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Create weekly research brief PDFs with Brave Search, Firecrawl, Claude, PDF.co, Gmail and Google Drive

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by PDF.co · 8 views · created 2026-09-17 · Market Research, AI RAG

Unknown. This template uses community nodes we can't verify statically. Uses community nodes that can't be verified statically (unverified community packages are off by default in 3.0). Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 17 nodes and runs on a schedule (cron 0 7 * * MON). Along the way it connects Anthropic Chat Model, Google Drive, Gmail and Brave Search (community) and 2 more.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (cron 0 7 * * MON).

Set Brief Parameters (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 7 fields: topics_csv, results_per_topic, recipient_email…
Set Normalized Topics (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: topics
Split Topics Individually (Split Out): splits a list into separate items
Brave Search: uses Brave Search
Format Source Data (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
Extract with Firecrawl (Firecrawl): scrape
Clean Source Text (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
Combine Sources (Aggregate): combines items into one
Generate Research Brief (Basic LLM Chain): sends a prompt to an LLM, with model: Claude Sonnet Model; output parser: Parse Structure Output
Create HTML Brief (Code): runs custom JavaScript code

…plus 4 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

Anthropic Chat Model Google Drive GmailBrave Search (community)Firecrawl (community)Pdfco (community)

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Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

We can't fully verify this one: it relies on 3 community packages, and n8n 3.0 turns unverified community packages off by default (N8N_UNVERIFIED_PACKAGES_ENABLED=false).

Check that @brave/n8n-nodes-brave-search is verified or supports 3.0 (used in Brave Search Topics).
Check that @mendable/n8n-nodes-firecrawl is verified or supports 3.0 (used in Extract with Firecrawl).
Check that n8n-nodes-pdfco is verified or supports 3.0 (used in Generate PDF with PDF.co).

Nodes used (14)

Edit Fields (Set)n8n-nodes-base.set
Coden8n-nodes-base.code
Aggregaten8n-nodes-base.aggregate
Basic LLM Chain@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainLlm
Anthropic Chat Model@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatAnthropic
Structured Output Parser@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.outputParserStructured
Google Driven8n-nodes-base.googleDrive
Gmailn8n-nodes-base.gmail
Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
Split Outn8n-nodes-base.splitOut
Brave Search@brave/n8n-nodes-brave-search.braveSearch
Firecrawl@mendable/n8n-nodes-firecrawl.firecrawl
PDFco Apin8n-nodes-pdfco.PDFco Api
HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest

From the author

Quick overview This workflow runs weekly, searches selected topics with Brave Search, scrapes the top results with Firecrawl, and uses Anthropic Claude to write a cited weekly research brief. It formats the brief as HTML, converts it to a PDF with PDF.co,…
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Create weekly research brief PDFs with Brave Search, Firecrawl, Claude, PDF.co, Gmail and Google Drive

What this workflow does

How it runs

Services it uses

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nodes used (14)

From the author

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