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Hacker News and Slack integration

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How to connect Hacker News and Slack

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.

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

Generate AI summaries from Hacker News to Slack with OpenRouter

Who's it for This template is for teams that want to stay updated on industry trends, tech news, or competitor mentions without manually browsing news sites. It's ideal for marketing, development, and research teams who use Slack as their central hub for automated, timely information. What it does / How it works This workflow runs on a daily schedule (default 9 AM), fetches the top articles from Hacker News for a specific keyword you define (e.g., 'AI'), and uses an AI agent with OpenRouter to generate a concise, 3-bullet point summary in Japanese for each article. The final formatted summary, including the article title, is then posted to a designated Slack channel. The entire process is guided by descriptive sticky notes on the canvas, explaining each configuration step. How to set up In the Configure Your Settings node, change the default keyword AI to your topic of interest and update the slack_channel to your target channel name. Click the OpenRouter Chat Model node and select your OpenRouter API key from the Credentials dropdown. If you haven't connected it yet, you will need to create a new credential. Click the Send Summary to Slack node and connect your Slack account using OAuth2 credentials. (Optional) Adjust the schedule in the Trigger Daily at 9 AM node to change how often the workflow runs. Activate the workflow. Requirements An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted). A Slack account and workspace. An OpenRouter API key stored in your n8n credentials. If self-hosting, ensure the LangChain nodes are enabled. How to customize the workflow Change the News Source: Replace the Hacker News node with an RSS Feed Read node or another news integration to pull articles from different sources. Modify the AI Prompt: In the Summarize Article with AI node, you can edit the system message to change the summary language, length, or tone. Use a Different AI Model: Swap the OpenRouter node for an OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other supported chat model. Track Multiple Keywords: Modify the workflow to loop through a list of keywords in the Configure Your Settings node to monitor several topics at once.

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Build your own Hacker News and Slack integration

Create custom Hacker News and Slack 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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Hacker News and Slack integration details

Hacker News

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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Slack

Slack

Slack is a powerful collaboration tool for businesses of all sizes. It brings team communication and collaboration into one place so you can get more work done, whether you belong to a large enterprise or a small business.

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    Slack node: Channel list not loading with "Issues: There was a problem loading the parameter options from server: "[object Object]""

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    I’m trying to use a Slack node for searching messages in a specific channel. Yet, when I add the option for channel selection, I get an error: *Issues: There was a problem loading the parameter options from server: “[ob…

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    Slack Trigger Node stopped working between two different channels

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    Describe the problem/error/question I have two separate workflows, each using a different Slack app integration: Staging channel → uses trigger-app 1 Production channel → uses trigger-app 2 The issue: The Slack…

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    Slack's channel history timestamp parameters

    Kyrylo

    Describe the problem I’m trying to get certain messages from a channel. The way I had it configured with HTTP node was by making a request to this URL: https://slack.com/api/conversations.history?channel={{ $(‘get_all_m…

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    Scalable Slack triggers set up

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    Describe the problem/error/question I have a Opt in option switched on in the Slack app, so tokens are rotating every 12 hours, but there is no way I found in n8n to make dynamik access tocken to be applied, so every 12…

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