n8n Workflow: Email New Article Digests via Gaffa & SMTP

Get a clean HTML email digest whenever a page publishes something new

This n8n workflow checks a chosen webpage on a schedule, extracts the article list using Gaffa, filters out URLs you’ve already seen, and emails you an HTML digest of newly found articles via SMTP.

What this workflow does

• Runs every hour using an n8n Schedule Trigger.
• Sets the target page URL and the CSS selector that contains the article list.
• Uses the Gaffa community node (@gaffa-dev/n8n-nodes-gaffa) to load the page in a real browser and extract title, URL, and date/age from the selected elements.
• Splits the extracted list into individual items.
• Filters out duplicates by comparing article URLs against workflow static data (so previously processed links won’t be emailed again).
• Builds one HTML digest containing only the new articles and sends it using SMTP.

Use cases

• Monitor a blog, changelog, or news page and get a digest email instead of manually checking.
• For SaaS teams: surface new documentation/articles to internal stakeholders automatically.
• For automation engineers: reuse the Gaffa extraction + URL dedupe pattern for other publish-list pages.

Technical details

• Nodes / components: set, code, split out, email send, sticky note, schedule trigger.
• Gaffa integration: install @gaffa-dev/n8n-nodes-gaffa and add a Gaffa API key credential from gaffa.dev.
• Email delivery: configure an SMTP email credential and set the From and To addresses in the email step.
• Configuration: update the page URL + CSS selector, then adjust the schedule interval to match your checking frequency.

Activate the workflow and start receiving new article digests automatically.