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Daily Podcast Summary Email with AI

Original n8n title: Daily Podcast Summary

ByJay Hartley @jay on n8n.io

What this workflow does Downloads the daily top podcasts of a selected genre Summarizes the content of each podcast in a few paragraphs Sends the summaries and the direct link to each podcast in a formatted email

Cron / scheduled trigger★★★★☆ complexityAI-powered21 nodesGmailHTTP RequestOpenAI
AI & RAG Trigger: Cron / scheduled Nodes: 21 Complexity: ★★★★☆ AI nodes: yes Added:

This workflow corresponds to n8n.io template #2433 — we link there as the canonical source.

This workflow follows the Gmail → HTTP Request recipe pattern — see all workflows that pair these two integrations.

The workflow JSON

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{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "id": "49ab7596-665e-4a0f-bb8b-9dc04525ce88",
      "name": "Gmail",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.gmail",
      "position": [
        2340,
        1440
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "message": "={{ $json.html }}",
        "options": {},
        "subject": "Podcast Review"
      },
      "credentials": {
        "gmailOAuth2": {
          "name": "<your credential>"
        }
      },
      "typeVersion": 2.1
    },
    {
      "id": "40aa23f4-69d6-46e5-84a2-b46a64a3f0af",
      "name": "TaddyTopDaily",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "position": [
        1620,
        820
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "url": "https://api.taddy.org/",
        "method": "POST",
        "options": {},
        "sendBody": true,
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "bodyParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "query",
              "value": "=query {   getTopChartsByGenres(          limitPerPage:10,     filterByCountry:UNITED_STATES_OF_AMERICA,     taddyType:PODCASTEPISODE,      genres:PODCASTSERIES_{{ $json.genre }}){     topChartsId      podcastEpisodes{       uuid       name audioUrl      podcastSeries{         uuid         name       }     }   } }"
            }
          ]
        },
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "X-USER-ID"
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      "name": "Genre",
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      "position": [
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      ],
      "parameters": {
        "url": "https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions",
        "method": "POST",
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        "sendBody": true,
        "contentType": "multipart-form-data",
        "authentication": "predefinedCredentialType",
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      "position": [
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      ],
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        "options": {},
        "jsonOutput": "={\n\"podcast\": \"{{ $('TaddyTopDaily').item.json.data.getTopChartsByGenres.podcastEpisodes[$itemIndex].podcastSeries.name }}\",\n\"name\": \"{{ $('TaddyTopDaily').item.json.data.getTopChartsByGenres.podcastEpisodes[$itemIndex].name.replace(/\\\"/g,'\\\"') }}\",\n \"url\":\"{{ $('TaddyTopDaily').item.json.data.getTopChartsByGenres.podcastEpisodes[$itemIndex].audioUrl.replace(/\"/g,'') }}\",\n\"summary\":\"{{ $json.message.content.replace(/\\\\/g, '\\\\\\\\').replace(/\"/g, '\\\\\"').replace(/\\n/g, '<br/>').replace(/\\r/g, '\\\\r').replace(/\\t/g, '\\\\t') }}\"\n  \n}\n"
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      ],
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        "html": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n  <meta charset=\"UTF-8\" />\n</head>\n<body>\n  <table>\n    <tr> \n      {{ ['Podcast', 'Episode', 'Summary'].map(propname=>'<td><h4>'+propname+'</h4></td>').join('')  }}\n    </tr>\n    {{ $json.fields.map(ep=>{ return `<tr><td>${ep.podcast}</td><td><a href=\"${ep.url}\">${ep.name}</a></td><td>${ep.summary}</td><td></td></tr>`} ) }}\n  </table>\n</body>\n</html>\n\n<style>\ntr { \n     border: 1px solid #000;    \n     padding: 8px;   \n }\n.container {\n  background-color: #ffffff;\n  text-align: center;\n  padding: 16px;\n  border-radius: 8px;\n}\n\nh1 {\n  color: #ff6d5a;\n  font-size: 24px;\n  font-weight: bold;\n  padding: 8px;\n}\n\nh2 {\n  color: #909399;\n  font-size: 18px;\n  font-weight: bold;\n  padding: 8px;\n}\n</style>\n"
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        "content": "## Daily Podcast Summary\n### This workflow will summarize the content in the day's top podcasts for a certain genre, then send you the podcasts with summaries by email\n\n## Setup:\n 1. Create a free API key on Taddy here: https://taddy.org/signup/developers\n 2. Input your user number and API key into the `TaddyTopDaily` node in the header parameters X-USER-ID and X-API-KEY respectively.\n 3. Create access credentials for your Gmail as described here: https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-credentials. Use the credentials from your *client_secret.json* in the `Gmail` node.\n 4. In the `Genre` node, set the genre of podcasts you want a summary for. Valid values are: TECHNOLOGY, NEWS, ARTS, COMEDY, SPORTS, FICTION, etc. Look at api.taddy.org for the full list (they will be displayed in the help docs as PODCASTSERIES_TECHNOLOGY, PODCASTSERIES_NEWS, etc.)\n 5. Enter your email address in the `Gmail` node.\n 6. Change the schedule time for sending email from `Schedule` to whichever time you want to receive the email.\n \n\n## Test:\n- Link a `Test Workflow` node in place of the `Schedule` node.\n- Hit Test Workflow.\n- Check your email for the results."
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        "content": "### Whisper transcribes and Open AI summarizes the podcast"
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      "position": [
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      "parameters": {
        "width": 1189.7320416038633,
        "height": 249.2202456997519,
        "content": "### Get daily list of top podcasts (according to Apple charts) and download audio, then crop for OpenAI"
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        "content": "### Finally, send the email!"
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            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
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            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
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            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
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        [
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            "type": "main",
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    "Request Audio Crop": {
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            "node": "Get Download Link",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
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}

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About this workflow

What this workflow does Downloads the daily top podcasts of a selected genre Summarizes the content of each podcast in a few paragraphs Sends the summaries and the direct link to each podcast in a formatted email

Source: https://n8n.io/workflows/2433/ — original creator credit. Request a take-down →

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