Monitor News Risk with Google News, Groq (llama 3), and Gmail Alerts

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        "content": "## Summary (News Based Risk Alerts)\n\nThe workflow functions as a proactive monitoring system that separates \"market noise\" from \"market risk.\" Instead of flooding your inbox with every news mention, it uses Llama 3 (via Groq) to act as a virtual risk analyst, categorizing news as Low, Medium or High risk and only alerting you when the risk is significant (Medium or High).\n\n## How It Works\n\n* **1. Grabs Keywords:** It reads a list of companies or topics you want to track from a Google Sheet.\n* **2. Scans the News:** It searches Google News to find the newest articles about those specific topics.\n* **3. AI Analyzes Risk:** It has an AI read the headlines to decide if the news is a \"Low\", \"Medium\" or \"High\" risk.\n* **4. Emails the Important Stuff:** It ignores the \"Low\" risk news, gathers up the \"Medium\" and \"High\" risk alerts and sends them straight to your email.\n\n## Set Up Steps\nTo get this workflow operational, follow these steps:\n\n- Spreadsheet Preparation\nCreate a Google Sheet named Risk Keywords.\nIn the first column (Sheet1), add a header named Keyword. List the companies, tickers or industry terms you want to monitor (e.g., \"Tesla\", \"Nvidia\", \"Inflation Rate\").\n\n- API & Credentials Configuration\nn8n Credentials: Ensure your n8n instance has valid credentials for Google Sheets and Gmail.\nGroq API: Obtain an API key from Groq. In the \"Llama 3 (via Groq)\" node, enter your API key to enable the AI analysis.\n\n- Node Adjustments\nFetch Risk Keywords: Open this node and select your specific \"Risk Keywords\" spreadsheet from the dropdown.\nGmail Alert Dispatcher: Replace RECIPIENT_EMAIL_HERE with the email address where you want to receive the alerts."
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        "jsCode": "// Grab the bundled data array from the incoming item\nlet articles = $input.first().json.data; \n\n// Start building our clean email/message text\nlet alertMessage = \"Business Risk Alert \\n\\n\";\n\n// Loop through each bundled article\nfor (let item of articles) {\n    try {\n        // Unpack the text string back into a real JSON object\n        let aiData = JSON.parse(item.output);\n        \n        // Extract our specific pieces of information\n        let riskLevel = aiData.Risk_Level;\n        let riskAnalysis = aiData.Reason;\n        \n        // Add them neatly to our final message\n        alertMessage += `Risk Level: ${riskLevel}\\n`;\n        alertMessage += `Risk Analysis: ${riskAnalysis}\\n`;\n        alertMessage += `-----------------------------------\\n\\n`;\n        \n    } catch (error) {\n        // Just in case the AI ever formats the text weirdly and it can't be parsed\n        alertMessage += `Error reading AI output for one article.\\n\\n`;\n    }\n}\n\n// Output the final, beautifully formatted text message\nreturn [{ \n    json: { \n        formatted_message: alertMessage \n    } \n}];"
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        "subject": " High Risk Alert Triggered",
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        "content": "## News Scraping & Rate Limiting\nScans Google News RSS feeds for real-time updates. A Limit node ensures we only analyze the most relevant recent news, while a Wait node protects the AI API from being overwhelmed by too many simultaneous requests."
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        "content": "## Fetch & Loop Keywords\n\nThis section connects to a Google Sheet (Risk Keywords) to retrieve the list of companies or topics to monitor. It uses a Split-in-Batches approach to ensure every keyword is processed individually."
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        "content": "## Final Formatting & Data Prep\n- Uses a JavaScript snippet to loop through the gathered articles and parse the AI's JSON response. It extracts the Risk_Level and Reason to build a clean, bulleted text summary for the final message.\n- Acts as a final staging area to define the formatted_message variable before sending."
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        "content": "## Filer high/medium risk\n- This node is responsible to check whether the risk is high/ medium.\n- If it is low then it doesn't forward it goes to false state.\n- Next node make the bundle which batch the article results"
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• gmailOAuth2
• googleSheetsOAuth2Api
• groqApi

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(Google News + Groq + Gmail)

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