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Automate nodes

The Automate nodes start workflows on their own, bring in web content, write text with AI, run nodes once per item, route runs and keep large canvases tidy.

The Automate tab of the node picker holds the nodes that make a workflow run by itself and handle its data. It covers triggers that start runs, nodes that get content from the web, text and AI text nodes, list and batching tools, logic, sub-workflows and canvas tools. Most of these nodes are free: they organize the work, and the image, video and audio nodes that they drive do the paid generation.

What the Automate tab covers

Triggers

Triggers start a workflow without anyone clicking Run. Schedule Trigger runs it on a timetable, Webhook Trigger when another system sends an HTTP POST request, and Telegram Trigger when your Telegram bot receives a message. Triggers are free. A trigger that is connected to nodes runs only its branch, and a trigger that is connected to nothing runs the whole workflow.

Get Content

These nodes bring content from outside Nodaro into a workflow. Web Scrape fetches Google Search results, web pages, RSS and Atom feeds and TikTok posts. Video URL turns a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or X link into a video file. Telegram Channel Feed reads the new posts of a public Telegram channel. The older RSS Feed node is retired, and Web Scrape reads feeds now.

Text

Text nodes write and shape text. Text holds text that you type, such as a prompt. Combine Text joins several texts into one, and Split Text cuts one text into a list of items. Prompt generates, rewrites or summarizes text with an AI language model, such as Gemini, Claude, GPT or Grok.

Lists & Batching

These nodes make a workflow run once per item and gather the results. List holds rows of values, and the node after it runs once per row. Collect gathers the outputs of several nodes into one set. Selector, Filter List, Sort List, Remove Duplicates and Merge Lists pick, filter, sort, clean and combine lists. Choose Best turns several results into one, for example with an AI judge.

Logic & Data

Router sends a run down one or more named routes. Extract Field pulls one field out of JSON data, such as the title of every search result from Web Scrape.

Workflows

Sub-Workflow runs another workflow as a single node, and Component embeds a published component. Sub-Workflow Input and Sub-Workflow Output mark where a reusable workflow receives and returns its values.

Canvas

Group frames nodes that belong together. Teleport Send and Teleport Receive pass a value across the canvas without a visible connection, and Sticky Note adds notes for you and your team.

A typical automation

promptpromptSchedule TriggerDaily 9amWeb ScrapeGoogle SearchPromptWrite 3 image promptsGenerate ImageRuns once per prompt
Every morning the Schedule Trigger runs the whole workflow: Web Scrape searches the news, a Prompt node writes three image prompts, and Generate Image runs once for each.

Which node do I need?

I want toUse
Run a workflow every hour, day or weekSchedule Trigger
Start a workflow from another app or from my own codeWebhook Trigger
Start a workflow when someone writes to my Telegram botTelegram Trigger
Get search results, a web page, a news feed or TikTok postsWeb Scrape
Use a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or X videoVideo URL
Follow the new posts of a public Telegram channelTelegram Channel Feed
Write a prompt or any other textText
Join several texts into oneCombine Text
Run a node once for each line of a textSplit Text
Generate, rewrite or summarize text with AIPrompt
Run a node once for each row of valuesList
Gather the results of several nodes into one setCollect
Keep, sort or pick some items of a listFilter List, Sort List, Selector
Keep the best of several resultsChoose Best
Send a run down different pathsRouter
Take one field out of JSON dataExtract Field
Reuse a workflow inside another workflowSub-Workflow, Component
Keep a large canvas tidyGroup, Teleport Send, Sticky Note

Every Automate node

Triggers

Get Content

Text

Lists & Batching

Logic & Data

Workflows

Canvas

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