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AI Agent Monitors News Events via Perplexity

Original n8n title: Automated Agentic News Event Monitoring with Perplexity.ai

ByDerek Cheung @derekcheungsa on n8n.io

The purpose of this workflow is to create a news reporter AI agent that automatically monitors specific news events and sends summary emails to the user.

Cron / scheduled trigger★★★★☆ complexityAI-powered7 nodesGmailOpenAI ChatChain LlmAgent
AI & RAG Trigger: Cron / scheduled Nodes: 7 Complexity: ★★★★☆ AI nodes: yes Added:

This workflow corresponds to n8n.io template #2458 — we link there as the canonical source.

This workflow follows the Agent → Chainllm recipe pattern — see all workflows that pair these two integrations.

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        ]
      ]
    },
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            "type": "main",
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          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  }
}
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About this workflow

The purpose of this workflow is to create a news reporter AI agent that automatically monitors specific news events and sends summary emails to the user.

Source: https://n8n.io/workflows/2458/ — original creator credit. Request a take-down →

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