Send Localized 9am RSS Coffee Newsletters with Rrule.net and Brevo

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  },
  "name": "Send a coffee newsletter at 09:00 local time in every region",
  "tags": [],
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    {
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      "name": "At 09:00 in each target timezone",
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      "position": [
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      "parameters": {
        "name": "Morning coffee newsletter",
        "input": "Send the morning coffee newsletter every day at 9am local time in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Perth",
        "timezone": "UTC",
        "onDeactivate": "pause"
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      "parameters": {
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        "assignments": {
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              "name": "schedule_id",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "manual-preview"
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            {
              "id": "sample-schedule-name",
              "name": "schedule_name",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "Morning coffee newsletter preview"
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              "id": "sample-scheduled-for",
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              "type": "string",
              "value": "={{ $now.setZone('Europe/Paris').toISO() }}"
            },
            {
              "id": "sample-timezone",
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              "type": "string",
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            },
            {
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              "name": "target_id",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "paris"
            },
            {
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              "type": "string",
              "value": "Paris"
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            {
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              "value": "Europe/Paris"
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        "jsCode": "// Replace every example.com address before publishing the workflow.\nconst shared = {\n  sender: 'Coffee Newsletter <user@example.com>',\n  feed_url: 'https://news.ycombinator.com/rss',\n  max_articles: 5,\n};\n\nconst audiences = {\n  paris: {\n    timezone: 'Europe/Paris',\n    locale: 'fr-FR',\n    recipient: 'user@example.com',\n    greeting: 'Bonjour Paris',\n    subject_prefix: 'Votre pause caf\u00e9',\n    intro: 'Voici les articles \u00e0 d\u00e9couvrir avec votre caf\u00e9 ce matin.',\n    footer: 'Envoy\u00e9 \u00e0 09:00 heure locale gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 rrule.net et n8n.',\n  },\n  new_york: {\n    timezone: 'America/New_York',\n    locale: 'en-US',\n    recipient: 'user@example.com',\n    greeting: 'Good morning New York',\n    subject_prefix: 'Your morning coffee',\n    intro: 'Here are a few stories to explore with your coffee this morning.',\n    footer: 'Delivered at 09:00 local time with rrule.net and n8n.',\n  },\n  tokyo: {\n    timezone: 'Asia/Tokyo',\n    locale: 'ja-JP',\n    recipient: 'user@example.com',\n    greeting: '\u304a\u306f\u3088\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3001\u6771\u4eac',\n    subject_prefix: '\u671d\u306e\u30b3\u30fc\u30d2\u30fc\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9',\n    intro: '\u4eca\u671d\u306e\u30b3\u30fc\u30d2\u30fc\u3068\u4e00\u7dd2\u306b\u8aad\u307f\u305f\u3044\u8a18\u4e8b\u3092\u304a\u5c4a\u3051\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002',\n    footer: 'rrule.net \u3068 n8n \u306b\u3088\u308a\u73fe\u5730\u6642\u959309:00\u306b\u914d\u4fe1\u3055\u308c\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002',\n  },\n  perth: {\n    timezone: 'Australia/Perth',\n    locale: 'en-AU',\n    recipient: 'user@example.com',\n    greeting: 'Good morning Perth',\n    subject_prefix: 'Your morning coffee',\n    intro: 'Here are a few stories to explore with your coffee this morning.',\n    footer: 'Delivered at 09:00 local time with rrule.net and n8n.',\n  },\n};\n\nreturn $input.all().map((item, itemIndex) => {\n  const targetId = String(item.json.target_id ?? '');\n  const audience = audiences[targetId];\n\n  if (!audience) {\n    throw new Error(`No audience configuration exists for target_id ${targetId}. Update the audiences map before publishing.`);\n  }\n\n  if (item.json.target_timezone && item.json.target_timezone !== audience.timezone) {\n    throw new Error(`Unexpected timezone ${item.json.target_timezone} for target_id ${targetId}. Expected ${audience.timezone}.`);\n  }\n\n  return {\n    json: {\n      ...item.json,\n      ...shared,\n      ...audience,\n    },\n    pairedItem: { item: itemIndex },\n  };\n});"
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      "parameters": {
        "url": "={{ $json.feed_url }}",
        "options": {}
      },
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      "waitBetweenTries": 5000
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      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.code",
