Curate Weekly News into HTML Newsletters

Generate a clean HTML newsletter from the top five unique news stories every week.

Who

Newsletter editors or community managers who curate industry roundups

You get

A scheduled HTML newsletter compiled from the top five Google News stories

You need

n8n · Bright Data · Anthropic Claude · Gmail

Steps

1. Import the original template, inactive

   Use the source page’s Use for free action to import template 16675, preserving all nodes, both Code scripts and connections. It uses the @brightdata/n8n-nodes-brightdata community node. Resolve installation and compatibility if your instance cannot recognize it before proceeding. This guide has not been execution-tested; successful import is not a successful run.

2. Configure the three credentials

   Select your Bright Data credential and available Web Unlocker zone in both Bright Data nodes (the template uses n8n_unlocker). In Compose Newsletter with Claude, select your Anthropic API credential and a Claude model actually available to your account; the preset does not establish availability. Connect Gmail OAuth2 credentials to the Gmail node.

3. Set the query and weekly schedule

   Extract Google News uses https://www.google.com/search?q=AI+automation&tbm=nws&gl=us&hl=en&brd_json=1. Change q, gl, hl and country for your topic and region, preserving the news and JSON response parameters. When Week Starts defaults to Monday every week. Adjust the cadence and check the instance timezone; leave scheduling inactive initially.

4. Check selection and loop connections

   Select Top 5 News Stories reads the input news array, excludes youtube.com/youtu.be, requires title and link, deduplicates exact titles and takes five results. The loop output of Loop Over News Stories connects to Fetch Article Content; the done output connects to Compile All Articles. Do not swap them.

5. Fetch and inspect cleaned content

   Fetch Article Content uses ={{ $json.link }} with markdown output. Sanitize Article Content keeps the final H1 section, removes Markdown links and images, retains lines longer than 50 characters and truncates to 2500 characters. It outputs title/link/source/content and returns to the loop. This can discard useful text: inspect every content value and stop on empty or materially incomplete text before sending.

6. Aggregate and retain the source prompts

   Compile All Articles uses aggregateAllItemData to produce data. Keep the two original system/messages instructions and expressions below in the Claude node. They use each article’s title/link/source/content to request HTML, two or three summary sentences per story and a Read more link.

   Execution prompt · Source text。options.system

   Copy prompt

   =You are a newsletter editor. You write concise, engaging newsletters from industry news articles.
   
   For each article you receive, write:
   - A bold headline (use the article title)
   - Two or three sentences summarizing the key points IN YOUR OWN WORDS, based on the article content provided
   - A "Read more" link using the article's link
   
   Format the whole thing as clean HTML ready to drop into an email: <h2> for the newsletter title at the top, <h3> for each headline, <p> for summaries, <a> for the links. Start with a short one-sentence intro before the first story.
   
   Output ONLY the HTML. No markdown code fences, no preamble, no explanation.

   Execution prompt · Source text。messages.values[0].content

   Copy prompt

   =Here are today's top 5 industry news articles. Write the newsletter.
   
   {{ JSON.stringify($json.data.map(a => ({ title: a.title, link: a.link, source: a.source, content: a.content }))) }}

7. Self-send and review before enabling

   Replace Gmail sendTo with your own test address. The template subject is Your AI Industry Brief; preserve message ={{ $json.content[0].text }}. Editorial acceptance check: run manually, inspect node outputs, all five stories, HTML and links, and confirm the body renders as HTML. Only then consider opted-in recipients and Monday scheduling. The original template has no human approval node.

=You are a newsletter editor. You write concise, engaging newsletters from industry news articles.

For each article you receive, write:
- A bold headline (use the article title)
- Two or three sentences summarizing the key points IN YOUR OWN WORDS, based on the article content provided
- A "Read more" link using the article's link

Format the whole thing as clean HTML ready to drop into an email: <h2> for the newsletter title at the top, <h3> for each headline, <p> for summaries, <a> for the links. Start with a short one-sentence intro before the first story.

Output ONLY the HTML. No markdown code fences, no preamble, no explanation.