Automate Y Combinator News Digests with n8n
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Effortlessly capture the latest news from Y Combinator's front page and receive it directly in your inbox. This n8n workflow automates web scraping, data extraction, and email delivery.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow empowers you to stay on top of the latest trends and articles from Y Combinator without manual intervention. It begins by triggering an HTTP request to fetch the content of the Y Combinator news page. Next, an HTML Extract node intelligently parses the page, specifically targeting story links to retrieve both the news titles and their corresponding URLs. These extracted titles and URLs are then processed by item list nodes to prepare them for merging. The Merge node combines these lists, ensuring that each news item's title is paired with its URL. Finally, the combined data is formatted into a spreadsheet file, which is then attached to an email and sent to you, delivering a concise digest of the most recent Y Combinator stories.
Key Features
- Automated News Fetching: Automatically retrieve the latest articles from Y Combinator.
- Intelligent Data Extraction: Precisely extracts news titles and URLs using CSS selectors.
- Email Notifications: Receive a daily or on-demand digest of news directly to your inbox.
- Spreadsheet Output: Generates a clean spreadsheet file of the extracted news for easy review.
- Customizable Trigger: Easily run the workflow manually on demand.
How To Use
- Manual Trigger: Start the workflow by clicking the 'execute' button on the 'On clicking 'execute'' node.
- Fetch News: The 'HTTP Request' node will automatically fetch the HTML content from
https://news.ycombinator.com/. - Extract Data: Configure the 'HTML Extract' node's
extractionValuesto target the '.storylink' CSS selector for bothnews_titleandnews_url. - Prepare for Merge: Use the 'list news title' and 'list news url' nodes to split out the respective fields.
- Combine Data: The 'Merge' node will combine the titles and URLs based on their order.
- Generate Spreadsheet: The 'Spreadsheet File' node will create a
.xlsxor.csvfile named with the current date. - Send Email: Configure the 'Send email notification' node with your SMTP credentials and recipient email address to receive the news digest.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
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"id": "e88249ad-b172-44af-9356-ec4643bb95c8",
"name": "Automate Y Combinator News Digests with n8n",
"nodes": 19,
"category": "DevOps",
"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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