⚡ Send birthday and anniversary reminders with Groq AI gift ideas to Telegram
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Description
Birthday & Anniversary Reminder with AI Gift Ideas — Telegram
Never forget a birthday again. This workflow checks your contacts daily and sends you a Telegram alert 7 days before each birthday and on the day itself — with a warm, AI-generated personal message and 3 gift ideas tailored to the person’s interests.
How It Works
- Fill a Google Sheet (“People” tab) with: name, birthday, relationship, interests
- The workflow runs daily at 8 AM (configurable)
- Checks if any birthday is today → sends 🎂 “TODAY” alert
- Checks if any birthday is in 7 days → sends 📅 “REMINDER” alert
- AI (Groq, free tier) writes a warm, personalized birthday message based on the person’s name, age, relationship, and interests
- AI suggests 3 specific gift ideas with price estimates ($20-100)
- Everything sent to your Telegram in one clean message
What You’ll Receive on Telegram
🎂 TODAY — Khalil Mansour turns 34!
👤 friend
📅 2026-04-26
💡 Interests: football, gaming, tech gadgets
💌 MESSAGE:
Happy Birthday Khalil! 🎉 Wishing you an epic 34th year filled
with incredible goals, clutch victories, and exciting new tech
to geek out over. You deserve all the best — enjoy your day!
🎁 GIFT IDEAS:
1. FIFA 26 Ultimate Edition ($60)
2. Razer BlackShark V2 gaming headset ($45)
3. Anker portable phone charger for match days ($30)Workflow Architecture
▶️ Manual Test ──→ 📖 Read People → 📅 Check Dates → 🎁 Format Messages
⏰ Daily 8 AM ──↗ ↓
🤖 AI Personalize ← Groq Chat Model
↓
📝 Combine Message
↓
📲 Send Telegram9 nodes total. Each node has a clear, single responsibility.
Google Sheet Format
Create a Google Sheet with a tab named “People” and these columns:
| name | birthday | relationship | interests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mom | 1965-08-20 | family | gardening, cooking |
| Ahmad | 1990-05-15 | friend | photography, hiking |
| Sarah | 1985-12-03 | colleague | books, cooking |
| Boss | 1978-11-02 | work | golf, wine, travel |
What You Need
- Google Sheet with your contacts (format above)
- Telegram bot — create via @BotFather in 2 minutes, then send /start to your bot
- Groq API key — free, no credit card needed (console.groq.com)
Setup (10 minutes)
- Import the workflow JSON into n8n
- Open 📖 Read People → select your Google Sheet and set tab name to “People”
- Open 📲 Send Telegram → add your Telegram credential and set your Chat ID (get it from @userinfobot on Telegram)
- Open Groq Chat Model → add your Groq API credential
- Click ▶️ Manual Test to verify everything works
- Activate the workflow — it runs automatically every day at 8 AM
Features
- 7-day advance reminder — enough time to buy and ship a gift
- Day-of alert — never miss sending a birthday message
- AI-personalized messages — warm, unique messages based on who the person is and what they like
- AI gift suggestions — 3 specific ideas with prices, tailored to their interests
- Age calculation — automatically calculates how old they’re turning
- Year wrap-around — correctly handles birthdays that already passed this year
- Graceful fallback — if AI is unavailable, you still get the basic reminder
- Manual test button — test the full workflow before activating
Customizable
- Reminder window — change from 7 days to any number (edit one line in the Check Dates node)
- Alert time — change from 8 AM to any time (edit the cron in the Schedule trigger)
- AI model — swap Groq model in the Chat Model node (default: llama-3.1-8b-instant)
- Multiple events — works for birthdays, anniversaries, or any annual date — just add rows
Monthly Cost
$0. Google Sheets is free. Telegram Bot API is free. Groq free tier (14,400 requests/day) easily handles a few AI calls per day.
Setup Time
10 minutes. Import → connect 3 credentials → fill your contacts sheet → activate. Done forever.
🔗 Nodes Used
Google Sheets, Telegram, Schedule Trigger, Basic LLM Chain, Groq Chat Model
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File