Generate Curated Local News Digests with Gemini AI for Discord

This n8n workflow automates the process of fetching local news, curating it using Gemini AI, and then posting a summarized digest to a Discord channel. It's designed to keep community members informed about relevant local news without information overload.

What it does

This workflow performs the following steps:

1. Triggers on a Schedule: The workflow starts at predefined intervals (e.g., daily, hourly).
2. Fetches RSS Feeds: It reads news articles from multiple specified RSS feeds.
3. Limits Articles: It takes only the top 5 articles from the fetched feeds.
4. Sorts Articles: The articles are sorted, presumably by publication date or relevance (configuration dependent).
5. Generates AI Prompt: It constructs a prompt for Gemini AI, instructing it to act as a news curator and summarize the provided articles into a concise digest, suitable for a Discord channel, including relevant links.
6. Sends Request to Gemini AI: It makes an HTTP request to the Gemini AI API with the generated prompt to get the curated news digest.
7. Posts to Discord: The AI-generated news digest is then posted as a message to a specified Discord channel.

Prerequisites/Requirements

To use this workflow, you will need:

• n8n Instance: A running instance of n8n.
• RSS Feed URLs: URLs for the local news RSS feeds you wish to monitor.
• Gemini AI API Key: An API key for Google's Gemini AI. This will be used in the "HTTP Request" node.
• Discord Webhook URL or Bot Token: Credentials to post messages to your desired Discord channel. This could be a webhook URL or a bot token with appropriate permissions.

Setup/Usage

1. Import the Workflow:
   • Download the provided JSON file for this workflow.
   • In your n8n instance, click "New" in the workflows section, then "Import from JSON" and paste or upload the workflow JSON.
2. Configure the Schedule Trigger:
   • Open the "Schedule Trigger" node.
   • Set your desired interval for the workflow to run (e.g., daily at a specific time).
3. Configure RSS Read Node:
   • Open the "RSS Read" node.
   • Add the URLs of the RSS feeds you want to fetch local news from.
4. Configure Code Node (AI Prompt):
   • Open the "Code" node.
   • Review the JavaScript code that constructs the prompt for Gemini AI. You might want to adjust the prompt to fine-tune the AI's output (e.g., tone, length, specific instructions).
5. Configure HTTP Request Node (Gemini AI):
   • Open the "HTTP Request" node.
   • Method: Ensure it's set to POST.
   • URL: Set this to the Gemini AI API endpoint (e.g., https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-pro:generateContent?key={{$env.GEMINI_API_KEY}}).
   • Headers: Add an Authorization header if required by Gemini AI (though the example uses a query parameter for the API key).
   • Body: Ensure the body is correctly configured to send the prompt generated by the "Code" node.
   • Credentials: If your Gemini API key is stored as an n8n credential, select it here. Otherwise, ensure the API key is correctly passed in the URL or headers.
6. Configure Discord Node:
   • Open the "Discord" node.
   • Credential: Select or create a Discord credential (either a Webhook URL or a Bot Token).
   • Channel ID: Specify the ID of the Discord channel where the news digest should be posted.
   • Message: Configure the message to use the output from the "HTTP Request" node, which will contain the AI-generated news digest. You might need to parse the JSON response from Gemini AI to extract the relevant text.
7. Activate the Workflow: Once all configurations are complete, activate the workflow to start generating and posting news digests.