Building an Automated Influencer Outreach Pipeline in Node.js

Finding influencers is easy. Getting their contact information and actually reaching out to them is the hard part. Most marketers spend hours manually scrolling through Instagram and TikTok bios, looking for an email address, copying it into a spreadsheet, and sending generic templates. As developers, we can automate this entire workflow. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build a Node.js pipeline that: Scrapes a list of influencers based on a hashtag. Uses Regex to extract email addresses from their bios. Filters out agencies and management companies. Generates a CSV ready for your cold email tool (like Lemlist or Instantly). The Tech Stack Node.js SociaVault API (for scraping Instagram/TikTok without getting blocked) json2csv (for exporting the data) Step 1: Setup npm init -y npm install axios dotenv json2csv Create your .env file: SOCIAVAULT_API_KEY=your_api_key_here Step 2: Fetching Influencers We'll use SociaVault to search for recent posts under a specific hashtag (e.g., #ski