Aggregate financial regulatory news with ScrapeGraphAI, Slack alerts & Google Sheets

Daily Stock Regulatory News Aggregator with Compliance Alerts and Google Sheets Tracking 🎯 Target Audience - Compliance officers and regulatory teams - Financial services firms monitoring regulatory updates - Investment advisors tracking regulatory changes - Risk management professionals - Corporate legal departments - Stock traders and analysts monitoring regulatory news 🚀 Problem Statement Manually monitoring regulatory updates from multiple agencies (SEC, FINRA, ESMA) is time-consuming and error-prone. This template automates daily regulatory news monitoring, aggregates updates from major regulatory bodies, filters for recent announcements, and instantly alerts compliance teams to critical regulatory changes, enabling timely responses and maintaining regulatory compliance. 🔧 How it Works This workflow automatically monitors regulatory news daily, scrapes the latest updates from major regulatory agencies using AI-powered web scraping, filters for updates from the last 24 hours, and sends Slack alerts while logging all updates to Google Sheets for historical tracking. Key Components 1. Daily Schedule Trigger - Automatically runs the workflow every 24 hours to check for regulatory updates 2. Regulatory Sources Configuration - Defines the list of regulatory agencies and their URLs to monitor (SEC, FINRA, ESMA) 3. Batch Processing - Iterates through regulatory sources one at a time for reliable processing 4. AI-Powered Scraping - Uses ScrapeGraphAI to intelligently extract regulatory updates including title, summary, date, agency, and source URL 5. Data Flattening - Transforms scraped data structure into individual update records 6. Time Filtering - Filters updates to keep only those from the last 24 hours 7. Historical Tracking - Logs all filtered updates to Google Sheets for compliance records 8. Compliance Alerts - Sends Slack notifications to compliance teams when new regulatory updates are detected 💰 Key Features Automated Regulatory Monitoring - Daily Execution: Runs automatically every 24 hours without manual intervention - Multi-Agency Support: Monitors SEC, FINRA, and ESMA simultaneously - Error Handling: Gracefully handles scraping errors and continues processing other sources Smart Filtering - Time-Based Filtering: Automatically filters updates to show only those from the last 24 hours - Date Validation: Discards updates with unreadable or invalid dates - Recent Updates Focus: Ensures compliance teams only receive actionable, timely information Alert System - Compliance Alerts: Instant Slack notifications for new regulatory updates - Structured Data: Alerts include title, summary, date, agency, and source URL - Dedicated Channel: Posts to designated compliance alerts channel for team visibility 📊 Output Specifications The workflow generates and stores structured data including: | Output Type | Format | Description | Example | |-------------|--------|-------------|---------| | Regulatory Updates | JSON Object | Extracted regulatory update information | {"title": "SEC Announces New Rule", "date": "2024-01-15", "agency": "SEC"} | | Update History | Google Sheets | Historical regulatory update records with timestamps | Columns: Title, Summary, Date, Agency, Source URL, Scraped At | | Slack Alerts | Messages | Compliance notifications for new updates | "📢 New SEC update: Title - Summary" | | Error Logs | System Logs | Scraping error notifications | "❌ Error scraping FINRA updates" | 🛠️ Setup Instructions Estimated setup time: 15-20 minutes Prerequisites - n8n instance with community nodes enabled - ScrapeGraphAI API account and credentials - Google Sheets API access (OAuth2) - Slack workspace with API access - Google Sheets spreadsheet for regulatory update tracking Step-by-Step Configuration 1. Install Community Nodes bash Install ScrapeGraphAI community node npm install n8n-nodes-scrapegraphai 2. Configure ScrapeGraphAI Credentials - Navigate to Credentials in your n8n instance - Add new ScrapeGraphAI API credenti