Generate Research-Backed SEO Content Briefs with OpenAI and Firecrawl to Google Docs

Who’s it for

Content/SEO teams who want a fast, consistent, research-driven brief for a copywriters from a single keyword—without manual review and analysis of the SERP (Google results).

How it works / What it does

• Form Trigger collects the keyword/topic and redirects to Google Drive Folder after the final node.
• FireCrawl Search & Scrape pulls the top 5 pages for the chosen keyword.
• AI Agent (with Think + OpenAI Chat Model) analyzes sources and generates an original Markdown brief.
• Markdown to JSON converts the Markdown into Google Docs batchUpdate requests (H1/H2/H3, lists, links, spacing). Then this is used in Update a document for updating the empty doc.
• Create a document + Update a document write a Google Doc titled “SEO Brief for ” and update the Google Doc in your target Drive folder.

How to set up

1. Add credentials: Firecrawl (Authorization header), OpenAI (Chat), Google Docs OAuth2.
2. Replace placeholders: {{APIKEY}}, {{googledrivefolderid}}, {{googledrivefolderurl}}.
3. Publish and open the Form URL to test.

Requirements

Firecrawl API key • OpenAI API key • Google account with access to the target Drive folder.

Resources

Google OAuth2 Credentials Setup - https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/credentials/google/oauth-generic/
Firecrawl API key - https://take.ms/lGcUp
OpenAI API key - https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/credentials/openai/