Musings of an aging computer nerd hitting 0x32.
Zazzle Shop Prints, Tshirts and mugs
(c) Alastair Montgomery
Musings of an aging computer nerd hitting 0x32.
Zazzle Shop Prints, Tshirts and mugs
(c) Alastair Montgomery
I’ve been using Google alerts to get emails of news about various topics for a while. As I’m reducing my Google footprint this was one of the things I had trouble replacing, until now.
Using Brave Search API node in N8N I can now search for news on a topic and format it into a email digest.
Saved Workflow in Jason format.
Found N8N recently which is an open-source workflow automation tool that lets you connect various services and automate tasks.
Think IFTTT which you can host yourself locally.
I run it locally on my Debian Linux Server using this Docker compose file.
services:
n8n:
image: n8nio/n8n:latest
container_name: n8n
environment:
- GENERIC_TIMEZONE=Europe/Amsterdam
- NODE_ENV=production
- N8N_SECURE_COOKIE=false
ports:
- "5678:5678"
volumes:
- n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
n8n_data:
name: n8n_data
external: true
You can use it do automate all sort of tasks, I am currently testing it posting RSS feed updated to a Discord Server.