n8n RSS Topic Digest: Keyword Scoring & HTML Report

Get a ranked RSS keyword digest—with scoring, deduping, and an HTML report

This n8n workflow reads three configurable RSS/Atom feeds, filters and deduplicates recent articles, scores each headline against your keywords (with a freshness boost), and generates a downloadable HTML report—including ranked links and feed health/warnings.

What this workflow does

• Runs on demand or daily: manual trigger, or scheduled for 08:00 (Europe/Warsaw).
• Reads three RSS/Atom feeds: each item is labeled by source, with failures and empty feeds retained for reporting.
• Validates and cleans entries: checks links and publication dates, strips common tracking parameters, and keeps only items within your configured lookback window.
• Deduplicates stories: removes duplicates within the same run using normalized URL and title.
• Scores headlines: compares comma-separated topics against each headline, optionally excluding specified words; applies a freshness bonus and drops items below your minimum score.
• Builds a balanced shortlist: uses a per-publisher cap plus an overall story limit.
• Generates an HTML digest: ranked links, scoring reasons, and feed health/warnings, output as a downloadable HTML file.

Use cases

• SaaS operators tracking market news and product updates from multiple sources, without manually scanning feeds.
• Automation engineers building a repeatable content triage pipeline for internal reporting.
• Analysts monitoring specific topics (and excluding noise) to focus on the most relevant, recent headlines.

Technical details

• n8n nodes: rss feed read, set, code, merge, sticky note, convert to file.
• Key features: deduplication by normalized URL/title, keyword scoring with freshness boost, per-publisher cap, and HTML report generation.

Setup: update the three feed URLs, keywords/exclusions, lookback window, and limits in “Choose topics and limits.” Run manually once to download the HTML from the final step’s binary output.