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Turn HR news into policy update tasks and a weekly Gmail digest with RSS, Google Drive, Gemini, and GPT-5.2

Ready for 3.0

by Paul Karrmann ✓ · 91 views · created 2026-01-30 · HR, AI RAG

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 21 nodes and runs on a schedule (every week at 09:00). Along the way it connects Google Drive, Google Gemini Chat Model, OpenAI Chat Model and Gmail.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every week at 09:00).

  1. Config (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 4 fields: newsUrl, userEmail, templatesFolderId…
  2. Read RSS feed (RSS Read): reads an RSS feed
  3. Keep last 7 days (Filter): keeps only the items that match a condition
  4. Cap articles (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  5. Fetch article page (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  6. Combine article data (Merge): merges the data from its input branches
  7. Extract article body (HTML): parses or builds HTML
  8. Normalize article fields (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 6 fields: article_id, title, link…
  9. Clean article text (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  10. Add id and excerpt (Code): runs custom JavaScript code

…plus 7 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

Google DriveGoogle Gemini Chat ModelOpenAI Chat ModelGmail

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (14)

From the author

HR Weekly Radar AI powered workflow that scans HR news via RSS, checks which of your policies or contract templates might need updates, and sends a weekly internal newsletter as HTML. What this template is for If you maintain an HR policy and template…

Excerpt from Paul Karrmann's description on n8n.io.

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