{ "name": "Get a Slack alert for new negative app reviews (Google Play and App Store)", "nodes": [ { "parameters": { "content": "## Get a Slack alert for new negative app reviews (Google Play and App Store)\n\n### Who's it for\nMobile product managers, app developers, support and ASO teams who want to see every new 1-3 star review of their apps on both stores in one place, and answer before the rating drops.\n\n### How it works\n1. Every morning the Schedule Trigger starts the workflow.\n2. The **Settings** node holds your apps (Google Play package names, App Store IDs or store links), the country and the highest star rating to alert on.\n3. The **App Reviews Scraper** Actor on Apify (`plainrows/app-reviews-scraper`) reads the newest reviews with **Only new reviews** on: it remembers the reviews it already delivered, so each run returns only reviews posted since the last one.\n4. A Code node keeps the new reviews at or under your rating, groups them by app and store and builds one message with stars, text, app version, date and a link to the app page.\n5. The message is posted to Slack. No new low rating, no message.\n\n### Requirements\n- An Apify account (free plan available) and its API token.\n- A Slack workspace and the Slack credential in n8n.\n- The Apify node is the verified community node `@apify/n8n-nodes-apify` (available on n8n Cloud; on self-hosted n8n install it from Settings > Community nodes).\n\n### How to customize\n- Edit `apps` (one per line), `country`, `maxStars` and `monitorName` in **Settings**. Use a new `monitorName` to start a fresh history.\n- Set `maxStars` to 5 to get every new review; duplicate the Actor node to watch several countries.\n- Replace Slack with Gmail, Microsoft Teams, Jira or Google Sheets using the same fields.\n\nReviewer names are not collected. Each check pays a small fee per block of reviews requested (1 block per Google Play app, 1 per 25 App Store reviews) plus a price per new review.", "height": 760, "width": 520 }, "id": "c44b687f-53fb-5ea6-a22d-0a11e91d775a", "name": "Description", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "typeVersion": 1, "position": [ -660, -340 ] }, { "parameters": { "content": "### Setup\n1. Put your apps in `apps` (one per line: Google Play package name, App Store ID or store link), set `country` and `maxStars` in **Settings**.\n2. Add your Apify credential (free account at apify.com) to *Get new reviews*.\n3. Connect Slack and pick the channel in *Post to Slack*.\n4. Run once by hand: the first run seeds the memory with the newest reviews.\n\n**Cost:** a small fee per block of reviews requested plus a price per new review (see the Actor's Pricing tab); the node caps each run with *Maximum Cost per Run*.", "height": 340, "width": 420, "color": 7 }, "id": "0908f398-845d-563e-b679-43950c5789c8", "name": "Setup", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "typeVersion": 1, "position": [ 440, -340 ] }, { "parameters": { "rule": { "interval": [ { "field": "days", "triggerAtHour": 8 } ] } }, "id": "e2596245-cb74-532e-b101-d8debc94d7ff", "name": "Every day 8:00", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger", "typeVersion": 1.2, "position": [ 0, 120 ] }, { "parameters": { "assignments": { "assignments": [ { "id": "ebd3fa0e-6fdd-5d8e-b330-899412c95739", "name": "apps", "value": "com.spotify.music\nhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580", "type": "string" }, { "id": "b3e18147-680b-519f-8b35-165889bd658d", "name": "country", "value": "US", "type": "string" }, { "id": "313652c5-c65d-5d0c-a500-649d341dc0c9", "name": "maxStars", "value": 3, "type": "number" }, { "id": "4a7ef553-01db-5c8d-9775-457cf9e549a0", "name": "monitorName", "value": "n8n-new-app-reviews", "type": "string" } ] }, "options": {} }, "id": "877af9bb-2f73-5380-a0d8-3dec9ee6f1a0", "name": "Settings", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.set", "typeVersion": 3.4, "position": [ 220, 120 ] }, { "parameters": { "resource": "Actors", "operation": "Run actor and get dataset", "actorId": "plainrows~app-reviews-scraper", "customBody": "={{ JSON.stringify({ apps: $json.apps.split('\\n').map((a) => a.trim()).filter(Boolean), country: $json.country, maxReviewsPerApp: 25, sortBy: 'newest', onlyNewReviews: true, monitorName: $json.monitorName }) }}", "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1 }, "id": "13ccb8ef-f529-5c48-86ea-6cb4af90bca7", "name": "Get new reviews", "type": "@apify/n8n-nodes-apify.apify", "typeVersion": 1, "position": [ 440, 120 ], "credentials": { "apifyApi": { "id": "", "name": "Apify account" } } }, { "parameters": { "jsCode": "// One Slack message listing new reviews at or under maxStars, grouped by app and store. Nothing to report: no message.\nconst max = Number($('Settings').first().json.maxStars ?? 3);\nconst reviews = $input.all().map((i) => i.json).filter((r) => r.found !== false && r.rating !== null && r.rating <= max);\nif (reviews.length === 0) return [];\nconst storeName = { google_play: 'Google Play', app_store: 'App Store' };\nconst byApp = {};\nfor (const r of reviews) (byApp[`${r.appTitle ?? r.appId} (${storeName[r.store] ?? r.store}, ${r.searchCountry})`] ??= []).push(r);\nconst stars = (n) => '★'.repeat(n) + '☆'.repeat(5 - n);\nconst blocks = Object.entries(byApp).map(([app, list]) => {\n const lines = list.slice(0, 10).map((r) => `• ${stars(r.rating)} ${r.title ? `*${r.title}* ` : ''}${(r.text ?? '').slice(0, 200)} (${(r.reviewedAt ?? 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's' : ''} at ${max} stars or less\\n${lines.join('\\n')}`;\n});\nreturn [{ json: { text: `:iphone: *New app reviews to answer*\\n\\n${blocks.join('\\n\\n')}`, newReviews: reviews.length } }];" }, "id": "9a8a1659-8e72-51a3-ba59-6f995541bb51", "name": "Build alert", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.code", "typeVersion": 2, "position": [ 660, 120 ] }, { "parameters": { "select": "channel", "channelId": { "__rl": true, "value": "", "mode": "list" }, "text": "={{ $json.text }}", "otherOptions": {} }, "id": "e15e706a-8944-5f83-a630-2ae9430704ad", "name": "Post to Slack", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.slack", "typeVersion": 2.3, "position": [ 880, 120 ], "credentials": { "slackApi": { "id": "", "name": "Slack account" } } } ], "connections": { "Every day 8:00": { "main": [ [ { "node": "Settings", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] }, "Settings": { "main": [ [ { "node": "Get new reviews", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] }, "Get new reviews": { "main": [ [ { "node": "Build alert", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] }, "Build alert": { "main": [ [ { "node": "Post to Slack", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] } }, "pinData": {}, "settings": { "executionOrder": "v1" }, "meta": { "templateCredsSetupCompleted": false } }