Summarize RSS, email, and YouTube content with OpenAI and Google Sheets

by Rahul Joshi ✓ · 43 views · created 2026-09-15 · Personal Productivity, AI Summarization

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 43 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day at 08:00) (plus 4 other triggers). Along the way it connects Slack, Telegram, Gmail and Google Sheets and 1 more.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every day at 08:00) (plus 4 other triggers).

1. Set RSS Feed URLs (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
2. Get Existing Links (Google Sheets): uses Google Sheets
3. Normalize Email Item (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
4. Is YouTube URL? (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
5. Read Master Log (All Entries) (Google Sheets): uses Google Sheets
6. Slack: uses Slack
7. Telegram: uses Telegram
8. RSS Feed Read (RSS Read): reads an RSS feed
9. Filter Empty Content (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false
10. Extract YouTube Video ID (Code): runs custom JavaScript code

…plus 23 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

SlackTelegramGmailGoogle SheetsOpenAI

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Nodes used (13)

• Error Triggern8n-nodes-base.errorTrigger
• Slackn8n-nodes-base.slack
• Telegramn8n-nodes-base.telegram
• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code
• RSS Readn8n-nodes-base.rssFeedRead
• Gmail Triggern8n-nodes-base.gmailTrigger
• Ifn8n-nodes-base.if
• No Operation, do nothingn8n-nodes-base.noOp
• Google Sheetsn8n-nodes-base.googleSheets
• OpenAI@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi
• Telegram Triggern8n-nodes-base.telegramTrigger
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest

From the author

Quick overview This workflow captures articles from RSS feeds and Gmail newsletters, filters duplicates with Google Sheets, checks relevance and generates summaries with OpenAI, then logs the results to a “Second Brain” Google Sheet and sends a Telegram…

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