Flexible News Curator - Multi-Sources, AI Analysis, Summaries, Translation, and Settable Channels

🎬 Overview

The Flexible News Curator workflow can automate the collection, filtering, AI-driven analysis, and summarization of news from diverse sources of your interest. Using customizable search themes, RSS feeds, and (optional) video descriptions, it delivers concise, quality news summaries via configurable channels. This workflow is designed to help reduce information overload and keep you updated effortlessly.

✨ Features

• Multi-Source News Aggregation: Collect news from customizable RSS feeds, SerpAPI, and Video Channel Feeds (if enabled).
• AI-Powered News Selection & Summarization: Uses advanced AI agents (Mistral Cloud Chat Model by default) to select, analyze, and summarize top news.
• Quality Assurance Step: Optional AI-powered filtering to improve news selection quality before analysis.
• Multi-Language Translation & Tone Customization: Translate summaries and customize tone for localized or tailored consumption.
• Multi-Channel Delivery: Send outputs via Email, Telegram, WhatsApp, Webhook, or save to disk.
• Advanced Filtering: Regex-based filtering on URLs, titles, and content to exclude unwanted articles.
• Sub-Workflow Architecture: Modular handling of video transcripts, content retrieval, multi-theme searching, and more.
• Flexible Scheduling & Trigger Options: Supports schedule-based triggering, email (IMAP) triggers, and webhook-based activation.
• (Optional) Video Search: Video content descriptions via Video Channel Feeds.

👤 Who is this for?

This workflow benefits professionals, researchers, marketers, and anyone who needs to stay informed about specific news themes without wasting time on irrelevant information or reading too many news to select the most interesting ones.

💡 What problem does this solve?

The workflow tackles the challenge of information overload by automatically filtering, summarizing, and delivering the essential news tailored to your interests and preferences. It integrates various data sources and channels for comprehensive yet efficient news consumption. Ideal use-cases include:

• Monitoring breakthroughs in research fields
• Receiving daily business opportunity updates (e.g., real estate)
• Lower the cognitive load required to follow your favorite news
• Translating news summaries to your chosen language

🔍 What this workflow does

The workflow gathers news from RSS feeds, search engines, and social media, then:

• Filters duplicates and irrelevant content via custom regex filters and date ranges.
• Applies optional AI-powered Quality Assurance for headline evaluation.
• Selects top news articles with AI analysis focused on user-defined criteria and audience.
• Summarizes individual articles using AI summarization agents, ensuring structured, consistent outputs.
• Optionally translates and adjusts the tone of summaries.
• Distributes summaries through configured channels such as email, social media, messaging apps, or webhook calls.
  

🔄 Workflow Steps

1. News Gathering
2. Filtering
3. News Selection
4. News Summarization
5. Sender Preparation
6. Sending to selected channels

📌 Expected Input / Configuration

The workflow is primarily configured via the Configure Workflow Args node or the Global Variables custom node, with these key parameters:

Hint: To add or combine keywords in censors, use the pattern "keyword1|keyword2|keyword3".

📦 Expected Output

Structured JSON containing a general news summary, top news with summaries, and metadata, suitable for your preferred channel delivery.

📌 Example

An example that includes workflow parameters is provided in a note within the workflow.

⚡ Requirements to Use / Setup

• Self-hosted n8n instance.
• Install necessary custom nodes:
  • n8n-nodes-serpapi
  • n8n-nodes-globals (or use Edit Field (Set) node instead)
• Configure all sub-workflows bundled within this template (see Sub-Workflows Guide).
• Provide valid credentials to nodes for SerpAPI, Telegram, WhatsApp, Mistral Cloud Chat API, and SMTP (for email).
• Custom RSS feed list must be set by you in the workflow args.
• You must either install the SerpAPI custom node or deactivate it.

⚠️ Notes, Assumptions & Warnings

• The workflow timeout is set to 30 minutes by default; adjust depending on your setup and workload.
• Duplicate removal is applied, but occasional overlaps might still appear depending on feed sources.
• This workflow assumes familiarity with n8n, RSS feeds, API key management and regex expressions.
• Video search only works for configured video channels; remember to respect the rights of these channels.
• Using AI agents (Mistral or substitute LLMs) requires access to their API services and keys.
• Out-of-the-box customization is done via the Global Variables node or direct workflow argument edits.

ℹ️ About Us

This workflow was developed by the Hybroht team of AI enthusiasts and developers dedicated to enhancing the capabilities of AI through collaborative processes. Our goal is to create tools that harness the possibilities of AI technology and more. For questions, support, or feature requests, reach out via contact@hybroht.com.

🔀 Miscellaneous

There is a lite version available with fewer features here: https://hybroht.gumroad.com/l/news-curator-ai-automation

❓ Questions & Issues

We will answer any questions, provided they are related to this workflow.

Please contact us if there is any bug/issue with this workflow. We will assist you.

⚖️ Warranty & Legal Notice

You can view the full license terms here. Please review them before making your purchase.

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User Responsibility Notice: This workflow is a tool for automated news curation configured entirely by you. You are solely responsible for ensuring that all RSS feeds, video channels, API credentials, and delivery methods you configure comply with applicable terms of service, copyright laws, data privacy regulations, and messaging platform policies. This notice is a summary reminder regarding your responsibilities and does not replace or modify the full license terms linked above. Please read the full license carefully.