Send Pre-Meeting News to Gmail via Google Calendar & NewsAPI (n8n)

Send Today’s Pre-Meeting News to Gmail from Your Google Calendar (with NewsAPI) — Automatically

This n8n workflow automatically checks your Google Calendar for today’s “Meeting with …” / “Call with …” events, pulls relevant recent company news via NewsAPI, and emails an HTML digest to your recipients in Gmail before the workday begins (runs at 7:00 AM).

What this workflow does

• Runs daily at 7:00 AM to prepare a pre-meeting briefing.
• Fetches all events scheduled for today from your selected Google Calendar.
• Filters events by title: only events whose title starts with “Meeting with” or “Call with” continue; other events end with no further action.
• Extracts the company name from the meeting title and uses it as the query term.
• Queries NewsAPI for recent English articles, using your configured:
  • news age (days)
  • maximum article count
• Formats results into an HTML table suitable for email.
• Sends the digest via Gmail to the configured recipient list.

Use cases

• Prepare talking points before a sales or partnership call by reviewing recent coverage about the other company.
• For customer success and account teams, send internal “who we meet today” company news to stakeholders.
• SaaS operators can keep leaders informed with an automatic daily briefing tied directly to scheduled meetings.

Technical details

• Google Calendar OAuth: read today’s events from a chosen calendar.
• NewsAPI: search for recent English articles using configurable age and max results.
• Gmail OAuth: send the HTML-formatted digest to recipients (comma-separated).
• Workflow nodes used: if, set, code, no op, gmail, sticky note.

Tip: Ensure your calendar event titles follow the “Meeting with …” or “Call with …” pattern, or update the filter and company-name extraction logic to match your naming convention.