Extract and structure Hacker News job posts with Gemini AI and save to Airtable

by Puspak · 761 views · created 2025-05-21 · HR, AI Summarization

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 16 nodes and runs on a schedule (every 2 minutes). Along the way it connects Airtable and Google Gemini Chat Model. It also calls uj5wyc0l7x-dsn.algolia.net over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every 2 minutes).

1. Search for Who is hiring posts (HTTP Request): calls uj5wyc0l7x-dsn.algolia.net (POST)
2. Split Out: splits a list into separate items
3. Get relevant data (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 4 fields: title, createdAt, updatedAt…
4. Get latest post (Filter): keeps only the items that match a condition
5. HN API: Get Main Post (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
6. Split Out: splits a list into separate items
7. HI API: Get the individual job post (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
8. Extract text (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: text
9. Clean text (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
10. Limit: keeps the first few items

…plus 3 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

AirtableGoogle Gemini Chat Model

HTTP calls to: uj5wyc0l7x-dsn.algolia.net

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Nodes used (11)

• Split Outn8n-nodes-base.splitOut
• Structured Output Parser@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.outputParserStructured
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• Edit Fields (Set)n8n-nodes-base.set
• Filtern8n-nodes-base.filter
• Basic LLM Chain@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainLlm
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code
• Limitn8n-nodes-base.limit
• Airtablen8n-nodes-base.airtable
• Google Gemini Chat Model@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatGoogleGemini
• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger

From the author

Workflow Overview This workflow automatically fetches the latest "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" posts from Hacker News, extracts individual job listings, cleans the raw text, converts them into structured job listings using Google Gemini AI, and saves them into…

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