Daily YouTube AI News Digest to Telegram (n8n, Firecrawl, Claude)

Get an AI-focused YouTube news digest in Telegram—automatically, every day

This n8n workflow automatically scrapes a configured YouTube channel’s videos from the last 24 hours, summarizes the technical AI news using Anthropic Claude (with a Fireworks DeepSeek fallback), and sends a clean, structured digest directly to your Telegram chat.

What this workflow does

• Runs daily at 10:00 (based on your n8n instance timezone).
• Uses Firecrawl to start an Agent job on the channel’s /videos page.
• The Firecrawl Agent keeps only videos published in the last 24 hours and extracts, per video: title, URL, publish time, and a detailed technical summary built from the description, chapters, and transcript.
• Waits 7 minutes, then polls Firecrawl for job status until completed (only the initial Agent call consumes your Firecrawl run quota; status checks are free).
• Flattens results into a plain-text block, dropping items without a title or summary.
• Rewrites the content into a consistent digest format with Claude Haiku 4.5 using this structure for every item: WHAT HAPPENED, THE NUMBERS, WHY IT MATTERS, and SOURCE (with a link back to the video).
• If Claude fails, n8n automatically retries via DeepSeek through Fireworks.
• Sends the digest to Telegram and retries up to five times if Telegram is temporarily unavailable.

Use cases

• Monitor an AI engineering YouTube channel daily and keep your team updated in Telegram.
• SaaS operators and automation engineers: generate recurring “AI news” briefs without manual curation.
• Personal research feed: quickly triage new technical videos and read consistent summaries with sources.

Technical details

• Designed for n8n automation using nodes such as if, set, code, wait, telegram, and a sticky note.
• Requires the Firecrawl community node: @mendable/n8n-nodes-firecrawl (especially if your instance doesn’t already include it).
• Summarization uses Claude Haiku 4.5, with a Fireworks DeepSeek fallback.