🎯 Automated Trello Board Summarization with GPT-5-Nano
⚡ 495 views · 🎯 AI Summarization & Classification
Description
This workflow pulls a Trello board → lists → cards, maps key fields (board, list, task names/descriptions), and asks OpenAI to summarize the board.
⚙️ Setup Instructions
1️⃣ Connect Trello (Developer API)
- Get your API key: https://trello.com/app-key
- Generate a token (from the same page → Token), or use:
https://trello.com/1/authorize?expiration=never&name=n8n&scope=read,write&response_type=token&key=YOUR_API_KEY - In n8n → Credentials → New → Trello API, paste API Key and Token, save.
- Open each Trello node (Get Board, Get Lists, Get Cards) and select your Trello credential.
2️⃣ Set Up OpenAI
- Create an API key: https://platform.openai.com/api-keys
- (If needed) Add billing: https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/billing/overview
- In n8n → Credentials → New → OpenAI, paste your key, save.
- In the OpenAI Chat Model node, pick your credential and model (e.g.,
gpt-5-nano).
3️⃣ Add Your Board URL to “Get Board”
- Copy your Trello board URL (e.g.,
https://trello.com/b/DCpuJbnd/administrative-tasks). - Open the Get Board node → Resource: Board, Operation: Get.
- In ID, choose URL mode and paste the board URL.
- The node will resolve the board and output its
id→ used by Get Lists / Get Cards.
- The node will resolve the board and output its
▶️ Run
- Click Execute Workflow.
- The final Summarize Tasks step returns a concise board summary.
📬 Contact
📧 robert@ynteractive.com
🔗 Robert Breen
🌐 ynteractive.com
🔗 Nodes Used
Trello, AI Agent, OpenAI Chat Model
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File