🚀 Automate News Discovery & Publishing with GPT-4, Google Search API & Slack

🎯 Overview

Automated content publishing system that discovers industry news, transforms it into original articles using GPT-4, and publishes across multiple channels with SEO optimization and intelligent duplicate prevention.

✨ Key Features

• 🤖 Smart Query Generation - AI agent generates unique search queries while checking Google Sheets to avoid duplicates
• 🔍 News Discovery - Uses Google Custom Search API to find recent articles (last 7 days)
• 🧠 Content Intelligence - Processes search results and skips anti-bot protected sites automatically
• 📝 GPT-4 Article Generation - Creates professional, SEO-optimized news articles in Reuters/Bloomberg style
• 📢 Multi-Channel Publishing - Publishes to CMS with automatic Slack notifications
• 📊 Comprehensive Tracking - Logs all activity to Google Sheets for analytics and duplicate prevention

🔄 How It Works

1. ⏰ Scheduled Trigger runs every 8 hours to maintain consistent content flow
2. 🤖 AI Agent generates targeted search queries for your niche while checking historical data
3. 🔍 Google Search finds recent articles and extracts metadata (title, snippet, source)
4. 🛡️ Smart Content Handler bypasses sites with anti-bot protection, using search snippets instead
5. ⚡ GPT-4 Processing transforms snippets into comprehensive 2000+ word articles with proper formatting
6. 🚀 Publishing Pipeline formats content for CMS with SEO metadata and publishes automatically
7. 📱 Notification System sends detailed Slack updates with article metrics
8. 📈 Activity Logging tracks all published content to prevent future duplicates

🔧 Setup Requirements

📋 Prerequisites

• Google Custom Search API key and Search Engine ID
• OpenAI GPT-4 API access
• Google account for tracking spreadsheet
• Slack workspace for notifications
• CMS or website with API endpoint for publishing

🛠️ Step-by-Step Setup

Step 1: 🔎 Google Custom Search Configuration

1. Go to Google Custom Search Engine
2. Create a new search engine
3. Configure to search the entire web
4. Copy your Search Engine ID (cx parameter)
5. Get your API key from Google Cloud Console

Step 2: 📊 Google Sheets Template Setup

Create a Google Sheet with these required columns:

• Column A: timestamp - ISO date format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)
• Column B: query - The search query used
• Column C: title - Published article title
• Column D: url - Published article URL
• Column E: status - Publication status (success/failed)
• Column F: word_count - Final article word count

Template URL: Copy this Google Sheets template

Step 3: 🔑 Credential Configuration

Set up the following credentials in n8n:

1. 📊 Google Sheets API - OAuth2 connection to your Google account
2. 🤖 OpenAI API - Your GPT-4 API key
3. 📱 Slack Webhook - Webhook URL for your notification channel
4. 🔍 Custom Search API - Your Google Custom Search API key

Step 4: ⚙️ Workflow Customization

Modify these key parameters to fit your needs:

• 🎯 Search Topic: Edit the AI agent prompt to focus on your industry
• ⏰ Publishing Schedule: Adjust the cron trigger (default: every 8 hours)
• 📝 Article Length: Modify GPT-4 prompt for different word counts
• 🌐 CMS Endpoint: Update the publishing node with your website's API

🎨 Customization Options

🎯 Content Targeting

• Modify the AI agent's search query generation to focus on specific industries
• Adjust date restrictions (currently set to last 7 days)
• Change the number of search results processed per run

✍️ Article Style

• Customize GPT-4 prompts for different writing styles (formal, casual, technical)
• Adjust article length requirements
• Modify SEO optimization parameters

📡 Publishing Channels

• Add additional CMS endpoints for multi-site publishing
• Configure different notification channels (Discord, Teams, etc.)
• Set up social media auto-posting integration

💡 Use Cases

• 📰 Automated news websites
• 📝 Industry blog content generation
• 🔍 SEO content pipeline automation
• 📊 News aggregation and republishing
• 📈 Content marketing automation

🛠️ Technical Notes

• Workflow includes error handling for anti-bot protection
• Duplicate prevention through Google Sheets tracking
• Rate limiting considerations for API usage
• Automatic retry logic for failed requests

🆘 Support

For setup assistance or customization help, refer to the workflow's internal documentation nodes or contact the template creator.