🎬 Create LinkedIn carousel post drafts from RSS articles with PostNitro and Gmail
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💡 Pro Tip — If you’re pulling LinkedIn data through HTTP requests or dealing with API restrictions, there’s a community node called ScraperNode that handles this natively. It has dedicated scrapers for profiles, companies, jobs, and people search — you just pass a URL and get structured data back.
Description
Quick Overview
This workflow polls the TechCrunch RSS feed for new articles, uses PostNitro to generate carousel content from each article URL, creates a PostNitro draft scheduled for the next day (LinkedIn document format), and sends Gmail notifications for both successful draft creation and generation failures.
How it works
- Runs every minute when the TechCrunch RSS feed has new items.
- Limits processing to the first 10 RSS items received in a run.
- Sends each article link to PostNitro AI to generate a carousel design from the article URL.
- Creates a PostNitro scheduled post in DRAFT status for the generated design, scheduled for one day in the future with LinkedIn document settings.
- Sends a Gmail email confirming the new draft is ready for review.
- If PostNitro AI generation errors, sends a Gmail email with the error and the article link.
Setup
- Add PostNitro API credentials and update the brand ID, preset ID, template ID, and selected account IDs to match your PostNitro workspace.
- Add Gmail OAuth2 credentials and set the recipient address and message content for both notification emails.
- Update the RSS feed URL and polling interval to the source you want to monitor.
- Adjust the item limit and the scheduled time offset (currently +1 day) to match how many articles you want to process and when drafts should be created.
🔗 Nodes Used
Gmail, RSS Feed Trigger
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File