Send automated weekly news digest from Google News to Discord

📺 Full walkthrough video: https://youtu.be/QHvfykuSbF8

⚠️ Self-hosted only — This template uses a community node (Firecrawl) and cannot run on n8n Cloud.

Who it's for

This workflow is for community managers, SEO professionals, or team leads who want to deliver a curated, AI-written news digest to a Discord channel automatically — without manually browsing news sources every week.

How it works

1. A schedule trigger fires every Monday at 9am and fetches a list of watch topics from a NocoDB data table. 2. For each topic, the workflow queries Google News via SerpAPI and extracts the top 3 article URLs. 3. Each article is scraped using Firecrawl, and the raw markdown is cleaned before being passed to Claude Sonnet. 4. Claude writes a structured French-language digest entry per topic, with media name, date, URL, and a 2–3 sentence summary. 5. All topic digests are aggregated and split into Discord-safe chunks (under 2000 characters). 6. An intro message is sent to Discord first, then each chunk is sent in a loop, followed by a closing conclusion message.

How to set up

- [ ] Configure the Schedule Trigger with your desired run frequency - [ ] Connect NocoDB credentials and point the table node to your watch topics table - [ ] Add your SerpAPI API key to the Search Google News node - [ ] Add your Firecrawl API key to the Scrape Article Content node - [ ] Add your Anthropic credentials to the Claude Sonnet sub-node - [ ] Connect your Discord bot and set the correct server and channel IDs