Automate Paul Graham Essay Summarization
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This workflow automatically scrapes the latest essays from Paul Graham's website, generates concise summaries using GPT-4o-mini, and organizes the output for easy consumption.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow is designed to bring you the latest insights from Paul Graham's prolific writing without requiring you to sift through his entire article archive. It begins by fetching the list of all articles from his website and then intelligently extracts the URLs of individual essays. To ensure you're getting the most relevant content, it then limits the processing to the three most recent essays. Each of these essays is fetched, and their titles and main content are extracted. Finally, the core of the automation leverages the power of GPT-4o-mini through n8n's Langchain integration to summarize the content. The output is a clean dataset containing the essay title, a concise summary, and the original URL, ready for your reading pleasure.
Key Features
- Automatically fetches and processes Paul Graham's essays.
- Utilizes AI (GPT-4o-mini) for content summarization.
- Extracts titles and generates summaries efficiently.
- Limits processing to the 3 most recent essays for timely insights.
- Organizes output with title, summary, and URL.
How To Use
- Trigger Workflow: Click the "Execute Workflow" button to start the automation.
- Fetch Essay List: The workflow accesses
paulgraham.com/articles.htmlto retrieve a list of essay URLs. - Extract Essay Names: It parses the HTML to identify and extract individual essay links.
- Limit to Recent Essays: The workflow is configured to process only the first 3 essays found, ensuring you get the latest content.
- Fetch Essay Texts: For each of the selected essays, their full content is downloaded.
- Extract Content: The workflow extracts the main body text and the title of each essay.
- Summarize with AI: The extracted essay content is fed into a summarization chain powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini.
- Clean and Organize Output: The final output is formatted to include the essay title, the AI-generated summary, and the essay's URL.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
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"id": "612f0519-2421-4e6d-b3b8-f1bc31b074d6",
"name": "Automate Paul Graham Essay Summarization",
"nodes": 13,
"category": "Personal",
"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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