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🔥 Daily Web Scraper & AI Summary with Firecrawl + Email Automation
Need to extract and summarize web content from a site that doesn’t have an API? This workflow runs daily to scrape a web page using Firecrawl, summarize the content with OpenAI, and send it directly to your email — fully automated.
Watch Full Video Step-by-step Tutorial Here:
https://www.youtube.com/@Automatewithmarc
🔧 How It Works
Daily Trigger – Starts the workflow every 24 hours.
Firecrawl Node – Crawls and extracts structured data from any web page you specify.
OpenAI Node (Optional) – Processes and summarizes the raw content using a prompt you control.
Gmail Node – Sends the final summary or content snapshot to your email inbox.
✅ Perfect For
Business analysts tracking daily market or industry news
Researchers and founders automating competitive intelligence
Anyone who wants web data delivered without coding or scraping scripts
🪜 Setup Instructions
Firecrawl API Key – Sign up and insert your key in the credentials.
Update Target URL – Edit the URL in the Firecrawl node to your desired site.
Customize the Prompt – Tailor the OpenAI prompt to extract the insights you want.
Connect Gmail – Add your Gmail credentials and set your recipient email.
🧰 Built With
Firecrawl (Web scraping without code)
OpenAI (For summarizing and insight extraction)
Gmail (Automated notifications)
n8n (Workflow automation engine)