Meta Ads Dayparting Report (n8n) w/ Claude & Gmail Email

Turn Meta hourly performance into an email-ready dayparting plan—automatically

The Meta Ads Dayparting Report (n8n) w/ Claude & Gmail Email pulls your last 30 days of Meta Ads results by hour, calculates cost-per-result per hour, uses Anthropic Claude to recommend a dayparting schedule, and then emails a plain-text “Meta Dayparting Report” via Gmail.

What this workflow does

• Manual run (on-demand): Executes when you manually trigger the workflow in n8n.
• Fetches hourly Meta performance: Pulls account-level Meta Marketing API insights for a selected date preset, broken down by hour of day in the advertiser time zone.
• Calculates CPA by hour: Computes cost-per-result per hour and compares hourly performance against an overall benchmark, while identifying best and worst hours above a configurable minimum spend threshold.
• Requests AI dayparting recommendations: Sends the benchmark and ranked hourly data to Anthropic Claude to generate a JSON schedule describing hours to cut, scale, and a brief plan.
• Generates a formatted report: Converts Claude’s response into a plain-text “Meta Dayparting Report” including the benchmark CPA and recommended hours.
• Sends the report by email: Emails the report using the Gmail node.

Use cases

• Optimize Meta Ads schedules by identifying high-efficiency hours and cutting low-performing times.
• SaaS operators and marketers who need recurring, actionable reporting without manually exporting hourly reports.
• Automation engineers building conversion-focused media optimization workflows in n8n.

Technical details

• Trigger: Manual Trigger
• Nodes/stack: Code, HTTP Request (Meta Marketing API), Gmail, Sticky Note
• Environment variables: META_ACCESS_TOKEN, META_AD_ACCOUNT_ID (optionally META_API_VERSION) and ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
• Configuration: DATE_PRESET, MIN_HOUR_SPEND, and RESULT_ACTIONS