📊 Send weekly GitHub digest with releases, commits and trending repos via Gmail
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Description
Send Weekly GitHub Digest with Releases, Commits, and Trending Repos
Stay on top of the GitHub ecosystem with a single automated weekly email covering it all.
How it works
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A schedule trigger fires every Monday at 9am and reads your config variables. Feel free to modify schedule.
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Three branches run in parallel:
- Releases: fetches the latest release from each watched repo via the GitHub API
- Commits: fetches recent commits or public events for each tracked repo or username
- Trending: scrapes github.com/trending for that day’s actual trending repositories
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All three branches merge into a single Code node that builds one HTML email with three labeled sections.
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If any content was found, the email is sent via Gmail. Otherwise the workflow exits silently.
Setup steps
- Connect your Gmail account.
- Open Set Variables and configure:
- recipient_email — where to send the digest
- release_repos — list of repos to watch for releases (e.g. n8n-io/n8n)
- tracked_entities — GitHub usernames or owner/repo paths to track commits- days_back — lookback window in days (default: 7)
- Activate.
🔗 Nodes Used
HTTP Request, Gmail, Schedule Trigger
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File