Draft weekly newsletter digests from RSS feeds with OpenAI and Kit

by Ziad Karim ✓ · 18 views · created 2026-07-27 · Social Media, Multimodal AI

What this workflow does

This workflow has 10 nodes and runs on a schedule (every week at 05:00). Along the way it connects Gmail. It also calls api.openai.com, api.kit.com and hooks.slack.com over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every week at 05:00).

1. Define Source Feeds (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
2. Fetch RSS Feeds (RSS Read): reads an RSS feed
3. Filter Recent Stories (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
4. Create AI Prompt (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
5. Post to OpenAI API (HTTP Request): calls api.openai.com (POST)
6. Build Email HTML (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
7. Post to Kit API (HTTP Request): calls api.kit.com (POST)
8. Send Draft via Gmail (Gmail): uses Gmail
9. Notify Slack (HTTP Request): calls hooks.slack.com (POST)

Services it uses

Gmail

HTTP calls to: api.openai.com, api.kit.com, hooks.slack.com

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Nodes used (5)

• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code
• RSS Readn8n-nodes-base.rssFeedRead
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• Gmailn8n-nodes-base.gmail

From the author

Quick overview This workflow runs every Monday, pulls stories from your chosen RSS feeds, uses OpenAI Chat Completions to draft a grouped HTML newsletter, and saves it as a draft broadcast in Kit (ConvertKit) or emails the draft via Gmail, with an optional…

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