n8n Workflow: Gemini Interview Research Dossier from RSS

Turn company + role inputs into a Gemini-generated interview research dossier—automatically

This n8n workflow creates a printable “PDF-style” HTML interview dossier for any target role. It collects your inputs via an n8n Form, discovers the company domain, gathers website and news evidence (Google News RSS + Hacker News), then uses Google Gemini to synthesize a structured interview packet with charts, diagrams, and clickable citations.

What this workflow does

• Collects inputs: An n8n Form submission accepts company name, optional website URL, target role, and optional job description.
• Finds and enriches the company: Uses Clearbit Autocomplete to auto-discover the company domain (or falls back to the provided URL). It also generates a logo and website screenshot URLs using Clearbit Logo and WordPress MShots.
• Scrapes and sources evidence: Scrapes company website text via Jina Reader, fetches recent headlines from Google News RSS, and pulls related threads from Hacker News using the Hacker News Algolia API.
• Builds a research context with source URLs: Aggregates scraped content into a single context including URLs for news items and discussion threads.
• Generates an interview dossier: Sends context to Google Gemini to produce a JSON interview dossier containing ratings, key metrics, a Mermaid ecosystem diagram, and a verified evidence log.
• Renders a printable HTML report: Creates an HTML dossier with a QuickChart radar chart, a Mermaid.ink-rendered diagram, a website snapshot, and clickable citations—then displays it in the browser and generates an HTML file for download.

Use cases

• Prepare structured interview questions and evidence for a specific role at a specific company.
• SaaS interview panels: quickly generate consistent research dossiers from web + news sources.
• Automation engineers building AI-assisted hiring pipelines inside n8n.

Technical details

• Requires Google Gemini (PaLM) API credentials for the Google Gemini Chat Model node.
• Uses workflow nodes such as form trigger, code, merge, http request, and sticky note.
• Integrates Clearbit (Autocomplete, Logo), Jina Reader, Google News RSS, Hacker News Algolia API, QuickChart, and Mermaid.ink.