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The workflow JSON
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{
"name": "AI News and weekly digest",
"nodes": [
{
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"triggerAtHour": 9
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"onError": "continueErrorOutput"
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"parameters": {
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"value": "gpt-4o-mini",
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{
"role": "system",
"content": "You are a competitive intelligence analyst for an AI company. You read raw\narticle dumps from competitor blogs and news feeds and distill them into\nconcise, decision useful takeaways for a weekly digest. You always:\n1. Surface only genuinely new product, research, or strategy signals; skip\n fluff, event recaps with no real news, or near duplicate stories.\n2. Write in plain, specific language, no marketing fluff.\n3. Attribute every takeaway to its source article link(s).\n4. Return ONLY valid JSON matching the exact schema given; no commentary,\n no markdown code fences, no extra text before or after the JSON."
},
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"content": "=Below are raw articles (title, source, link, snippet) collected this week\nfrom competitor RSS feeds. Identify the 3 to 5 most important takeaways\nacross ALL of them combined; compare and connect across sources where\nrelevant, don't just summarize each article one by one.\n\nReturn ONLY a JSON array where each element has this exact shape:\n{\n \"headline\": \"short punchy headline, max 12 words\",\n \"summary\": \"2 to 3 sentence explanation of why this matters\",\n \"sources\": [\"<url1>\", \"<url2>\"]\n}\n\nArticles:\n{{ $json.text }}"
}
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"id": "08d32188-129f-4ac5-8e3a-561dc739bb27",
"name": "Message a model",
"credentials": {
"openAiApi": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
}
},
{
"parameters": {
"sendTo": "prasanthprg25@gmail.com",
"subject": "=Weekly Competitor Digest - {{ $now.format('yyyy-MM-dd') }}",
"message": "={{ $json.digestHtml }}",
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About this workflow
AI News and weekly digest. Uses rssFeedRead, httpRequest, openAi, gmail. Scheduled trigger; 15 nodes.
Source: https://gist.github.com/Prasanth-Gururaj/129acbf720d0cbe6a9f0850d9f675291 — original creator credit. Request a take-down →
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