{ "name": "AI Content Digest \u2192 Email", "nodes": [ { "id": "sticky-01-overview", "name": "Overview & Setup", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [ -780, 100 ], "parameters": { "color": 3, "width": 560, "height": 560, "content": "## \ud83d\udcf0 AI Content Digest \u2192 Email\n\nTurns your own list of RSS feeds into one clean, AI-curated HTML briefing in your inbox \u2014 on a schedule. Zero manual reading.\n\n### \ud83d\udc64 Who's it for\nFounders, marketers and researchers who want a personalised weekly briefing instead of doomscrolling feeds.\n\n### \u2699\ufe0f How it works\n1. **Schedule** fires weekly (Mon 08:00).\n2. **RSS Read** pulls every feed; articles are merged, deduped, filtered to the last 7 days and ranked.\n3. **OpenAI** groups them into 2\u20134 themes and writes a one-sentence summary per item as ready-to-send HTML.\n4. **Gmail** sends the branded email.\n\n### \ud83d\udd27 Set up (~5 min)\n- Add an **OpenAI** credential (default `gpt-4o-mini`) and a **Gmail OAuth2** credential.\n- Put your feeds in **Define Feed Sources** and the recipient in **Build Email HTML**.\n- Tune `LOOKBACK_DAYS` / `MAX_ARTICLES` to taste." }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "sticky-01-s1", "name": "Section 1 \u00b7 Sources", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [ -150, 100 ], "parameters": { "color": 7, "width": 520, "height": 360, "content": "### 1. Sources\nRuns weekly, then emits one item per feed. Edit the feed list in **Define Feed Sources**." }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "sticky-01-s2", "name": "Section 2 \u00b7 Fetch & Rank", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [ 510, 100 ], "parameters": { "color": 7, "width": 540, "height": 360, "content": "### 2. Fetch & Rank\nRSS Read runs once per feed and fans out into articles, which are merged, filtered to the last 7 days and ranked newest-first." }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "sticky-01-s3", "name": "Section 3 \u00b7 AI Curation", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [ 1190, 100 ], "parameters": { "color": 7, "width": 200, "height": 360, "content": "### 3. AI Curation\nOpenAI acts as an editor: groups articles into 2\u20134 themes and writes a one-sentence summary per item as HTML." }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "sticky-01-s4", "name": "Section 4 \u00b7 Send", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [ 1530, 100 ], "parameters": { "color": 7, "width": 540, "height": 360, "content": "### 4. Send\nThe AI HTML is wrapped in a branded email shell and sent via Gmail. Set the recipient in **Build Email HTML**." }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "schedule-trigger", "name": "Weekly Monday 08:00", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger", "position": [ -100, 220 ], "parameters": { "rule": { "interval": [ { "field": "weeks", "triggerAtDay": [ 1 ], "triggerAtHour": 8, "weeksInterval": 1, "triggerAtMinute": 0 } ] } }, "typeVersion": 1.3 }, { "id": "define-feeds", "name": "Define Feed Sources", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.code", "position": [ 220, 220 ], "parameters": { "mode": "runOnceForAllItems", "jsCode": "// \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n// EDIT ME: your RSS feed sources.\n// Add one entry per feed you want in your digest.\n// `source` is a friendly label shown in the email; `url` is the feed.\n// The next node (RSS Read) runs ONCE PER ITEM returned here.\n// \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\nconst FEEDS = [\n { source: 'TechCrunch', url: 'https://techcrunch.com/feed/' },\n { source: 'The Verge', url: 'https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml' },\n { source: 'Hacker News', url: 'https://hnrss.org/frontpage' },\n];\n\nreturn FEEDS.map((feed) => ({ json: feed }));" }, "typeVersion": 2 }, { "id": "rss-read", "name": "Read RSS Feed", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.rssFeedRead", "onError": "continueRegularOutput", "position": [ 560, 220 ], "parameters": { "url": "={{ $json.url }}", "options": {} }, "typeVersion": 1.2 }, { "id": "merge-rank", "name": "Merge, Filter & Rank Articles", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.code", "position": [ 900, 220 ], "parameters": { "mode": "runOnceForAllItems", "jsCode": "// Combine every article from every feed, keep only recent ones,\n// rank newest-first, take the top N, and build a compact text block\n// that the AI can summarize cheaply.\n\nconst LOOKBACK_DAYS = 7; // only keep articles newer than this\nconst MAX_ARTICLES = 15; // cap to control token cost\n\nconst cutoff = Date.now() - LOOKBACK_DAYS * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;\n\nconst stripHtml = (s) => String(s || '').replace(/<[^>]*>/g, ' ').replace(/\\s+/g, ' ').trim();\n\nconst seen = new Set();\nconst articles = [];\n\nfor (const item of $input.all()) {\n const a = item.json || {};\n const title = stripHtml(a.title);\n const link = a.link || a.guid || '';\n if (!title || !link) continue;\n\n // Dedupe by link, then by lowercased title\n const key = String(link).split('?')[0].toLowerCase();\n const titleKey = title.toLowerCase();\n if (seen.has(key) || seen.has(titleKey)) continue;\n seen.add(key);\n seen.add(titleKey);\n\n // Parse publish date; if missing/invalid, keep the article (treat as 'now')\n const raw = a.isoDate || a.pubDate || a.published || a.date;\n const ts = raw ? Date.parse(raw) : NaN;\n const ms = Number.isNaN(ts) ? Date.now() : ts;\n if (!Number.isNaN(ts) && ms < cutoff) continue;\n\n const source = a.source || a.creator || (a.meta && a.meta.title) || 'Source';\n const snippet = stripHtml(a.contentSnippet || a.content || a.summary || a.description).slice(0, 220);\n\n articles.push({ title, link, source, snippet, ms });\n}\n\narticles.sort((x, y) => y.ms - x.ms);\nconst top = articles.slice(0, MAX_ARTICLES);\n\nconst articlesText = top\n .map((a, i) => `${i + 1}. ${a.title} \u2014 ${a.source} \u2014 ${a.link}\\n ${a.snippet}`)\n .join('\\n\\n');\n\nreturn [{\n json: {\n articleCount: top.length,\n generatedFor: new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10),\n articlesText: articlesText || 'No new articles were found in the lookback window.',\n },\n}];" }, "typeVersion": 2 }, { "id": "openai-curate", "name": "Curate & Summarize Digest", "type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi", "position": [ 1240, 220 ], "parameters": { "modelId": { "__rl": true, "mode": "list", "value": "gpt-4o-mini", "cachedResultName": "gpt-4o-mini" }, "options": { "maxTokens": 1800, "temperature": 0.4, "instructions": "You are an expert newsletter editor. From the provided list of articles, produce a concise weekly digest as VALID HTML (a fragment, no / wrapper).\n\nRequirements:\n- Start with a single

one-line intro summarizing the week's theme.\n- Group the items into 2\u20134 thematic sections. Each section starts with an

heading.\n- Under each heading, output a