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Scrape AI news from multiple sources to Markdown & Google Drive with RSS.app

Ready for 3.0

by Lucas Walter ✓ · 4,343 views · created 2025-06-27 · Market Research, Multimodal AI

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 workflow has 12 nodes and runs on a schedule (every 4 hours) (plus 2 other triggers). Along the way it connects Google Drive. It also calls rss.app and api.firecrawl.dev over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every 4 hours) (plus 2 other triggers).

  1. fetch_blog_open_ai_feed (HTTP Request): calls rss.app
  2. fetch_google_news_feed (HTTP Request): calls rss.app
  3. HTTP Request: calls rss.app
  4. split_blog_open_ai_items (Split Out): splits a list into separate items
  5. split_google_news_items (Split Out): splits a list into separate items
  6. Split Out: splits a list into separate items
  7. scrape_url (HTTP Request): calls api.firecrawl.dev (POST)
  8. create_markdown_file (Convert to File): converts data to a file (to text)
  9. upload_markdown (Google Drive): uses Google Drive

Services it uses

Google Drive

HTTP calls to: rss.app, api.firecrawl.dev

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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 (5)

From the author

AI News Scraping System This n8n workflow automates the process of pulling in breaking AI-related headlines from curated RSS feeds, scraping their full content, and saving readable Markdown versions directly to Google Drive. Use cases include: - Creating a…

Excerpt from Lucas Walter's description on n8n.io.

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