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        "jsCode": "const config = $('Configure regional audiences').first().json;\n\nconst escapeHtml = (value) => String(value ?? '')\n  .replaceAll('&', '&amp;')\n  .replaceAll('<', '&lt;')\n  .replaceAll('>', '&gt;')\n  .replaceAll('\\\"', '&quot;')\n  .replaceAll(\"'\", '&#039;');\n\nconst safeUrl = (value) => {\n  const url = String(value ?? '').trim();\n  return /^https?:\\/\\/[^\\s<>\"']+$/i.test(url) ? url : '#';\n};\n\nconst articleLimit = Math.max(1, Math.min(10, Number(config.max_articles) || 5));\nconst articles = $input.all()\n  .map((item) => item.json)\n  .filter((article) => typeof article.title === 'string' && typeof article.link === 'string')\n  .slice(0, articleLimit);\n\nif (articles.length === 0) {\n  throw new Error('The RSS feed returned no usable articles. Check feed_url before publishing.');\n}\n\nconst scheduledDate = new Date(String(config.scheduled_for || new Date().toISOString()));\nconst displayDate = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(String(config.locale), {\n  dateStyle: 'full',\n  timeZone: String(config.timezone),\n}).format(scheduledDate);\n\nconst articleHtml = articles.map((article) => {\n  const title = escapeHtml(article.title);\n  const link = escapeHtml(safeUrl(article.link));\n  const rawSnippet = String(article.contentSnippet ?? '').trim();\n  const snippet = /^Article URL:/i.test(rawSnippet) ? '' : escapeHtml(rawSnippet.slice(0, 240));\n  const description = snippet ? `<p style=\\\"margin:8px 0 0;color:#5f5149;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.5;\\\">${snippet}</p>` : '';\n  return `<li style=\\\"margin:0 0 22px;padding-left:4px;color:#6f3f21;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;line-height:1.4;\\\"><a href=\\\"${link}\\\" style=\\\"color:#6f3f21;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;line-height:1.4;text-decoration:none;\\\">${title}</a>${description}</li>`;\n}).join('');\n\nconst html = `<!doctype html>\n<html lang=\\\"${escapeHtml(String(config.locale).split('-')[0] || 'en')}\\\">\n  <head>\n    <meta charset=\\\"utf-8\\\">\n    <meta name=\\\"viewport\\\" content=\\\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1\\\">\n  </head>\n  <body style=\\\"margin:0;background:#f7f1eb;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#2d241f;\\\">\n    <div style=\\\"display:none;max-height:0;overflow:hidden;opacity:0;color:transparent;\\\">${escapeHtml(config.intro)}</div>\n    <table role=\\\"presentation\\\" width=\\\"100%\\\" cellspacing=\\\"0\\\" cellpadding=\\\"0\\\" style=\\\"background:#f7f1eb;padding:24px 12px;\\\">\n      <tr><td align=\\\"center\\\">\n        <table role=\\\"presentation\\\" width=\\\"100%\\\" cellspacing=\\\"0\\\" cellpadding=\\\"0\\\" style=\\\"max-width:640px;background:#ffffff;border-radius:14px;overflow:hidden;\\\">\n          <tr><td style=\\\"background:#5b3825;padding:28px 32px;color:#ffffff;\\\">\n            <div style=\\\"font-size:13px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:.8;\\\">${escapeHtml(displayDate)}</div>\n            <h1 style=\\\"margin:10px 0 0;font-size:28px;\\\">\u2615 ${escapeHtml(config.greeting)}</h1>\n          </td></tr>\n          <tr><td style=\\\"padding:30px 32px;\\\">\n            <p style=\\\"margin:0 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6;\\\">${escapeHtml(config.intro)}</p>\n            <ol style=\\\"margin:0;padding-left:24px;\\\">${articleHtml}</ol>\n          </td></tr>\n          <tr><td style=\\\"padding:20px 32px;background:#efe3d7;color:#6b5a50;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\\\">\n            ${escapeHtml(config.footer)}<br>Target: ${escapeHtml(config.target_id)} \u00b7 ${escapeHtml(config.target_timezone)}\n          </td></tr>\n        </table>\n      </td></tr>\n    </table>\n  </body>\n</html>`;\n\nreturn [{\n  json: {\n    execution_id: config.execution_id,\n    scheduled_for: config.scheduled_for,\n    target_id: config.target_id,\n    target_timezone: config.target_timezone,\n    recipient: config.recipient,\n    sender: config.sender,\n    subject: `${config.subject_prefix} \u2014 ${displayDate}`,\n    html,\n    article_count: articles.length,\n  },\n}];"
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      "name": "Send with Brevo",
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      "position": [
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      ],
      "parameters": {
        "sender": "={{ $json.sender }}",
        "subject": "={{ $json.subject }}",
        "resource": "email",
        "sendHTML": true,
        "operation": "send",
        "htmlContent": "={{ $json.html }}",
        "receipients": "={{ $json.recipient }}",
        "additionalFields": {
          "emailTags": {
            "tags": {
              "tag": "rrulenet,coffee-newsletter"
            }
          }
        }
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      "position": [
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        "assignments": {
          "assignments": [
            {
              "id": "result-message-id",
              "name": "message_id",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "={{ $json.messageId }}"
            },
            {
              "id": "result-execution-id",
              "name": "execution_id",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "={{ $('Build localized newsletter').first().json.execution_id }}"
            },
            {
              "id": "result-scheduled-for",
              "name": "scheduled_for",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "={{ $('Build localized newsletter').first().json.scheduled_for }}"
            },
            {
              "id": "result-target-id",
              "name": "target_id",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "={{ $('Build localized newsletter').first().json.target_id }}"
