Daily AI RSS News Digest n8n Workflow (OpenAI + Email)

Get a daily AI-summarized RSS news digest—automatically delivered to your inbox

This Daily AI RSS News Digest n8n workflow schedules a daily run, pulls your chosen RSS feeds, and uses OpenAI to generate 2–3 sentence summaries for each article—then sends a formatted digest email via SMTP.

What this workflow does

• Schedules daily delivery using a schedule trigger to run every day.
• Fetches your latest articles from the configured RSS feed URL (via an RSS feed read node).
• Controls and cleans the feed by limiting batch size, de-duplicating items, sorting newest-first, and preparing compact text snippets per article.
• Generates AI summaries using an OpenAI Chat Model through a LangChain-style LLM chain to produce a 2–3 sentence summary for each article.
• Builds a single digest by aggregating all article summaries into one collection and creating an email subject plus both HTML and plain-text bodies.
• Sends the email to your specified recipient using an Email Send node with SMTP credentials.

Use cases

• Stay current on industry news (product, security, AI, startups) without manually opening feeds.
• Operational intelligence for SaaS teams: collect daily updates from selected RSS sources and share them internally via email.
• Automation engineers use it as a practical example of combining RSS ingestion, deduplication, LLM summarization, and email delivery in n8n.

Technical details

• Nodes / components: Code, Limit, Aggregate, RSS Feed Read, Email Send, Sticky Note.
• AI: OpenAI Chat Model node (choose the model you want to use).
• Email delivery: SMTP (e.g., Gmail, SendGrid, SES, or Brevo—configured in Email Send).
• Workflow behavior: limits items, de-duplicates, sorts newest-first, summarizes each article, aggregates results, sends HTML + plain-text digest.

Setup in minutes

Add an OpenAI API credential, configure SMTP, update your RSS feed URL (and article limit if needed), set toEmail, fromEmail, and fromName, then enable the workflow.