Daily RSS AI News Digest to Telegram and Gmail with n8n

RSS feeds → deduplicate & filter → GPT-5 Mini summary → deliver to Telegram chat and Gmail inbox

Who

Operators or teams who need automated daily RSS aggregation pushed to messaging and email

You get

Every morning at 8 AM, fetch latest articles, generate a 5–8 story plain-text digest via AI, and send to Telegram and Gmail simultaneously

You need

n8n · telegram · gmail

Steps

1. Configure credentials and workflow variables

   Add credentials in n8n: OpenAI (ensure gpt-5-mini is available), Telegram Bot, and Gmail. Then open the 'Set Digest Configuration' node and replace feedUrls with your RSS source array, digestTopic with your topic, emailTo with the recipient address, telegramChatId with the target chat ID (use @get_id_bot), and maxArticles with your desired article limit.

2. Set schedule trigger and split RSS feeds

   The 'When Daily Digest Scheduled' node is set to trigger daily at 8:00 AM. Verify the timezone matches your needs. After 'Set Digest Configuration' outputs settings, 'Split Feed URLs' splits the feedUrls array into individual items for downstream fetching.

3. Fetch articles and filter

   'Fetch Articles from RSS' uses the expression `={{ $json.feedUrl }}` to read each feed. The node continues on error (onError=continueRegularOutput). Then 'Deduplicate by Article Link' removes duplicates by the link field; 'Limit to Newest Articles' keeps the first maxArticles items; 'Prepare Article Snippets' extracts title, link, published, and snippet (first 300 characters).

4. Aggregate articles and generate AI digest

   'Aggregate Article List' combines cleaned articles into an `articles` array. Then the 'Create Daily Digest' AI Agent calls 'OpenAI GPT-5 Mini' to produce the digest.

   Execution prompt · Source text。Create Daily Digest node text parameter (user message)

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   =Today is {{ $now.toFormat("cccc, MMMM d, yyyy") }}. Here are the latest articles as JSON:
   
   {{ JSON.stringify($json.articles) }}

   Execution prompt · Source text。Create Daily Digest node options.systemMessage parameter

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   =You are a sharp, concise newsletter editor writing a daily digest about {{ $('Set Digest Configuration').first().json.digestTopic }}.
   
   From the articles provided, pick the 5-8 most important and interesting stories. Skip duplicates, ads and low-value items.
   
   Format rules:
   - Start with a single-sentence overview of the day.
   - Then list each story: an emoji, a short bold-free headline, a 1-2 sentence summary in plain language, and the link on its own line.
   - Plain text only: no HTML tags, no markdown symbols like *, _, # or [].
   - Keep the whole digest under 3,500 characters so it fits in one Telegram message.
   - End with one line: "That's all for today — see you tomorrow!"

5. Send to Telegram and Gmail

   'Post Digest to Telegram' sends the digest text to the configured chatId with web page preview disabled. 'Send Digest via Gmail' emails the same plain-text digest to emailTo with a subject line that includes the current date.

You are an n8n workflow setup assistant. The user wants to recreate the 'Daily RSS AI Digest to Telegram + Gmail' template. First confirm they have: an n8n instance, OpenAI credentials (gpt-5-mini supported), a Telegram bot with chat ID, and Gmail credentials. Then guide them to import workflow.json or build manually, focusing on replacing variables in 'Set Digest Configuration' and binding credentials. Do not perform sends on behalf of the user.