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Welcome to Nimrod

Nimrod is a lead generation bot that helps you find the emails of people you want to reach out to.

You hand Nimrod a google spreadsheet with the details of your prospects, and it fills in their emails from several tools for you.

A more detailed explanation of Nimrod processes and how it works can be found here: http://www.scrappycabin.com/blogs/the-nimrod-recipe

In short, Nimrod turns this: Prospect spreadsheet

Into this: Completed prospect spreadsheet

##How does Nimrod do his job?

  • Nimrod starts at the spreadsheet, it signs into your google drive and opens the spreadsheet you’ve specified.
  • For every prospect in your spreadsheet, it gets their name and domain.
  • It visits several tools one-by-one, on your behalf, enters the name and domain in the tool and fills the spreadsheet with the email suggestion returned.
  • It continues until it has exhausted all the prospects in the spreadsheet.
  • It hands you a completed spreadsheet.
  • It stops and it’s eager to get more work.

Nimrod can work 24hrs a day every day, it doesn’t complain, it doesn’t make mistakes, and it doesn’t ask you for money.

Find out more about how Nimrod works here: http://www.scrappycabin.com/blogs/the-nimrod-recipe

Setup for non-techies

Follow the guide here.

Setup

  • To get started, get a list of prospects in a google spreadsheet. Click here to get a sample template. It’s important that you do not change the format of the columns
  • Clone this repo in a local folder

If you are using mac, you will already have ruby pre-installed on your machine

  • Run these commands in terminal:
gem install google_drive
brew install phantomjs
gem install watir-webdriver
  • If you don't have Homebrew installed, run:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

If you are using windows:

Now that the setup is done,

  • Navigate to the Nimrod folder and open it in your favourite code editor
  • Fill in your details in @your_config
  • The google spreadsheet keys can be found in the URL. It’s the alphanumeric keys between d/ and /edit in the URL
  • Open the gdrive_config.json file and enter your google client_id & client_secret. Follow this guide to get them
  • You’re good to go. Run:
ruby Nimrod.rb &

Would you like a web version of Nimrod?

It’ll look something like this: Prospect spreadsheet

Find out how to get it for free here.

Report a bug & Contact

If you'd like to report a bug, or if you have any questions or feedback, get in touch via [email protected].
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