N8N for Beginners: Looping over Items

n8n template #2896

Summary

N8N for Beginners: Looping Over Items Description This workflow is designed for n8n beginners to understand how n8n handles looping (iteration) over multiple items. It highlights two key behaviors: Built-In Looping: By default, most n8n nodes iterate over each item in an input array. Explicit Looping: The Loop Over Items node allows controlled iteration, enabling custom batch processing and multi-step workflows. This workflow demonstrates the difference between processing an unsplit array of strings (single item) vs. a split array (multiple items). Setup 1. Input Data To begin, paste the following JSON into the Manual Trigger node: { "urls": [ "https://www.reddit.com", "https://www.n8n.io/",

How to set it up

Open template #2896 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
No app accounts to connect: every node is built into n8n.
Click Execute workflow and step through each node's output to confirm the data looks right.
Toggle the workflow to Active so its trigger runs on its own.

Hand off to your agent

Prompt

Help me set up the n8n workflow "N8N for Beginners: Looping over Items" (https://n8n.io/workflows/2896). It uses: Code. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.

Paste into Claude Code and it will do the rest.

Apps and nodes

Code

Questions

Yes. Dominik Baranowski published it free on n8n.io, and it has 39K views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

None. All 1 nodes are built into n8n.

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