Automatically collect & process Google News articles to Google Sheets

Overview

This workflow automatically collects the latest articles from Google News RSS feeds, cleans and deduplicates them, and stores them neatly in a Google Sheet. It runs on a set schedule (every Monday at 09:00 by default) and helps you build a fresh pool of content ideas for newsletters, blogs, or social media.

What you can do with it

• 🔎 Research faster – pull in fresh articles from multiple RSS sources without manual searching.
• 🧼 Clean & normalize – extract the real article URL (instead of Google redirects), keep only the title, summary, and date.
• 🗑 No duplicates – filter out empty or repeated entries before they ever reach your sheet.
• 📊 Central storage – append all new, unique links into a Google Sheet for review or further automation.

How it works

1. Trigger – Cron starts the flow every Monday at 09:00 (you can change the schedule).
2. RSS Read – Fetches articles from multiple Google News queries (e.g., “AI”, “AI Automation”).
3. Merge – Combines all feed results into one list.
4. Set (Clean URL) – Extracts the real URL, title, summary, and publication date.
5. Filter – Ensures only items with a valid title and URL continue.
6. Unique by URL – Removes duplicate articles across feeds.
7. Google Sheets Append – Saves new links into your chosen Sheet for review and later use.

Setup Instructions

1. Import workflow into your n8n instance.
2. Update RSS feeds:
   • Replace the example Google News RSS URLs (AI, AI Automation) with your own queries.
   • Format:

     https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=YOUR_QUERY&hl=de&gl=DE&ceid=DE:de
     

3. Connect Google Sheets:
   • Add your Google Sheets credentials.
   • Select the documentId (the spreadsheet) and sheetName (the tab) in the Append new Links node.
   • Recommended columns: date, title, url, summary.
4. Adjust schedule:
   • In the Trigger: Montag 09:00 node, change the cron expression to daily or multiple times per day if you want.
5. Run test:
   • Execute once manually.
   • Check your sheet for the first rows.

Tips & Extensions

• ✅ Add more RSS Read nodes for additional sources (blogs, media outlets, niche topics).
• ✅ Chain this workflow with an AI node (OpenAI/GPT) to automatically generate post ideas from the collected articles.
• ✅ Notify yourself in Slack/Telegram when new articles are added.
• ✅ Use a status column (Draft, Approved, Posted) to manage a simple content pipeline directly from the sheet.

👉 With this template you’ll never run out of content ideas – everything flows into one place, ready to inspire your next posts, newsletters, or campaigns.