Book club manager & recommendation engine with Mistral AI and Gemini Vision

📚 The Literary Curator: AI Book Club Manager & Recommendation Engine

Transform your n8n instance into a sophisticated, automated backend for a book club. This "Literary Curator" workflow acts as an all-in-one administrator, archivist, and reading guide. It intelligently analyzes your club's collective reading history to generate personalized recommendations, onboard new members, and manage all your club's data via email, chat, and web forms.

✨ Key Features

Automated Recommendation Engine: A weekly scheduled agent (using Mistral AI) analyzes the club's "Book Archive" to generate 10 fresh, non-duplicate book recommendations with witty, personalized "Why This Read" justifications.

Visual Bookshelf Scanning: Uses Google Gemini Vision to analyze photos of physical bookshelves or Goodreads screenshots and automatically populate the database.

The "Literary Oracle" Chatbot: A conversational AI agent that has full context of the club's history. It can answer questions, add books to the archive, or manage members via chat.

Full Member Management: Automated onboarding flows for new members, including welcome emails and database entry.

Multi-Channel Interaction: Users can interact via Webhooks (API), n8n Forms, or Chat.

Weekly Newsletters: Automatically compiles the AI's "Vibe Check" summary and top 10 recommendations into a beautifully formatted HTML email sent via Gmail.

🤖 AI Models Used

Mistral Cloud (Large/Medium): Powers the core reasoning, recommendation logic, and the chat Oracle.

Google Gemini (PaLM/Flash): Used for vision analysis (scanning bookshelf photos) and generating discussion prompts.

🛠️ Setup Guide

Prerequisites:

n8n version with LangChain support.

Mistral Cloud API Key

Google Gemini API Key

Gmail OAuth2 Credentials

🚀 How to Use

Automated Schedule

By default, the workflow runs every Friday at 7:00 PM. It checks the archive, generates a new weekly summary and recommendation list, saves it to the database, and emails all members.

User Forms

The workflow includes built-in n8n Forms for user interaction:

Feedback Form

For members to rate books or request specific genres.

Idea Board: For submitting general reading ideas.

Upload Form

Accepts images of bookshelves or Goodreads exports to bulk-import reading history.

API / App Backend

This workflow exposes several POST webhooks (e.g., /api/ai/chat, /api/archive/add), allowing you to build a custom frontend (React, Glide, etc.) on top of this n8n workflow.