Japanese Tech News Scanner n8n: Webhook + Slack Alerts

Instant Japanese Tech News Monitoring with Slack Alerts (Webhook + RSS Scanner)

The Japanese Tech News Scanner n8n: Webhook + Slack Alerts automatically scans major Japanese IT news and press-release sources for your specified Japanese keywords, returns raw matching results with links and plain-language summaries via webhook, and notifies Slack when something new matches—without any AI step, API key, or complex credentials.

What this workflow does

• Accepts a POST request with a service name and an array of Japanese keywords (competitor names are optional), validating required fields before starting.
• Fetches 3 official feeds and extracts article data directly from the raw XML, including title, link, publish date, and description from:
  • ITmedia Business Online
  • Impress Watch
  • PR TIMES
• Filters matches by checking whether your keywords appear in the title or description, sorts results by most recent, and caps output at 15 articles.
• Skips failed feeds (a single feed error won’t fail the entire run).
• Returns a JSON webhook response containing raw matches plus a plain-language, non-AI summary (or “no matching articles” when nothing is found).
• Posts to Slack only when matches exist using an Incoming Webhook, preventing alert noise.

Use cases

• Track competitor or product mentions across Japanese tech news for a SaaS ops team.
• Monitor PR TIMES releases for specific company announcements and get instant Slack previews.
• Build a simple “news intake” endpoint that other systems can call to trigger keyword scans.

Technical details

• n8n nodes/logic: webhook, if, set, code, http request, sticky note.
• Feeds parsed: RSS/RDF from ITmedia Business Online, Impress Watch, and PR TIMES.
• Notification: Slack via Incoming Webhook (only when at least one match is found).