Create daily AI news LinkedIn posts using OpenAI, NewsAPI, Gmail and Google Sheets

by Bhaskar Gorati ✓ · 52 views · created 2026-08-16 · Social Media, Multimodal AI

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 24 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day at 20:00). Along the way it connects OpenAI, LinkedIn, Google Sheets and Gmail. It also calls newsapi.org over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every day at 20:00).

1. Fetch AI News from NewsAPI (HTTP Request): calls newsapi.org
2. Extract Articles Array (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: articles
3. Split Articles (Split Out): splits a list into separate items
4. Limit: keeps the first few items
5. Loop Over Articles (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
6. Aggregate Summaries (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
7. Summarize Article with GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI): uses OpenAI
8. AI Article Selector (OpenAI): uses OpenAI
9. Add Summary to Article (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 3 fields: summary, title, url
10. Create LinkedIn Post (OpenAI): uses OpenAI

…plus 13 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

OpenAILinkedInGoogle SheetsGmail

HTTP calls to: newsapi.org

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Nodes used (13)

• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• Edit Fields (Set)n8n-nodes-base.set
• Split Outn8n-nodes-base.splitOut
• Limitn8n-nodes-base.limit
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code
• OpenAI@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.openAi
• Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)n8n-nodes-base.splitInBatches
• Ifn8n-nodes-base.if
• LinkedInn8n-nodes-base.linkedIn
• Google Sheetsn8n-nodes-base.googleSheets
• Gmailn8n-nodes-base.gmail
• Mergen8n-nodes-base.merge

From the author

Quick overview This workflow runs nightly, pulls AI news from NewsAPI, uses OpenAI to summarize and select a top story, generates a LinkedIn post and image, and emails you for approval before publishing to LinkedIn and logging the result to Google Sheets. How…

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