AI Financial News Digest Agent (Google Gemini & n8n)
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Overview
Overview
Stop drowning in financial news! This AI Agent is your personal market intelligence assistant, designed to save you hours of manual research. It automatically activates at your chosen time (default 7 AM), scours ft.com for the latest financial updates, and precisely extracts key headlines, top stories, and editor's picks. The real power comes from its AI-driven summarization capability: leveraging Google Gemini, it crafts a concise, well-structured HTML email that highlights critical market information, helping investors and business leaders make informed decisions, fast.
Key Features & Benefits
- Automated Daily Briefing: Schedules daily news fetching from ft.com, ensuring you always start your day informed.
- Intelligent Content Extraction: Uses customizable CSS selectors to pull only the most relevant financial news sections from web pages, cutting through the noise.
- AI-Powered Summarization: Employs Google Gemini to analyze and synthesize extracted news into an easy-to-digest summary, focusing on investor-relevant insights.
- Structured HTML Output: Delivers the summary in a clean, readable HTML format directly within an email body.
- Seamless Outlook Integration: Automatically dispatches the summarized news via Microsoft Outlook to you or your team.
- Time-Saving Automation: Drastically reduces the time spent on manual news aggregation and analysis, freeing you up for strategic tasks.
- Customizable & Extensible: Easily adapt the news source, extraction points, summarization prompts, and delivery methods within n8n.
Use Cases
- For B2C e-commerce founders: Stay ahead of market trends affecting consumer spending and supply chains with daily AI-summarized financial news, enabling proactive strategy adjustments.
- For B2B SaaS CTOs: Keep informed on tech sector financial health, competitor funding, and M&A activities to guide R&D investment and strategic partnerships.
- Solopreneurs & Investors: Receive a daily, digestible financial news brief to make informed investment decisions without spending hours on manual research.
- Heads of Automation: Implement a hands-off system for internal financial intelligence distribution, keeping leadership updated on market dynamics.
Prerequisites
- An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted).
- Google Gemini API Key (accessible via Google AI Studio or Vertex AI).
- Credentials for Microsoft Outlook (OAuth2 configured in n8n for sending emails).
- Web access for ft.com scraping (ensure the HTTP Request node can reach the site; respect ft.com's Terms of Service).
Setup Instructions
- Download the n8n workflow JSON file.
- Import the workflow into your n8n instance.
- Configure the 'Schedule Trigger' node for your desired daily execution time (default is 7:00 AM local to your n8n server).
- In the 'Get financial news online' (HTTP Request) node, verify the URL (default is ft.com). Ensure your n8n instance can access this URL. Be mindful of the website's terms of service regarding automated scraping.
- Review the 'Extract specific content' (HTML Extract) node. The CSS selectors are crucial and may need updates if ft.com's website structure changes. The node's notes indicate the intended content for each selector.
- In the 'Google Gemini Chat Model' node, select or add your Google Gemini API credentials.
- Examine the 'AI Agent' (Langchain Agent) node. The 'System Message' within its parameters guides Gemini's summarization style and focus. Customize this prompt to tailor the summary to your specific needs (e.g., brevity, focus areas, tone).
- Configure the 'Send the summary by e-mail' (Microsoft Outlook) node. Select your Microsoft Outlook credentials and enter the recipient email address(es) in the 'To Recipients' field.
- Test each node individually to ensure proper configuration and data flow.
- Activate the workflow.
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