n8n News Monitoring Workflow: Build a Free Daily Web Digest

Description and use

Automated daily news digest for specified topics using n8n's free search, deduplication, LLM summarization, and email delivery.

Problem

Need a daily digest of new web content for specific topics without using paid search APIs.

Outcome

Daily email digest of new web results for specified topics, automatically deduped and summarized, using only free search tier.

Workflow

• Schedule Trigger at 7 am daily
• Code node emits list of topics
• AgentSearch Free Search per topic with split results
• Remove Duplicates on URL to filter new items
• Code node groups results by topic and builds LLM prompt
• Summarize with Basic LLM Chain + chat model
• Send Email with digest

Evidence

An n8n news monitoring workflow checks the web for you: every morning it searches your topics, drops anything it already showed you, has a model summarize what's new, and emails you the digest.

Source

No credentials. The free tier allows up to 25 searches per day per IP, each returning up to 5 results.

Source

Add the AgentSearch node with: Operation: Free Search, Query: {{ $json.topic }}, Max Results: 5, Split Results Into Items: on

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