Extract and decode Google News RSS URLs to clean article links
Ready for 3.0Ready 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 workflow has 10 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow”. It uses only n8n's built-in nodes. It also calls news.google.com over HTTP.
How it runs
Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow”.
- Reading Google News RSS (RSS Read): reads an RSS feed
- Limit: keeps the first few items
- Get encoded news URL (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
- Extract decoding keys (HTML): parses or builds HTML
- Map needed keys (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 3 fields: signature, timestamp, base64Str
- Prepare decoding variables (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Call decoding URL (HTTP Request): calls news.google.com (POST)
- Decoded url (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: google_news_url
- Aggregate: combines items into one
HTTP calls to: news.google.com
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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 (8)
- Manual Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.manualTrigger - Limit
n8n-nodes-base.limit - RSS Read
n8n-nodes-base.rssFeedRead - Edit Fields (Set)
n8n-nodes-base.set - HTTP Request
n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest - Code
n8n-nodes-base.code - HTML
n8n-nodes-base.html - Aggregate
n8n-nodes-base.aggregate
From the author
The workflow performs tasks that would normally require human intervention on Google News links, transforming the RSS feeds into data that can be used by an automated system like n8n, thus creating a solid foundation for further applications Who is this for?…