Draft and publish Hacker News GitHub posts to X and LinkedIn with OpenAI and Airtable

by Redowan Ahmed Farhan ✓ · 21 views · created 2026-07-28 · Social Media, AI Chatbot

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 19 nodes and runs on a schedule (every 6 hours). Along the way it connects Airtable, LinkedIn, X (Formerly Twitter) and OpenAI and 1 more. It also calls news.ycombinator.com over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every 6 hours).

1. Crawl HN Home (HTTP Request): calls news.ycombinator.com
2. Extract Meta (Code): runs custom Python code
3. Search Item (Airtable): search
4. Merge: merges the data from its input branches
5. Filter Unposted Items (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
6. Visit GH Page (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
7. Convert HTML To Markdown (Markdown): converts between Markdown and HTML
8. Generate Content (OpenAI): uses OpenAI
9. Validate Generate Content (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
10. Filter: keeps only the items that match a condition

…plus 7 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

AirtableLinkedInX (Formerly Twitter)OpenAITelegram

HTTP calls to: news.ycombinator.com

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Nodes used (13)

• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code
• Markdownn8n-nodes-base.markdown
• Filtern8n-nodes-base.filter
• No Operation, do nothingn8n-nodes-base.noOp
• Airtablen8n-nodes-base.airtable
• LinkedInn8n-nodes-base.linkedIn
• X (Formerly Twitter)n8n-nodes-base.twitter
• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• Mergen8n-nodes-base.merge
• OpenAI@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi
• Telegramn8n-nodes-base.telegram
• Waitn8n-nodes-base.wait

From the author

Quick overview This workflow runs every 6 hours to find Hacker News front-page posts that link to GitHub repositories, generates Twitter/X and LinkedIn copy with OpenAI, queues and deduplicates drafts in Airtable, notifies you in Telegram for review, and then…

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