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Analyze food ingredients from Telegram photos using Gemini and Airtable

Ready for 3.0

by Ehsan ✓ · 378 views · created 2025-11-23 · Personal Productivity, AI Summarization

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 13 nodes and runs on Telegram events (message). Along the way it connects OpenAI Chat Model, Telegram, Airtable and Google Gemini Chat Model.

How it runs

Trigger: On Telegram events (message).

  1. Watchlist (Airtable): search
  2. Preferences (Airtable): search
  3. Data Aggregation (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  4. Get a file (Telegram): work with file
  5. AI OCR Agent (AI Agent): runs an AI agent, with model: OpenAI Chat Model
  6. AI Agent: runs an AI agent, with model: Google Gemini Chat Model
  7. JSON Parse & Routing (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  8. Send a text message (Telegram): uses Telegram
  9. Create a record (Airtable): create

Services it uses

OpenAI Chat ModelTelegramAirtableGoogle Gemini Chat Model

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (8)

From the author

Analyze food ingredients from Telegram photos using Gemini and Airtable 🛡️ Personal Ingredient Bodyguard Turn your Telegram bot into an intelligent food safety scanner. This workflow analyzes photos of ingredient labels sent via Telegram, extracts the text…

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