Community Contributed: Y Combinator News to Spreadsheet and Email
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Fetches the latest news from Y Combinator, extracts titles and URLs, combines them, saves to a spreadsheet, and emails it.
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Overview
This workflow automates the process of fetching the latest news from a Y Combinator news page. It extracts the news titles and their corresponding URLs, merges this data, creates a spreadsheet file containing the latest news, and sends this file as an email attachment. This is a 'Community Contributed' template, meaning it's a valuable example shared by the community.
Key Features
- Fetches data from a specified URL (Y Combinator news).
- Extracts specific HTML elements (news titles and URLs) using CSS selectors.
- Merges extracted data by index.
- Generates a timestamped spreadsheet file with the news data.
- Sends the generated spreadsheet as an email attachment.
- Includes basic error handling to stop execution on failure.
How To Use
- Import the workflow: Upload the JSON to your n8n instance.
- Configure Environment Variable: Ensure the
BASE_URLenvironment variable is set with the correct Y Combinator news URL (e.g.,https://news.ycombinator.com/). - Configure Email Credentials: In the 'Send email notification' node, set up your SMTP credentials.
- Set Recipients: Update the
toEmailfield in the 'Send email notification' node. - Execute: Click the 'On clicking 'execute'' node to run the workflow.
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Workflow JSON
{
"id": "01c4e694-0ae0-46bc-bc0c-ab7b1cd1600a",
"name": "Community Contributed: Y Combinator News to Spreadsheet and Email",
"nodes": 0,
"category": "Web Scraping & Notifications",
"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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