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Google Sheets and Hacker News integration

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Create a new workflow and add the first step

In n8n, click the "Add workflow" button in the Workflows tab to create a new workflow. Add the starting point – a trigger on when your workflow should run: an app event, a schedule, a webhook call, another workflow, an AI chat, or a manual trigger. Sometimes, the HTTP Request node might already serve as your starting point.

Google Sheets and Hacker News integration: Create a new workflow and add the first step

Community insights using Qdrant, Python and Information Extractor

This n8n template is one of a 3-part series exploring use-cases for clustering vector embeddings: Survey Insights Customer Insights Community Insights This template demonstrates the Community Insights scenario where HN commments can be quickly grouped by similarity and an AI agent can generate insights on those groupings. With this workflow, Researchers or HN users can quickly breakdown community consensus on a particular topic and identify frequently mentioned positives and negatives. Sample Output: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQXaQU9XxsxnUIIeqmmf1PuYRuYtwviVXTv6Mz9Vo6_a4ty-XaJHSeZsptjWXS3wGGDG8Z4u16rvE7l/pubhtml How it works HN comments are imported via the Hacknews API node. Comments are then inserted into a Qdrant collection carefully tagged with the Hackernews API metadata. Comments are then fetched and are put through a clustering algorithm using the Python Code node. The Qdrant points are returned in clustered groups. Each group is looped to fetch the payloads of the points and feed them to the AI agent to summarise and generate insights for. The resulting insights and raw responses are then saved to the Google Spreadsheet for further analysis by the researcher or the HN user. Requirements Works best with lots of comments! Qdrant Vectorstore for storing embeddings. OpenAI account for embeddings and LLM. Customising the Template Adjust clustering parameters which make sense for your data. Adjust sentimentality setting if comments are overwhelmingly negative at times.

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Build your own Google Sheets and Hacker News integration

Create custom Google Sheets and Hacker News workflows by choosing triggers and actions. Nodes come with global operations and settings, as well as app-specific parameters that can be configured. You can also use the HTTP Request node to query data from any app or service with a REST API.

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Google Sheets

Google Sheets

Google Sheets is a web-based spreadsheet program offered by Google for free. It similar to Microsoft Excel, and can be accessed anywhere on any device, you only need a Google account.

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Hacker News

Hacker News is a website that shares news and insights on computer science and entrepreneurship. It has over 5 million readers monthly, because of its secure platform and authentic information.

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