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Draft weekly newsletter digests from RSS feeds with OpenAI

Started by a clock, and works across Gmail and RSS. 10 steps: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium

10 stepsMedium: a working afternoon
0Branches: places the flow splits
0Loops or waits
2Services it connects to

The flow

Starts it 1Logic 4Service 5

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

  1. 1When Monday at 5amSchedule triggerStarts it
  2. 2Define Source FeedsCodeLogic
  3. 3Fetch RSS FeedsRss Feed ReadService
  4. 4Filter Recent StoriesCodeLogic
  5. 5Create AI PromptCodeLogic
  6. 6Post to OpenAI APIHttp RequestService
  7. 7Build Email HTMLCodeLogic
  8. 8Post to Kit APIHttp RequestService
  9. 9Send Draft via GmailGmailService
  10. 10Notify SlackHttp RequestService

How it's built

Starts on
A clock
Steps
10
Size
Medium: a working afternoon
Connects to
Gmail, RSS
Model
None. This is plumbing, not judgement

Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own Gmail and RSS accounts. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on a clock.

Does it use AI?

No. Every step is fixed logic or a call to a service, so it does the same thing every time.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 10 steps is enough that you should read each one before running it.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

Before you run it

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 10 steps before you point it at anything that matters.