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.