N8N Foundational Concepts (AI Agents, JSON, Logic)

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Welcome to my N8N course, "N8N For Everyone". In today's video, we're going to dive deep into the fundamental N8N concepts you need to understand to build robust flows and minimize the amount of time you spend debugging. We'll cover expressions, JSON, variables, types, how to map fields, how N8N represents data, foundational nodes (like "if", "filter", "merge", etc), and we'll briefly touch on AI agents too.

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Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction to N8N Nodes
00:01:31 Workflow Creation with AI
00:02:46 Understanding Fields in N8N
00:09:35 Exploring Fixed and Expression Fields
00:12:26 Dynamic Data in N8N
00:23:23 Sending Data to AI
00:34:16 Introduction to JSON
00:35:16 Deep Dive into JavaScript Object Notation
00:56:04 Foundational Nodes Overview
00:59:52 Extracting Website Text
01:03:27 HTTP Request Module Overview
01:03:55 Introduction to Webhooks
01:06:07 Receiving Data with Webhooks
01:10:11 Transitioning to Production
01:10:59 Introduction to OpenAI Nodes
01:14:01 Implementing AI Agents
01:18:00 Connecting AI to Tools
01:19:19 Modifying Flow with Nodes
01:23:46 Implementing Conditional Logic
01:25:32 Using the Filter Node
01:26:27 Merging Data Streams
01:33:55 Looping Through Data Items
01:39:13 Building a Business Workflow
01:41:22 Analyzing Journalist Inquiries
01:49:05 Structuring AI Prompts
01:56:51 Filtering Relevant Emails
01:59:11 Recap and Conclusion