This workflow follows the Chainllm → Emailsend recipe pattern — see all workflows that pair these two integrations.
The workflow JSON
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{
"name": "github-trending",
"nodes": [
{
"parameters": {},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger",
"typeVersion": 1,
"position": [
-416,
-256
],
"id": "b07134c8-89f6-490b-b0ad-f012b5c4dfbb",
"name": "When clicking \u2018Execute workflow\u2019"
},
{
"parameters": {
"content": "* Specify programming language or leave it empty.\n* Specify top N (default 3)\n* **Specify mail recipient**",
"height": 304,
"width": 192
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
"typeVersion": 1,
"position": [
-256,
-208
],
"id": "320357dd-e58c-4e89-bf66-f7c7138fca27",
"name": "Sticky Note"
},
{
"parameters": {
"rule": {
"interval": [
{
"triggerAtHour": 9
}
]
}
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger",
"typeVersion": 1.2,
"position": [
-416,
-48
],
"id": "cf9c424d-9045-403e-86ab-0820ad9ad2bd",
"name": "Schedule Trigger"
},
{
"parameters": {
"url": "=https://api.github.com/repos/{{ $json.name }}/readme",
"authentication": "predefinedCredentialType",
"nodeCredentialType": "githubApi",
"sendHeaders": true,
"headerParameters": {
"parameters": [
{
"name": "Accept",
"value": "application/vnd.github.raw+json"
},
{
"name": "X-GitHub-Api-Version",
"value": "2022-11-28"
}
]
},
"options": {}
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
"typeVersion": 4.2,
"position": [
-416,
288
],
"id": "78190c1a-eed3-464c-b2b2-61d672f5be1f",
"name": "GitHub Repo Readme",
"credentials": {
"githubApi": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
}
},
{
"parameters": {
"url": "=https://github.com/trending{{ $json.language === \"\" ? \"\" : \"/\" + $json.language }}",
"sendHeaders": true,
"headerParameters": {
"parameters": [
{
"name": "User-Agent",
"value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36"
}
]
},
"options": {}
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
"typeVersion": 4.2,
"position": [
192,
-48
],
"id": "0714dd4a-fe61-421a-afe5-1c96030c1f33",
"name": "GitHub Trending"
},
{
"parameters": {
"language": "python",
"pythonCode": "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup\n\nsoup = BeautifulSoup(_json.data, 'html.parser')\n\nrepositories_data = []\n# Find all articles representing repositories\n# GitHub's trending page uses <article> tags with specific classes\nrepo_articles = soup.find_all(\"article\", class_=\"Box-row\")\n\nfor rank, article in enumerate(repo_articles):\n # Extract repository name\n title_tag = article.find(\"h2\", class_=\"h3\")\n if title_tag and title_tag.a:\n full_name = title_tag.a.text.strip().replace('\\n', '').replace(' ', '')\n # Format: \"owner/repo-name\"\n repo_name_parts = full_name.split('/')\n if len(repo_name_parts) >= 2:\n owner = repo_name_parts[0]\n repo_name = repo_name_parts[1]\n name = f\"{owner.strip()}/{repo_name.strip()}\"\n else:\n name = full_name.strip() # Fallback if format isn't as expected\n else:\n continue # Skip if name is not found\n\n # Extract description\n description_tag = article.find(\"p\", class_=\"col-9\")\n description = description_tag.text.strip() if description_tag else ''\n\n # Extract language\n language_tag = article.find(\"span\", itemprop=\"programmingLanguage\")\n language = language_tag.text.strip() if language_tag else ''\n\n # Extract stars and forks\n # Look for <a> tags with specific href patterns\n star_link = article.find(\"a\", href=f\"/{name}/stargazers\")\n fork_link = article.find(\"a\", href=f\"/{name}/forks\")\n stars = int(star_link.text.strip().replace(',', '')) if star_link else 0\n forks = int(fork_link.text.strip().replace(',', '')) if fork_link else 0\n\n # Extract \"Built by\" contributors (optional)\n built_by_avatars = []\n built_by_container = article.find(\"span\", class_=\"d-inline-block mr-3\")\n if built_by_container:\n for img_tag in built_by_container.find_all(\"img\", class_=\"avatar-user\"):\n alt_text = img_tag.get('alt')\n if alt_text and alt_text.startswith('@'):\n built_by_avatars.append(alt_text[1:]) # Remove '@' prefix\n\n today_stars = 0\n today_stars_tag = article.find(\"span\", class_=\"d-inline-block float-sm-right\")\n if today_stars_tag:\n today_stars_text = today_stars_tag.text.strip().split()[0] # Get the first part of the text\n if 'k' in today_stars_text:\n today_stars = int(float(today_stars_text.replace('k', '')) * 1000)\n else:\n today_stars = int(today_stars_text.replace(',', ''))\n\n repo_data = {\n \"rank\": rank,\n \"name\": name,\n \"description\": description,\n \"language\": language,\n \"stars\": stars,\n \"forks\": forks,\n \"today_stars\": today_stars,\n \"built_by\": built_by_avatars,\n }\n repositories_data.append(repo_data)\n\nreturn repositories_data"
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
"typeVersion": 2,
"position": [
400,
-48
],
"id": "f21b06e7-7b07-495c-95aa-c7c55d0f19e0",
"name": "Extract Trending List"
},
{
"parameters": {
"promptType": "define",
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"batching": {}
},
"type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainLlm",
"typeVersion": 1.7,
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-208,
288
],
"id": "28029161-7d6f-4bf1-ba37-5c66281ed332",
"name": "GitHub Repo Summarize"
},
{
"parameters": {
"options": {}
},
"type": "@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatGoogleGemini",
