n8n Webhook Recipes: 10 Automations You Need

What Are Webhooks?

Webhooks are HTTP callbacks — when something happens in one app, it instantly notifies another. They're the backbone of real-time automation.

Recipe 1: Typeform → CRM + Slack

When someone fills out your form:

1. Create contact in CRM
2. Send Slack notification
3. Add to email sequence

Recipe 2: Stripe Payment → Onboarding

New payment received:

1. Create account in your app
2. Send welcome email
3. Add to onboarding sequence
4. Notify your team

Recipe 3: GitHub → Project Management

New issue created:

1. Create task in Linear/Notion
2. Assign based on labels
3. Notify the team channel

Recipe 4: Calendar → Prep Automation

Meeting booked:

1. Research the attendee's company
2. Pull recent LinkedIn posts
3. Generate talking points
4. Send prep doc 30 min before

Recipe 5: Email Reply → CRM Update

When a prospect replies:

1. Parse sentiment (positive/negative)
2. Update deal stage
3. Alert the account owner
4. Log the interaction

Recipe 6: Website Visit → Lead Score

High-intent page visited:

1. Identify the visitor
2. Check against your lead database
3. Boost their lead score
4. Trigger a follow-up if score > threshold

Recipe 7: Social Mention → Response

Brand mentioned on social:

1. Capture the mention
2. Analyze sentiment
3. Draft a response
4. Queue for review

Recipe 8: Error Alert → Incident Response

App error detected:

1. Log to error tracking
2. Alert on-call engineer
3. Create incident ticket
4. Start status page update

Recipe 9: Content Published → Distribution

New blog post live:

1. Post to social channels
2. Send to newsletter subscribers
3. Notify community
4. Update sitemap

Recipe 10: Daily Report → Dashboard

Every morning at 8 AM:

1. Pull yesterday's metrics
2. Compare against goals
3. Generate summary
4. Send to Slack/email

Getting Started

Import any of these recipes into n8n and customize the connections for your stack.