Parse Y Combinator News Page to Excel & Email
Scrapes Hacker News titles and URLs from Y Combinator page, formats into a dated Excel spreadsheet, and emails the file automatically.
This workflow automates the extraction of news data from the Y Combinator Hacker News page (https://news.ycombinator.com/). It begins with a manual trigger, fetches the HTML content via HTTP Request, and uses HTML Extract to pull out story titles and URLs using specific CSS selectors (.storylink). The data is then processed with Item Lists nodes to handle arrays and split fields properly, creating a structured list.
Next, it generates an Excel (.xls) file using the Spreadsheet File node, featur
- Platform
- n8n
- Category
- Finance
- Price
- $12.99
- Creator
- QualityWorkflows
- ycombinator
- hacker news
- web scraping
- data extraction
- html extract
- excel spreadsheet
- email automation
- news monitoring
- item lists
- finance news
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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