"typeVersion": 1,
"position": [
-208,
480
],
"id": "a0ff40b7-38fa-41ee-9fe6-36b3d9f5e3c9",
"name": "Google Gemini Chat Model",
"credentials": {
"googlePalmApi": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
}
},
{
"parameters": {
"jsCode": "return {\n \"content\": $input.all().map(item => item.json.text).join('\\n\\n')\n}"
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
"typeVersion": 2,
"position": [
192,
288
],
"id": "a7e28c63-4ea4-429a-89a5-bf6e2adbaadb",
"name": "Merge Markdown"
},
{
"parameters": {
"mode": "markdownToHtml",
"markdown": "={{ $json.content }}",
"options": {}
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.markdown",
"typeVersion": 1,
"position": [
400,
288
],
"id": "b9113dba-9441-4896-b813-025f07eb3dd6",
"name": "Markdown"
},
{
"parameters": {
"fromEmail": "no-reply@tomo.dev",
"toEmail": "={{ $('Set Variables').first().json.recipients }}",
"subject": "=GitHub Daily Trending #{{ $today.toISODate() }}",
"html": "={{ $json.data }}",
"options": {}
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.emailSend",
"typeVersion": 2.1,
"position": [
608,
288
],
"id": "4e2173f4-5359-48e4-a07c-c88c05a71a80",
"name": "Send email",
"credentials": {
"smtp": {
"name": "<your credential>"
}
}
},
{
"parameters": {
"assignments": {
"assignments": [
{
"id": "3fc96359-e4d9-4280-b209-1b7aaaffd9a9",
"name": "language",
"value": "",
"type": "string"
},
{
"id": "d41d647d-2eee-4210-b246-f7f47186685a",
"name": "topN",
"value": 3,
"type": "number"
},
{
"id": "22eb48a8-5f2b-40f4-85b7-342ffdc31e66",
"name": "recipients",
"value": "",
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"options": {}
},
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"typeVersion": 3.4,
"position": [
-208,
-48
],
"id": "c040d611-8b78-4005-a4de-b290f6b884d0",
"name": "Set Variables",
"notesInFlow": false
},
{
"parameters": {
"errorMessage": "Please specify mail recipients"
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.stopAndError",
"typeVersion": 1,
"position": [
192,
-240
],
"id": "3ef03fe2-1867-4d91-b16f-980d7581d4e0",
"name": "Stop and Error"
},
{
"parameters": {
"conditions": {
"options": {
"caseSensitive": true,
"leftValue": "",
"typeValidation": "strict",
"version": 2
},
"conditions": [
{
"id": "8fbbdf83-e290-4974-8f7d-e47ed268a2f7",
"leftValue": "={{ $json.recipients }}",
"rightValue": "",
"operator": {
"type": "string",
"operation": "empty",
"singleValue": true
}
}
],
"combinator": "and"
},
"options": {}
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.if",
"typeVersion": 2.2,
"position": [
0,
-48
],
"id": "ccef8f52-3228-44b2-820d-058ea38249b1",
"name": "If recipients Empty?"
},
{
"parameters": {
"maxItems": "={{ $('Set Variables').item.json.topN }}"
},
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.limit",
"typeVersion": 1,
"position": [
608,
-48
],
"id": "ea864cb1-f20d-4644-931a-bb1ee873803e",
"name": "Limit Top N"
}
],
"connections": {
"When clicking \u2018Execute workflow\u2019": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Set Variables",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Schedule Trigger": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Set Variables",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"GitHub Trending": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Extract Trending List",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Extract Trending List": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Limit Top N",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"GitHub Repo Readme": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "GitHub Repo Summarize",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Google Gemini Chat Model": {
"ai_languageModel": [
[
{
"node": "GitHub Repo Summarize",
"type": "ai_languageModel",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"GitHub Repo Summarize": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Merge Markdown",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Merge Markdown": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Markdown",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Markdown": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Send email",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Set Variables": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "If recipients Empty?",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"If recipients Empty?": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "Stop and Error",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
],
[
{
"node": "GitHub Trending",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
},
"Limit Top N": {
"main": [
[
{
"node": "GitHub Repo Readme",
"type": "main",
"index": 0
}
]
]
}
},
"active": false,
"settings": {
"executionOrder": "v1",
"callerPolicy": "workflowsFromSameOwner",
"errorWorkflow": "knYWO6K2TJ83te3L"
},
"versionId": "d7eba448-8323-4914-b680-b10aea2c533d",
"meta": {
"templateCredsSetupCompleted": true
},
"id": "L791u8q7du3EUAl7",
"tags": []
}
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About this workflow
github-trending. Uses httpRequest, chainLlm, lmChatGoogleGemini, emailSend. Event-driven trigger; 15 nodes.
Source: https://github.com/datawhalechina/handy-n8n/blob/d0d1f6dbb65815de8b1433dd671482f25e76122b/workflows/c06/github-trending.json — original creator credit. Request a take-down →
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