Monitor competitor websites daily with Firecrawl, Gemini, and Zalo Bot alerts

Description

Who is this for?
Vietnamese businesses, marketers, and product managers who need daily competitive intelligence about competitor websites without manually checking them every day.

How it works
This template combines two custom community nodes (Firecrawl + Zalo Bot) to automate competitor monitoring with AI-powered Vietnamese summaries.

Schedule Trigger runs daily at 9 AM
Set Configuration holds competitor URL, brand name, and Zalo Chat ID
Firecrawl Scrape fetches the competitor page (handles JS, anti-bot, content cleaning)
OpenAI Summarize generates a concise Vietnamese summary of key updates
Format Alert prepares the notification text with timestamp and source
Zalo Bot Send delivers the alert via Zalo Bot Platform

Why this combination is unique
Firecrawl handles modern JavaScript-heavy websites that traditional scrapers fail on
Zalo Bot is the dominant messaging platform in Vietnam (75M+ users)
Vietnamese AI summarization removes the language barrier for local teams
No other template combines web scraping with Zalo Bot alerts

Set up steps
Install community nodes n8n-nodes-firecrawl-v2 and n8n-nodes-zalo-platform
Get Firecrawl API key from firecrawl.dev (or use self-hosted)
Create a Zalo Bot via Zalo Bot Manager in the Zalo app to get your Bot Token
Add OpenAI credentials (or swap with Claude/Gemini)
Update Set Configuration with competitor URL and Zalo Chat ID
Activate and let it run daily

Requirements
Self-hosted n8n (community nodes cannot be installed on n8n Cloud)
Firecrawl API key (Cloud or self-hosted)
Zalo Bot Token from Zalo Bot Manager
OpenAI API key

How to customize
Loop over multiple competitors
Replace OpenAI with Claude, Gemini, or local LLM
Save history to Google Sheets to track changes
Add diff detection to alert only on actual changes
Send to multiple Zalo recipients or groups