Send a daily AI news digest from Hacker News with OpenRouter GPT-5 and Telegram
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What this workflow does
This AI workflow has 19 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day). Along the way it connects OpenRouter Chat Model and Telegram.
How it runs
Trigger: On a schedule (every day).
- HTTP Request: calls an HTTP API
- Split Out: splits a list into separate items
- Filter: keeps only the items that match a condition
- Limit: keeps the first few items
- Guard Empty (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- If: checks a condition and branches into true / false
- Loop Over Items (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
- Notify No News (Telegram): uses Telegram
- Collect Articles (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Scrape Article URL (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
…plus 5 more steps. See the full node list below.
Services it uses
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)
- Filter
n8n-nodes-base.filter - Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)
n8n-nodes-base.splitInBatches - HTTP Request
n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest - Markdown
n8n-nodes-base.markdown - Schedule Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger - Split Out
n8n-nodes-base.splitOut - Limit
n8n-nodes-base.limit - Edit Fields (Set)
n8n-nodes-base.set - Basic LLM Chain
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainLlm - Code
n8n-nodes-base.code - OpenRouter Chat Model
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenRouter - Structured Output Parser
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.outputParserStructured - If
n8n-nodes-base.if - Telegram
n8n-nodes-base.telegram
From the author
Quick overview This workflow runs daily to fetch the latest AI stories from Hacker News (Algolia API), scrape and convert each article to text, summarize them in Russian using OpenRouter (GPT-5 with GPT-4 fallback), and send a formatted digest to a Telegram…