Daily AI news digest from RSS: free n8n workflow template

By the serverserv team · 3 min read · Updated 28 October 2026

Stop scrolling through feeds. Every morning this workflow collects the last 24 hours from an RSS feed, asks an AI model to pick out what matters and emails you a short plain-text briefing with links.

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How it works

1. Every morning runs at 7:00 in your n8n time zone.
2. Read feed loads the RSS feed and Last 24 hours keeps only new items.
3. Join items turns up to 30 items into one list, and Summarise writes the briefing: the three most important items first, then one line for the rest.
4. Email digest sends it to you.

Nodes used: Schedule Trigger, RSS Read, Filter, Code, AI Agent, OpenAI Chat Model, Send Email.

What you need

• An RSS feed URL (most news sites, blogs and YouTube channels have one)
• An OpenAI API key, or another chat model
• An SMTP account to send the email

Set it up

1. Import the workflow and put your feed in Read feed. For more feeds, copy the node and connect each copy to Last 24 hours.
2. Add your API key in OpenAI Chat Model.
3. Add an SMTP credential in Email digest and set the addresses.
4. Run it once by hand to check the result, then activate it.

New to importing? In n8n, open a new workflow, then either paste the copied JSON onto the canvas or use the menu (the three dots) and choose Import from file. Credentials are never included, so you connect your own accounts after importing.

Ways to customise it

• Tell the system message about your industry so it ranks items by what matters to you.
• Post the digest to Slack or Telegram instead of email.
• Save every item to a Google Sheet to build an archive you can search.

Security notes

Feed content is untrusted. The model only summarises and the output goes only to you, so there is little risk, but do not give this agent tools that can act on what it reads.

Where to run it

Templates with webhooks or triggers need n8n running all the time and reachable over HTTPS. You can run n8n on your own computer to try it, but for real use it belongs on a server. serverserv n8n Hosting gives you n8n pre-installed on your own KVM server with HTTPS, from $14.99 a month with no execution limits, and we will set up your first workflow for you, this one included.

Questions

Sources

• n8n Docs: Export and import workflows
• n8n Docs: Self-hosting n8n