch up to the calculated maximum number of requests (based on totalevents/10) with a specified interval.
Process & Flatten Events (Code n8n node): A custom scripting n8n node essential for data preparation. It aggregates results from all paginated requests, iterates through the nested data structure (eventsresults), and flattens it, ensuring each event record is tagged with the original search query for context.

• Save to Google Sheets (Google Sheets n8n node): The final action. It uses the ‘Append’ operation to add the processed data rows to a specified spreadsheet, mapping fields like title, link, address, and query to defined columns.