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Automated Plagiarism Detection with Email Reports using RapidAPI & Google Sheets

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🚀 Automated Plagiarism Checker Using Rapid API & Google Sheet logging

📄 Description

This powerful no-code workflow automates plagiarism detection using Plagiarism Checker AI Powered. Users submit text through Google Sheets. The system checks for duplication using the API, sends a detailed HTML report via email, and logs the results — all without human intervention.

🔧 How the Workflow Works

Node Name Purpose
Trigger - New Row in Google Sheet Watches for new rows added to a connected Google Sheet.
Send Content to Plagiarism API Sends the user-submitted content to the Plagiarism Checker AI Powered API via POST.
Check API Response Success Verifies if the API responded successfully and returned results.
Extract Plagiarism Results Extracts matched results (if any) from the API response.
Generate HTML Plagiarism Report Creates a styled HTML report with similarity scores, links, and matched content.
Send Report to User via Email Sends the plagiarism report to the user using SMTP.
Mark Status: Success in Google Sheet Updates the Google Sheet with a "Success" status once the email is sent.
Send Failure Alert to IT If the API check fails, sends an alert email to IT for investigation.
Mark Status: Failed in Google Sheet Updates the Google Sheet with a "Failed" status if the process doesn’t complete successfully.

🧾 Google Sheet Configuration

✅ Required Columns:

Column Name Description
Content The text to be checked for plagiarism
Status Workflow result (Success / Failed)

Make sure these column headers exist in Row 1 of your Google Sheet.

📊 How to Connect Google Sheets to n8n

  1. Create a new Google Sheet.

  2. In n8n, use the Google Sheets Trigger node:

    • Set your document ID (from the sheet’s URL).
    • Specify the sheet name (e.g., Sheet1 or use gid=0).

  3. Use Google Sheets (service account) credential type for writing updates.

🔑 How to Get a RapidAPI Key for Plagiarism Checker AI Powered

  1. Go to Plagiarism Checker AI Powered API.
  2. Sign up or log in to RapidAPI.
  3. Subscribe to the free or paid plan.
  4. Copy your x-rapidapi-key and paste it into the Send Content to Plagiarism API node's header.

🧠 Use Cases

  • Educators verifying student submissions
  • Content marketers validating blog originality
  • Academic institutions enforcing anti-plagiarism policies
  • Editors reviewing freelance work

✅ Benefits

  • ⚙️ 100% Automated: Set once, run forever
  • 📨 Instant Reports: Plagiarism reports delivered via email
  • 📋 Easy Tracking: Status updates in Google Sheet
  • 🛡️ Alerts Built-in: Automatic error notification to IT
  • 🔗 Uses Plagiarism Checker AI Powered API to ensure accuracy and scalability

📘 Bonus Tips

  • Ensure you handle Google API scopes properly (Editor or Owner access).
  • Always test with small content first before scaling up.
  • Plagiarism Checker AI Powered API supports sentence-level matching and source URLs.