How I Built an Custom AI News Listener

Steps by step guide

1. Create a Free Account on N8N 1:13

• Go to the N8N website.
• Sign up for a free account.

2. Set Up Automation Trigger 1:38

• Create a new automation in N8N.
• Import a trigger note to run the automation weekly.
• Set the trigger to execute every Friday at 6 a.m.

3. Connect to Tavaly 1:59

• Create a free account on Tavaly.
• Connect Tavaly to N8N following the provided instructions.

4. Configure News Search in Tavaly 2:34

• In Tavaly, set up a search query for news.
• Specify the search to find the top 10 news articles from the last week in the United States.

5. Pass Data to OpenAI Agent 3:04

• Use the AI agent (OpenAI) to process the news data from Tavaly.
• Instruct the AI to classify the news articles on a scale of 1 to 10 for relevance to coaching and consulting.

User Message (Prompt) code:

{{ 
    $json.results
    .map((item, i) => 
      `Article ${i + 1}: ${item.url || ''}\n` +
      `Title: ${(item.title || '').replace(/[\n\r]+/g, ' ')}\n` +
      `Content: ${(item.content || '').replace(/[\n\r]+/g, ' ').slice(0, 2000)}`
    )
    .join('\n\n')
}}

System Message:

You will be given 10 news from the week. Your job is to classify how interested they are to B2B Coaches and Consultants in scale of 1 to 10, and a very short paragraph with a TLDR summary.

6. Format AI Output 3:36

• Specify the desired output format for the AI:
  • Title of the news article
  • Embedded link to the article
  • Relevance score
  • Short summary of the article.

Structured Output Parser Code:

{
  "type": "array",
  "items": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "title": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The title of the news article."
      },
      "url": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The URL of the article."
      },
      "score": {
        "type": "number",
        "minimum": 1,
        "maximum": 10,
        "description": "Relevance score to B2B Coaches and Consultants (1 = not relevant, 10 = highly relevant)."
      },
      "summary": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "A short TLDR summary (1–3 sentences) of the article."
      }
    },
    "required": ["title", "url", "score", "summary"]
  }
}

7. Transform Data to HTML 4:09

Code I used:

// Find where the array is stored
let articles =
  Array.isArray($json) ? $json :
  Array.isArray($json.data) ? $json.data :
  Array.isArray($json.output) ? $json.output :
  Array.isArray($json.parsed) ? $json.parsed :
  Array.isArray($json.results) ? $json.results :
  [];

// Safety check
if (articles.length === 0) {
  // If no array found, wrap single object as array
  articles = [$json];
}

// Build HTML
let html = `
  <div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333;">
    <h2 style="color: #0073aa;">🗞 Weekly News Summary for B2B Coaches & Consultants</h2>
    <p>Here’s your weekly roundup of relevant industry articles, rated by AI for relevance (1–10).</p>
    <hr>
`;

for (const article of articles) {
  html += `
    <div style="margin-bottom: 20px;">
      <h3 style="margin: 5px 0;">
        <a href="${article.url || '#'}" style="color: #0073aa; text-decoration: none;">
          ${article.title || '(Untitled)'}
        </a>
      </h3>
      <p><strong>Relevance Score:</strong> ${article.score ?? 'N/A'}/10</p>
      <p>${article.summary || ''}</p>
    </div>
    <hr>
  `;
}

html += `
    <p style="font-size: 12px; color: #999;">This summary was auto-generated by n8n AI workflow.</p>
  </div>
`;

return [{ html }];

• Use a piece of code to convert the AI output into HTML format.
• Set it up to send the formatted data to your Gmail account.

8. Review Weekly Email 4:17

• Check your Gmail every Friday after 6 a.m. for the weekly news summary.