Automate GitHub Project Sharing to Social Media with n8n

How it works

This workflow automates the process of finding and sharing interesting GitHub projects from Hacker News. It starts by crawling the Hacker News homepage to identify posts mentioning GitHub. The 'Extract Meta' node parses the HTML to pull out titles, URLs, scores, authors, and other relevant details for GitHub links. It then filters out items that have already been processed. For new items, it visits the GitHub URL to potentially gather more context (though this step's output isn't explicitly used later in this snippet, it's a placeholder for future enrichment). The content is then converted to Markdown. Finally, the workflow attempts to update Airtable to track posted items and posts to LinkedIn. It also includes logic to update status for Twitter and LinkedIn posts in Airtable.