Automate URL Collection & Notion Integration with n8n Webhook

1. Opening Problem Statement

Meet Sarah, a content manager overwhelmed by daily link submissions from her team. Manually copying URLs, verifying their content, and entering them into Notion wastes Sarah hours each week and increases the chance of errors or missing important links. Her team often sends web links via Discord, and organizing them into a centralized, searchable database becomes a tedious, error-prone chore.

Sarah’s situation is common in digital teams that rely on collaborative tools but lack automation for simple yet repetitive data entry tasks. Every minute spent manually managing links is a minute not spent creating impactful content. Sarah needs a reliable, automated way to capture URLs, validate them, extract useful metadata like titles, and track the progress seamlessly—all without lifting a finger.

This is the specific problem this n8n workflow solves by intercepting incoming URLs, confirming their validity, automatically fetching the website title, logging everything into Notion, and alerting the team in Discord.

2. What This Automation Does

When this workflow runs, it transforms chaotic link sharing into seamless, automated data collection with clear notifications. In detail, it:

• Receives URLs via a customizable webhook POST request which means any system or form can push links directly into automation.
• Checks if the incoming data type is valid (specifically type equal to 1) to filter out irrelevant events.
• Fetches the webpage HTML content from the submitted URL to gather metadata.
• Extracts the webpage title using an HTML Extract node configured with CSS selectors specific to the