AI-powered news monitoring with Linkup, Airtable, and Slack notifications

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2/3/2026

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This template provides a fully automated system for monitoring news on any topic you choose. It leverages Linkup's AI-powered web search to find recent, relevant articles, extracts key information like the title, date, and summary, and then neatly organizes everything in an Airtable base.

Stop manually searching for updates and let this workflow deliver a curated news digest directly to your own database, complete with a Slack notification to let you know when it's done. This is the perfect solution for staying informed without the repetitive work.

Who is this for?

Marketing & PR professionals: Keep a close eye on industry trends, competitor mentions, and brand sentiment.
Analysts & researchers: Effortlessly gather source material and data points on specific research topics.
Business owners & entrepreneurs: Stay updated on market shifts, new technologies, and potential opportunities without dedicating hours to reading.
Anyone with a passion project: Easily follow developments in your favorite hobby, field of study, or area of interest.

What problem does this solve?

Eliminates manual searching: Frees you from the daily or weekly grind of searching multiple news sites for relevant articles.
Centralizes information: Consolidates all relevant news into a single, organized, and easily accessible Airtable database.
Provides structured data: Instead of just a list of links, it extracts and formats key information (title, summary, URL, date) for each article, ready for review or analysis.
Keeps you proactively informed: The automated Slack notification ensures you know exactly when new information is ready, closing the loop on your monitoring process.

How it works

Schedule: The workflow runs automatically based on a schedule you set (the default is weekly).
Define topics: In the Set news parameters node, you specify the topics you want to monitor and the time frame (e.g., news from the last 7 days).
AI web search: The Query Linkup for news node sends your topics to Linkup's API. Linkup's AI searches the web for relevant news articles and returns a structured list containing each article's title, URL, summary, and publication date.
Store in Airtable: The workflow loops through each article found and creates a new record for it in your Airtable base.
Notify on Slack: Once all the news has been stored, a final notification is sent to a Slack channel of your choice, letting you know the process is complete and how many articles were found.

Setup

Configure the trigger: Adjust the Schedule Trigger node to set the frequency and time you want the workflow to run.
Set your topics: In the Set news parameters node, replace the example topics with your own keywords and define the news freshness that you'd like to set.
Connect your accounts:
- Linkup: Add your Linkup API key in the Query Linkup for news node. Linkup's free plan includes €5 of credits monthly, enough for about 1,000 runs of this workflow.
- Airtable: In the Store one news node, select your Airtable account, then choose the Base and Table where you want to save the news.
- Slack: In the Notify in Slack node, select your Slack account and the channel where you want to receive notifications.
Activate the workflow: Toggle the workflow to "Active", and your automated news monitoring system is live!

Taking it further

Change your database: Don't use Airtable? Easily swap the Airtable node for a Notion, Google Sheets, or any other database node to store your news.
Customize notifications: Replace the Slack node with a Discord, Telegram, or Email node to get alerts on your preferred platform.
Add AI analysis: Insert an AI node after the Linkup search to perform sentiment analysis on the news summaries, categorize articles, or generate a high-level overview before saving them.

AI-Powered News Monitoring with LinkUp, Airtable, and Slack Notifications

This n8n workflow automates the process of monitoring news articles, enriching them with AI-generated summaries, storing them in Airtable, and sending notifications to Slack. It's designed to keep you updated on relevant news without manual effort.

What it does

This workflow performs the following steps:

Triggers on a Schedule: The workflow runs at a predefined interval (e.g., daily, hourly) to check for new news.
Fetches News from LinkUp: It makes an HTTP request to the LinkUp API to retrieve the latest news articles.
Processes News Items:
- It loops through each news item received from LinkUp.
- For each item, it sets new fields, likely for data cleaning or preparation.
Enriches with AI Summaries (Placeholder): The workflow is set up to potentially integrate with an AI service (like OpenAI) to summarize the news articles. Note: The current JSON does not include an OpenAI node, but the "Edit Fields" node suggests data preparation for such a step.
Stores Data in Airtable: It saves the processed news articles (including any AI summaries) into a specified Airtable base and table.
Sends Slack Notifications: It aggregates the news items and sends a summary or individual notifications to a designated Slack channel.
Waits (Optional): Includes a wait step, which can be used to introduce delays between operations, especially when dealing with API rate limits or to space out notifications.

Prerequisites/Requirements

To use this workflow, you will need:

n8n Instance: A running n8n instance.
LinkUp API Key: An API key for the LinkUp service to fetch news articles.
Airtable Account: An Airtable account with a base and table configured to store the news data.
Slack Account: A Slack workspace and a channel where notifications will be posted.
AI Service (Optional): If you intend to use AI for summarization, an API key for a service like OpenAI (e.g., ChatGPT) would be required. This would involve adding an OpenAI node to the workflow.

Setup/Usage

Import the Workflow: Download the provided JSON and import it into your n8n instance.
Configure Credentials:
- LinkUp: Set up an HTTP Request credential with your LinkUp API key.
- Airtable: Configure your Airtable credential with your API key and base ID.
- Slack: Set up your Slack credential with an API token.
Customize Nodes:
- Schedule Trigger: Adjust the schedule to your desired frequency (e.g., every hour, once a day).
- HTTP Request (LinkUp): Update the URL and any headers/parameters to match your LinkUp API endpoint and desired news filters.
- Edit Fields: Review and adjust the fields being set or transformed to match your Airtable schema and any AI input requirements.
- Airtable: Specify your Airtable Base ID and Table Name where the news articles will be stored. Map the fields from the previous nodes to your Airtable columns.
- Slack: Configure the Slack channel ID and the message format for your notifications.
- Wait: Adjust the wait duration if necessary.
Activate the Workflow: Once all configurations are complete, activate the workflow. It will start running automatically based on your defined schedule.

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