Summarize AI news from RSS, Reddit and HN with Claude to Discord and Slack

This n8n template builds an automated daily news digest powered by Claude AI.

It monitors RSS feeds, Reddit, and Hacker News, extracts full article text, analyzes each piece with AI, and delivers a polished briefing to Discord and Slack.

Stop drowning in newsletters -- Claude reads everything and surfaces only what matters, scored and ranked by importance.

Good to know

• Estimated cost is $0.03-0.10 per daily run using Claude Haiku + Sonnet. See Anthropic pricing for current rates.
• Works without a database out of the box. Optionally enable PostgreSQL for article history and cross-day deduplication.

How it works

• Schedule trigger fires daily and fetches articles from 10 configurable sources (RSS, Atom, Reddit JSON, Hacker News API)
• Articles are deduplicated by URL hash and fuzzy title matching
• Jina Reader extracts full article text for deeper analysis
• Claude Haiku scores each article 1-10 for importance, assigns categories, and writes a "why it matters" summary
• Claude Sonnet compiles the top articles into a structured digest with lead story, top stories, quick hits, and trend detection
• Formatted output is delivered to Discord (rich embeds) and Slack (Block Kit)

How to use

• Add your Anthropic API key as an n8n credential and set your Discord webhook URL in the config node -- that's the minimum to get running
• Edit the feed list in "Build feed source list" to add your own sources

Requirements

• Anthropic API key (setup guide)
• Discord webhook URL (setup guide) and/or Slack credential

Customizing this workflow

• Swap feed sources for any topic -- finance, gaming, research papers, industry news
• Adjust topic importance weights to prioritize what you care about
• Modify the Claude system prompt to change the digest's tone and style