n8n RSS Freelance Scoring: OpenRouter + Gmail Outreach

Automatically score fresh international freelance opportunities from RSS—and draft outreach with OpenRouter, sent to Gmail for your review

The n8n RSS Freelance Scoring: OpenRouter + Gmail Outreach workflow scans public RSS feeds on a schedule, scores each opportunity using your keyword rules, and uses OpenRouter to generate a concise first-contact outreach draft—then emails everything to your Gmail inbox for human approval.

What this workflow does

• Runs every 6 hours (or manually): Triggered on a schedule to continually check for new RSS items.
• Loads configuration: RSS URLs, included/priority/excluded keyword lists, scoring threshold, OpenRouter model, and the review email address.
• Reads feeds one by one: Splits the configured RSS URLs and processes each public RSS feed sequentially.
• Scores each item: Evaluates each feed entry for keyword matches, keeps the title, URL, description, and records scoring reasons.
• Filters by threshold: Only opportunities that meet or exceed your minimum score proceed.
• Generates outreach with OpenRouter: Sends the opportunity details to OpenRouter Chat Completions to produce a concise first-contact draft tailored to your profile and the listing details.
• Sends to Gmail for review: Emails the opportunity info, score, reasons, and the generated draft to your inbox for manual action.

Use cases

• An automation engineer wants a repeatable pipeline for sourcing leads from RSS and generating drafts.
• A SaaS operator monitors international job/freelance listings and needs faster outreach with human review.
• An n8n user builds an RSS-to-outreach workflow that combines rule-based scoring with LLM drafting.

Technical details

• n8n nodes: if, set, code, gmail, sticky note, http request
• OpenRouter integration: Add an OpenRouter API key via HTTP Header Auth (e.g., Authorization: Bearer <key>) on the OpenRouter request.
• Gmail integration: Connect Gmail using OAuth credentials to send review emails.
• Configuration required: RSS feed URLs, keyword lists, minimum score, OpenRouter model, candidate profile, and the review email address before activating the schedule.