AI-powered news monitoring with Linkup, Airtable, and Slack notifications
Ready for 3.0Ready 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 workflow has 9 nodes and runs on a schedule (every 7 days at 17:00). Along the way it connects Airtable and Slack. It also calls api.linkup.so over HTTP.
How it runs
Trigger: On a schedule (every 7 days at 17:00).
- Set news parameters (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 2 fields: News topic(s), News from last x days
- Query Linkup for news (HTTP Request): calls api.linkup.so (POST)
- Split Out: splits a list into separate items
- Loop Over Items (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
- Aggregate: combines items into one
- Store one news (Airtable): create
- Notify in Slack (Slack): uses Slack
- Wait: waits 2 seconds
Services it uses
HTTP calls to: api.linkup.so
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 (9)
- Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)
n8n-nodes-base.splitInBatches - Wait
n8n-nodes-base.wait - Schedule Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger - HTTP Request
n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest - Edit Fields (Set)
n8n-nodes-base.set - Airtable
n8n-nodes-base.airtable - Slack
n8n-nodes-base.slack - Aggregate
n8n-nodes-base.aggregate - Split Out
n8n-nodes-base.splitOut
From the author
Quick overview Automatically searches the web for recent news on any topic using Linkup's AI search, extracts title, summary, date, and URL for each article, saves them as records in Airtable, and sends a Slack notification once the digest is ready for…