PEEKALINK n8n INTEGRATION: AUTOMATE PEEKALINK WITH N8N

The Preview action is your go-to tool for generating rich link previews from any URL. When triggered, Peekalink fetches the target page and extracts valuable metadata including the page title, description, featured image, favicon, and more—all structured and ready to use in your workflow.

This action is particularly powerful for content automation. Instead of manually visiting each link to grab preview information, you can process hundreds of URLs automatically and use that data to populate social posts, enrich databases, or build custom link cards.

Key parameters:

• Credential to connect with: This dropdown field is required and lets you select your Peekalink account credentials. If you haven't set up credentials yet, you can create them directly from this dropdown.
• Operation: Set to "Preview" to generate a link preview. This parameter is required and determines what Peekalink will do with your URL.
• URL: This required text field is where you enter the web address you want to preview. You can hardcode a URL or dynamically pass one from a previous node in your workflow.

Typical use cases:

• Generate preview cards for links shared in Slack or Discord channels, then post enriched versions with images and descriptions
• Build a content curation pipeline that automatically extracts metadata from submitted articles
• Create a database of website information by processing a list of competitor URLs
• Enrich email campaigns with dynamic link previews instead of plain URLs

When to use it: Use the Preview action whenever you need structured metadata from a URL—whether for display purposes, data enrichment, or content validation before publishing.

The Is Available action checks whether a given URL is accessible and responding. This simple but essential operation returns availability status, helping you validate links before using them in your workflows or alerting you when critical URLs go down.

Link rot is a real problem—URLs break, domains expire, and pages get removed. This action lets you proactively detect these issues instead of discovering them when users complain or content looks broken.

Key parameters:

• Credential to connect with: A required dropdown to select your authenticated Peekalink account. This ensures the API call is properly authorized.
• Operation: Set to "Is Available" to check URL accessibility. This required parameter tells Peekalink to perform an availability check rather than generating a preview.
• URL: The required text input where you specify which web address to check. This can be static or dynamically populated from your workflow data.

Typical use cases:

• Validate all outbound links in your CMS before publishing new content
• Build a daily health check that monitors your important external resources
• Filter out broken links from imported data before processing further
• Create alerts when partner or affiliate links become unavailable

When to use it: Use Is Available whenever you need to verify that a URL is working—before sharing it, after importing a batch of links, or as part of a regular monitoring routine.