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n8n for software automation

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Author
Ian Blockmans
I make things and also virtual things

Intro
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n8n is a node based software automation tool. I mainly use this to run periodic task.

my first use case
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tidle is not as popular as spotify #

there is a playlist that i want on tidle that is only currently available on spotify. It gets updated about every week. Doing this myself manually is a lot of work. Automating this is not. The spotify_to_tidal project already solves the bulk of the issue. Now to automate, so i installed it to my server linux os and set n8n to run the spotify_to_tidal command i want via ssh every week. Now I can use tidle like nothing has changed.

Docker compose
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n8n:
  restart: always
  image: docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n
  environment:
    - EXECUTIONS_MODE=regular
    - N8N_ENCRYPTION_KEY=${ENCRYPTION_KEY}
    - N8N_ENFORCE_SETTINGS_FILE_PERMISSIONS=true
    - N8N_HOST=${DOMAIN_NAME}
    - N8N_PORT=5678
    - N8N_PROTOCOL=https
    - N8N_RUNNERS_ENABLED=true
    - NODE_ENV=production
    - WEBHOOK_URL=https://${DOMAIN_NAME}/
    - GENERIC_TIMEZONE=${GENERIC_TIMEZONE}
    - TZ=${GENERIC_TIMEZONE}
  volumes:
    - /nfs/configs/n8n/config:/home/node/.n8n
    - /nfs/configs/spotify_to_tidal:/home/node/spotify_to_tidal
  ports:
    - 5678:5678
  labels:
    traefik.enable: "true"
    traefik.http.routers.n8n80.entrypoints: web
    traefik.http.routers.n8n80.rule: Host(`n8n.ian.lan`)
    traefik.http.routers.n8n80.tls: "false"
    traefik.http.routers.n8n80.middlewares: n8n-http
    traefik.http.middlewares.n8n-http.redirectscheme.scheme: https
    traefik.http.routers.n8n.entrypoints: websecure
    traefik.http.routers.n8n.rule: Host(`n8n.ian.lan`)
    traefik.http.routers.n8n.tls: "true"
    traefik.http.services.n8n.loadbalancer.server.port: "5678"

.env


POSTGRES_USER=n8n
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=REPALCE
POSTGRES_DB=n8n

POSTGRES_NON_ROOT_USER=n8n
POSTGRES_NON_ROOT_PASSWORD=REPALCE

ENCRYPTION_KEY=REPALCE

DOMAIN_NAME=n8n.ian.lan

GENERIC_TIMEZONE=Europe/Brussels

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