A week of content ideas from your industry's news

Every Sunday, AI reads the week's industry news and posts 7 content ideas to your Slack channel.

Easy Saves ~3 hours/month Content & SocialBy Flowngn team

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How it works

Trigger: Schedule — Sundays at 9:00

Read your industry's news feed.
Keep the last 7 days of headlines.
AI suggests 7 posts with a hook and a format for each.
Post the ideas to your content channel.

Diagram

Trigger App Code AI

Code

JavaScript used in the Code step — already included in the template below.

This week's headlines · Code node

// Keeps the last 7 days of articles (max 25) as one block of text for the AI.
const WEEK = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;

const articles = $input.all()
  .map((item) => item.json)
  .filter((a) => Date.now() - new Date(a.isoDate || a.pubDate).getTime() < WEEK)
  .slice(0, 25)
  .map((a, i) => `${i + 1}. ${a.title}\n${(a.contentSnippet || "").slice(0, 200)}\n${a.link}`);

if (!articles.length) return [];
return [{ json: { articles: articles.join("\n\n") } }];

Build it

Pick your tool — same automation, step by step.

Copy and paste straight into an n8n canvas (Ctrl+V), or download and use Import from File. Then connect your own credentials and replace every YOUR_… placeholder. AI steps use a Claude model node — swap it for OpenAI, Gemini or Ollama if you prefer.

Workflow JSON

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