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Summarise Slack channel activity for weekly reports with AI

Ready for 3.0

by Jimleuk ✓ · 8,532 views · created 2025-05-10 · Document Extraction, AI Summarization

Ready 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 AI workflow has 40 nodes and runs on a schedule (cron 0 6 * * 1) (plus 1 other trigger). Along the way it connects Slack and Google Gemini Chat Model.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (cron 0 6 * * 1) (plus 1 other trigger).

  1. Get Last Week's Messages (Slack): history (channel)
  2. Switch: routes items into 3 branches
  3. Group By User (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  4. Get User (Slack): work with user
  5. Split Out: splits a list into separate items
  6. Map Reply UserIds (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: replyUsers
  7. Split Out: splits a list into separate items
  8. Messages to Items (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  9. Loop Over Items (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
  10. Has ReplyUsers? (If): checks a condition and branches into true / false

…plus 24 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

SlackGoogle Gemini Chat Model

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 (15)

From the author

This n8n template lets you summarize team member activity on Slack for the past week and generates a report. For remote teams, chat is a crucial communication tool to ensure work gets done but with so many conversations happening at once and in multiple…

Excerpt from Jimleuk's description on n8n.io.

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