Automate Fresh RSS Article & Image Discovery
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This n8n workflow efficiently monitors any RSS feed, intelligently filters out previously seen articles, and extracts key information including the article's primary image. It ensures you always get the freshest content with relevant visuals for your applications.
About This Workflow
This powerful n8n workflow provides an automated solution for keeping track of new articles from any RSS feed. Running every 5 minutes, it reads the specified RSS feed and uses a clever state management function to identify and deliver only articles you haven't processed before. Beyond just the article title, URL, author, and date, it dynamically extracts the main image from the article's content. This prevents redundant processing and ensures your content streams, dashboards, or notifications are always populated with unique, fresh, and visually appealing information. Ideal for content marketers, personal news aggregators, or anyone needing up-to-the-minute updates.
Key Features
- Scheduled RSS Monitoring: Automatically checks your chosen RSS feed at a configurable interval (default: every 5 minutes).
- Duplicate Prevention: Intelligently filters out articles you've already seen, ensuring you only receive genuinely new content.
- Rich Data Extraction: Pulls essential article details like title, subtitle, author, URL, and publication date.
- Automated Image Extraction: Extracts the primary image URL directly from the article's HTML content.
- Configurable Source: Easily switch to any RSS feed by updating a single URL.
How To Use
- Configure the Cron Node: Adjust the "Trigger Times" parameter to set how often you want the workflow to check for new RSS articles. The default is every 5 minutes.
- Update RSS Feed Read Node: In the "URL" parameter, replace
"http://www.theverge.com/rss/full.xml"with the RSS feed URL you wish to monitor. - Adjust Filter RSS Data Node (Optional): If you need different fields from the RSS feed, modify the "Values" in this node.
- Only get new RSS1 Node: This node is pre-configured to detect new articles based on their publication date. No changes are typically required here.
- Refine Extract Image1 Node (Optional): If your target RSS articles have images structured differently, you might need to adjust the "CSS Selector" (e.g.,
img,.article-image img) or "Attribute" (src,data-src) to accurately capture the image URL. - Add Destination Node: Connect the output of "Extract Image1" to your desired destination, such as a Slack node for notifications, a Google Sheets node for logging, or a database node for storage.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "8111217a-1c66-45d4-8b2a-e9fc076f19c0",
"name": "Automate Fresh RSS Article & Image Discovery",
"nodes": 24,
"category": "Marketing",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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