Send a Daily Tech and World News Briefing From RSS and Youtube to Telegram

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  "name": "Daily News Digest: RSS & Youtube to Telegram (Text + Audio)",
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        "content": "## \ud83d\udcf0 Daily News Briefing\n\nThis workflow automatically collects the latest Technology, AI, and World News from multiple RSS feeds and YouTube, processes the content, removes duplicates, and sends a formatted news briefing to Telegram.\n\n### \ud83d\ude80 How it Works\n\n1. **Trigger**\n   - Runs automatically every day at the scheduled time.\n\n2. **Collect News**\n   - TechCrunch RSS\n   - The Verge RSS\n   - BBC World RSS\n   - BBC Asia RSS\n   - The Hindu RSS\n   - Latest YouTube videos (Last 24 Hours)\n\n3. **Process Data**\n   - Merge all RSS feeds.\n   - Normalize YouTube results.\n   - Tag content by source (RSS / YouTube).\n   - Remove duplicate articles.\n   - Sort news by publish date.\n\n4. **Generate Briefing**\n   - Create a clean HTML-formatted Telegram message.\n   - Automatically split long messages to fit Telegram's character limit.\n\n5. **Send to Telegram**\n   - Deliver the latest news briefing directly to your Telegram chat.\n\n---\n\n## \u2699\ufe0f Setup\n\n1. Configure credentials for:\n   - Telegram Bot API\n   - YouTube Data API\n\n2. Update your Telegram Chat ID.\n\n3. Activate the Schedule Trigger.\n\n---\n\n## \ud83d\udd27 Customization\n\n- Add or remove RSS feeds.\n- Change YouTube search keywords.\n- Modify filtering keywords inside the Code node.\n- Change the schedule time.\n- Customize the Telegram message format.\n\n---\n\n### \u2705 Output\n\nA fully automated daily news briefing containing the latest AI, Technology, and World News delivered directly to Telegram."
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        "content": "## 1. Input Sources\nFetches data from multiple sources.\n*Tip: Replace these RSS URLs and YouTube keywords to match your personal interests.*"
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        "content": "## 2. Data Preparation\nCleans HTML tags, deduplicates repeated articles, and mixes sources based on a defined ratio."
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          "regionCode": "IN",
          "publishedAfter": "={{ $now.setZone('America/New_York').minus({ hours: 24 }).toISO() }}"
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        "jsCode": "// ===== CONFIG =====\nconst MAX_ITEMS = 10000; // high limit = get all\n\n// ==================\n\nfunction cleanText(str) {\n  return String(str || '')\n    .replace(/<[^>]*>/g, ' ')     // remove HTML\n    .replace(/&#\\d+;/g, ' ')      // remove encoded chars\n    .replace(/\\s+/g, ' ')\n    .trim();\n}\n\nfunction parseDate(v) {\n  const d = new Date(v);\n  return isNaN(d.getTime()) ? null : d.toISOString();\n}\n\n// ===== MAIN =====\nconst seen = new Set();\nconst articles = [];\n\nfor (const item of $input.all()) {\n  const j = item.json || {};\n\n  // \u274c skip error objects\n  if (j.error) continue;\n\n  const title = cleanText(j.title);\n  const link = (j.link || '').split('?')[0]; // remove tracking params\n  const description = cleanText(j.contentSnippet || j.description || '');\n  const publishedAt = parseDate(j.isoDate || j.pubDate || j.date);\n\n  if (!title || !link) continue;\n\n  // \ud83d\udd01 remove duplicates\n  if (seen.has(link)) continue;\n  seen.add(link);\n\n  // \ud83c\udf0d detect source\n  let source = \"Unknown\";\n  if (link.includes(\"bbc.com\")) source = \"BBC\";\n  else if (link.includes(\"theverge.com\")) source = \"The Verge\";\n  else if (link.includes(\"nytimes.com\")) source = \"NYTimes\";\n  else if (link.includes(\"reuters.com\")) source = \"Reuters\";\n\n  articles.push({\n    title,\n    description,\n    link,\n    source,\n    publishedAt\n  });\n}\n\n// \ud83d\udd52 sort latest first\narticles.sort((a, b) => new Date(b.publishedAt) - new Date(a.publishedAt));\n\n// ===== OUTPUT =====\nreturn [{\n  json: {\n    total: articles.length,\n    articles: articles.slice(0, MAX_ITEMS)\n  }\n}];"
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        "jsCode": "const item = $input.first().json;\n\n// \u2705 build newsContext from articles if not present\nlet raw = item.newsContext;\n\nif (!raw && Array.isArray(item.articles)) {\n  raw = item.articles\n    .map(a => `${a.title} (${a.link})`)\n    .join('\\n');\n}\n\n// \u274c still invalid\nif (!raw || typeof raw !== \"string\") {\n  throw new Error(\"newsContext must be a string\");\n}\n\n// ===== PROCESS =====\n\n// 1) Extract URLs\nconst urlRegex = /(https?:\\/\\/[^\\s)]+)/g;\n\n// 2) Split lines\nconst lines = raw.split('\\n').map(l => l.trim()).filter(Boolean);\n\n// 3) Build structured news\nlet news = []; // \u2705 IMPORTANT (fix for your error)\n\nfor (let line of lines) {\n  const urls = line.match(urlRegex);\n\n  if (urls) {\n    let title = line.replace(urlRegex, '').trim();\n\n    title = title\n      .replace(/\\[.*?\\]/, '')\n      .replace(/:\\s*$/, '')\n      .trim();\n\n    if (title.length > 80) {\n      title = title.slice(0, 77) + '...';\n    }\n\n    news.push({\n      title,\n      url: urls[0]\n    });\n  }\n}\n\n// ===== SEND ALL (with Telegram limit fix) =====\n\nconst MAX_LENGTH = 4000;\nlet messages = [];\n\nlet currentMessage = `<b>Morning Briefing</b>\\n\\n`;\n\nfor (const n of news) {\n  const line = `\u2022 <a href=\"${n.url}\">${n.title}</a>\\n`;\n\n  if ((currentMessage + line).length > MAX_LENGTH) {\n    messages.push(currentMessage);\n    currentMessage = '';\n  }\n\n  currentMessage += line;\n}\n\nif (currentMessage) {\n  messages.push(currentMessage);\n}\n\n// Title\nconst today = new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0];\nconst title = `${today} Morning Briefing`;\n\n// \u2705 return multiple messages\nreturn messages.map(msg => ({\n  json: {\n    title,\n    telegram_body: msg\n  }\n}));"
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            "index": 0
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          {
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    },
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          {
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          }
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}

About this workflow

This workflow runs daily to collect headlines from multiple RSS feeds and recent YouTube videos, cleans and deduplicates the results, formats them into an HTML morning briefing, and sends the briefing to a Telegram chat. Runs every day at 07:00 using a schedule trigger. Fetches…

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