            },
            {
              "id": "result-target-timezone",
              "name": "target_timezone",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "={{ $('Build localized newsletter').first().json.target_timezone }}"
            },
            {
              "id": "result-recipient",
              "name": "recipient",
              "type": "string",
              "value": "={{ $('Build localized newsletter').first().json.recipient }}"
            },
            {
              "id": "result-article-count",
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              "type": "number",
              "value": "={{ $('Build localized newsletter').first().json.article_count }}"
            }
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      "position": [
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      ],
      "parameters": {
        "width": 480,
        "height": 880,
        "content": "## Coffee newsletters at 09:00 local time\n\nThis workflow uses one target-aware rrule.net schedule to send a localized morning digest in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Perth.\n\n### Before activation\n\n1. Install `@rrulenet/n8n-nodes-rrulenet` version 0.1.4 or later.\n2. Add rrule.net and Brevo credentials.\n3. In **Configure regional audiences**, replace the example sender and recipients.\n4. Optionally change the RSS feed and article limit in the same node.\n5. Run **When clicking 'Execute workflow'** to test the Paris preview.\n6. Check the email and links, then activate the workflow.\n\n### Customize\n\nAdd targets and matching audience entries, replace the RSS source, adapt the localized copy and branding, or swap Brevo for another email provider."
      },
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      "position": [
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        -400
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "color": 7,
        "width": 320,
        "height": 440,
        "content": "## One schedule, four local times\n\n**At 09:00 in each target timezone** creates one logical rrule.net schedule with four targets. Paris and New York stay at 09:00 through DST changes; Tokyo and Perth keep their non-DST offsets. Each execution carries `target_id` and `target_timezone` for deterministic routing."
      },
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      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
      "position": [
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        40
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "color": 7,
        "width": 560,
        "height": 440,
        "content": "## Safe manual preview\n\n**When clicking 'Execute workflow'** injects a sample Paris execution without changing the remote rrule.net schedule. After you configure credentials and real addresses, the preview sends a real email through Brevo."
      },
      "typeVersion": 1
    },
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      "name": "Localized content",
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      "position": [
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        -400
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "color": 7,
        "width": 720,
        "height": 440,
        "content": "## Select, fetch, and localize\n\n**Configure regional audiences** matches `target_id` to its locale, timezone, sender, recipient, and localized copy. **Read the morning RSS feed** loads the configured source. **Build localized newsletter** keeps usable articles, escapes feed text, accepts only HTTP(S) links, and creates the responsive HTML email."
      },
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      "name": "Delivery context",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
      "position": [
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        -400
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "color": 7,
        "width": 448,
        "height": 440,
        "content": "## Send and return context\n\n**Send with Brevo** sends one digest for the current target. **Return delivery context** exposes the message ID, execution ID, scheduled time, target, recipient, and article count. Add the required consent, unsubscribe, and list-management behavior before public marketing use."
      },
      "typeVersion": 1
    }
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            "index": 0
          }
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        [
          {
            "node": "Read the morning RSS feed",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
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          {
            "node": "Configure regional audiences",
            "type": "main",
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          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "At 09:00 in each target timezone": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Configure regional audiences",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "When clicking 'Execute workflow'": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Use a sample Paris execution",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  }
}

About this workflow

Fetch an RSS feed, build a localized morning digest, and send it with Brevo at 09:00 local time in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Perth from one target-aware rrule.net schedule. One rrule.net Schedule Trigger emits an execution at 09:00 in each configured target timezone. The…

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