Extract & Transform HackerNews Data to Google Docs using Gemini

This n8n workflow automates extracting trending posts from the HackerNews API, looping through each item to fetch full thread data via HTTP requests. It then leverages Google Gemini 2.0 Flash to generate human-readable summaries and insights from the raw discussions, enriching the content for better usability.

Finally, the transformed content is exported into a well-formatted Google Doc, ready for newsletters, blogs, or reports. Benefits include massive time savings on manual scraping and summarization, real-time trend monitoring, and scalable content generation.

Ideal for tech newsletter writers, content creators, startup founders, investors, researchers, and agencies. It surfaces community reactions, emerging trends, and key insights effortlessly, turning HN noise into actionable intelligence.