Daily Trending Show HN Emails from Hacker News
Fetches top Show HN submissions from Hacker News daily at 1 PM, formats them into a digest, and emails it to stay updated effortlessly.
This workflow automates the daily monitoring of Hacker News by triggering at 1 PM every day via a Cron node. It scrapes the front page using HTTP Request to fetch the HTML, then employs two HTML Extract nodes to pull out submission items (tr.athing elements) and key data like rank, title, and URL from each. An IF node filters specifically for 'Show HN' posts by checking if the title contains 'Show HN:'.
The filtered items are processed by a Function node, which formats them into a clean email text with rank, title, and URL for each. Finally, the Send Email node delivers this trending digest directly to your inbox. This setup ensures you never miss emerging projects and launches shared on Hacker News.
Benefits include significant time savings—no manual browsing required—and reliable daily updates tailored to Show HN content, ideal for developers, entrepreneurs, and marketers seeking inspiration. Use cases span personal productivity, startup scouting, or team newsletters in tech/marketing teams. Highly customizable for email recipients or additional filters.
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How to import this workflow into n8n
- 1Purchase or download the workflow to get the n8n workflow JSON file.
- 2In your n8n instance, open Workflows and choose "Import from File" (or paste the JSON with Ctrl+V on the canvas).
- 3Open each node marked with a credential warning and connect your own accounts and API keys.
- 4Run the workflow once manually to verify the data flow, then toggle it to Active.
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