Automated daily news summaries with OpenRouter AI & Gmail delivery

Daily AI News Summary & Gmail Delivery

This n8n template demonstrates how to build an autonomous AI agent that automatically scours the web for the latest news, intelligently summarizes the top stories, and delivers a professional, formatted news digest directly to your email inbox.

Use cases are many: Create a personalized daily briefing to start your day informed, keep your team updated on industry trends and competitor news, or automate content curation for your newsletter.

Good to know

• At the time of writing, costs will depend on the LLM you select via OpenRouter and your usage of the Tavily Search API. Both services offer free tiers to get started.
• This workflow requires API keys and credentials for OpenRouter, Tavily, and Gmail.
• The AI Agent's system prompt is configured to produce summaries in Japanese. You can easily change the language and topics by editing the prompt in the "AI News Agent" node.

How it works

1. The workflow begins on a daily schedule, which you can configure to your preferred time.
2. A Code node dynamically generates a search query for the current day's most important news across several categories.
3. The AI Agent receives this query. It uses its attached tools to perform the task:
   • It uses the Tavily News Search tool to find relevant, up-to-date articles from the web.
   • It then uses the OpenRouter Chat Model to analyze the search results, identify the most significant stories, and write a summary for each.
   • The agent's output is strictly structured into a JSON format, containing a main title and an array of individual news stories.
4. Another Code node takes this structured JSON data and transforms it into a clean, professional HTML-formatted email.
5. Finally, the Gmail node sends the beautifully formatted email to your specified recipient.

How to use

• Before you start, you must add your credentials for OpenRouter, Tavily, and Gmail in their respective nodes.
• Customize the schedule in the "Schedule Trigger" node to set the daily delivery time.
• Change the recipient's email address in the final "Send a message" (Gmail) node.

Requirements

• OpenRouter account (for access to various LLMs)
• Tavily AI account (for the real-time search API)
• Google account with Gmail enabled for sending emails via OAuth2

Customising this workflow

• Change the delivery channel: Easily swap the final Gmail node for a Slack, Discord, or Telegram node to send the news summary to a team channel.
• Focus the news topics: Modify the "Prepare News Query" node to search for highly specific topics, such as "latest advancements in artificial intelligence" or "financial news from the European market."
• Archive the news: Add a node after the AI Agent to save the structured JSON data to a database or Google Sheet, allowing you to build a searchable news archive over time.