Summarize RSS Feeds Into a Daily Slack Digest with Openai Gpt-4o Mini

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        "content": "## Summarize RSS feeds to a daily Slack digest using OpenAI\n\n## How it works\n\n1. The workflow triggers every morning at 8 AM.\n2. It reads the RSS feed to gather the latest news.\n3. It limits the news items to the top 10 based on criteria.\n4. The titles of the news items are aggregated into a single list.\n5. This aggregated list is summarized using an AI model.\n6. The summarized content is posted to a Slack channel.\n\n## Setup steps\n\n- [ ] Configure the Schedule Trigger node for 8 AM daily executions.\n- [ ] Add RSS feed URLs to the Read RSS Feed node.\n- [ ] Set up the Slack node with the necessary authentication details.\n\n## Customization\n\nAdjust the model parameters in the Summarize Digest node to change summarization style."
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        "content": "## Aggregate and summarize\n\nAggregates titles and summarizes them for the digest."
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        "text": "=Create a short daily digest from these articles. Group into 3-5 themes, one line each, with the most important first.\n\n{{ $json.data.map(i => '- ' + i.title + ' ' + i.link).join('\\n') }}",
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About this workflow

This workflow runs every morning at 8 AM to pull the latest items from an RSS feed, uses OpenAI (gpt-4o-mini) to summarize the top 10 into a themed daily digest, and posts the result to a Slack channel. Runs every day at 8 AM using a schedule trigger. Reads the latest items from…

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