đź“Š Daily business news summary with OpenAI and Gmail from multiple RSS sources
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Description
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Pulls free business and economic headlines from multiple publicly available RSS feeds (e.g., Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve, St. Louis Fed, BNP Paribas, WTO).
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De-duplicates stories, keeps only the last 24 hours, and limits to a manageable number.
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Uses OpenAI to generate a concise market brief with sections and “Why it matters.”
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Sends a clean HTML email via Gmail.
Category: Business / Economics / News
Time to set up: ~10—15 minutes
Difficulty: Beginner—Intermediate
Cost: Free (except minimal OpenAI tokens if summarization is used)
What you’ll need
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n8n (recent version)
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OpenAI credentials (for summaries, optional if you want raw feeds only)
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Gmail (or SMTP) credentials
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A few free RSS feed URLs (swap in/out as you like)
Set up steps
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Trigger — Add a Cron to run daily (pick your time and timezone).
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Fetch — Add one RSS Read node per source and connect all to a Merge (append).
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De-duplicate (this run) — Add Remove Duplicates and compare on a stable key (prefer the article URL).
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Freshness — Add an IF to pass only items published in the last 24 hours.
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Limit — Add Limit to cap the total items (e.g., 25).
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Summarize — Add OpenAI → Message a model to produce a JSON brief with subject + HTML body.
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Email — Add Gmail → Send to deliver the brief to your inbox.
Tips & troubleshooting
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If everything gets discarded at de-dup while testing, switch to “within current input” or reset the node’s stored values.
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If no items pass the IF, widen the date window temporarily (some feeds publish late).
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If the email arrives blank, ensure Gmail email type is set to HTML and the subject/body fields map to the model’s output.
Free sources you can start with (swap freely)
- Yahoo News
- Financial Times
đź”— Nodes Used
RSS Read, Gmail, Schedule Trigger, OpenAI
đź“Ą Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File