N8N Self hosted Google Alerts Replacement

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.

N8N Self hosted IFTTT replacement

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.

Sidney feeling the heat today, he has melted.

Lately, I’ve been obsessed with this album—it’s been on repeat this morning. The melodies, the lyrics, the vibe… everything just clicks.

Here’s the album I’m talking about:

Larkin Poe, Bloom.

Let me know what you think! 🎧
Do you have any albums that you keep coming back to?

Started a new doodle sketchbook with some sticker inspired doodles.

Some robot sketches I’ve been working on in my sketchbook.

Work in progress sketch of our youngest dog.

Nearing the time for Advent of Code 2024 thinking of using Node NPM again this year.

Hopefully will complete more this year than before.

https://github.com/alastairhm/adventofcode

Having been a bit lazy in not updating my Hugo version since I started which was recently breaking one of my Github actions, I decided do do that.

This lead to an cascading update cycle.

• Updating Hugo version broke the theme I was using.
• Updating the theme broke the Tweet shortcode, no longer on Twitter so edited those post which referenced my old Twitter account.
• Updating the Hugo version, broke the Github Action which was building and uploaded to S3. This was due to newer versions of Hugo now having an “extended” and “with_deploy” versions.
• Raised a PR against the Github action to update to use the “with_deploy” version.

Still a couple of deprecated warning and fixing background and social icon links to sort out but at least now running against the latest version of Hugo.

Sketchbook Album

Trying to keep the Inktober mojo going.