📊 Send automated weekly news digest from Google News to Discord

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Description

📺 Full walkthrough video: https://youtu.be/QHvfykuSbF8

⚠️ Self-hosted only — This template uses a community node (Firecrawl) and cannot run on n8n Cloud.

Who it’s for

This workflow is for community managers, SEO professionals, or team leads who want to deliver a curated, AI-written news digest to a Discord channel automatically — without manually browsing news sources every week.

How it works

1. A schedule trigger fires every Monday at 9am and fetches a list of watch topics from a NocoDB data table.
2. For each topic, the workflow queries Google News via SerpAPI and extracts the top 3 article URLs.
3. Each article is scraped using Firecrawl, and the raw markdown is cleaned before being passed to Claude Sonnet.
4. Claude writes a structured French-language digest entry per topic, with media name, date, URL, and a 2–3 sentence summary.
5. All topic digests are aggregated and split into Discord-safe chunks (under 2000 characters).
6. An intro message is sent to Discord first, then each chunk is sent in a loop, followed by a closing conclusion message.

How to set up

• Configure the Schedule Trigger with your desired run frequency
• Connect NocoDB credentials and point the table node to your watch topics table
• Add your SerpAPI API key to the Search Google News node
• Add your Firecrawl API key to the Scrape Article Content node
• Add your Anthropic credentials to the Claude Sonnet sub-node
• Connect your Discord bot and set the correct server and channel IDs

Requirements

• NocoDB (or compatible data table) account
• SerpAPI account
• Firecrawl account
• Anthropic API key
• Discord bot with message permissions

How to customize

• Swap NocoDB for Airtable or Google Sheets to manage your watch topics list
• Edit the AI prompt in the “Draft Watch Summary with AI” node to change the language, tone, or output structure of the digest
• Adjust the DISCORD_CHAR_LIMIT constant in the “Split Text for Discord” code node to handle different message size constraints

🔗 Nodes Used

Discord, Schedule Trigger, Basic LLM Chain, Anthropic Chat Model, Data table

📥 Import

Download workflow.json and import into n8n: Workflow menu → Import from File

📖 Importing guide · 🔑 Credential setup