AI FT.com News Summarizer Agent (Gemini & Outlook)

Unlock Daily Financial Insights with this AI Agent

This AI Agent automates the daily collection, extraction, and AI-driven summarization of financial news directly from FT.com. It leverages Google Gemini to understand and condense key articles, headlines, and editor's picks into a structured HTML email. The agent then dispatches this concise market overview via Microsoft Outlook, ensuring you start your day with the essential financial intelligence needed for informed decision-making.

This 'Financial News Recap Workflow' is designed to run on a schedule, typically early in the morning, to provide timely updates.

Key Features & Benefits

• Automated News Gathering: Fetches the latest financial news daily from FT.com using an HTTP Request node.
• Precise Content Extraction: Employs CSS selectors to parse and isolate specific sections like headlines, editor's picks, top stories, and other custom-defined content areas from the FT.com webpage. (Note: These selectors are specific to FT.com's structure at the time of creation and may require updates if the site's layout changes.)
• AI-Powered Summarization Ability: Utilizes a Google Gemini Chat Model, acting as an intelligent agent, to generate a well-structured HTML summary. The AI is specifically prompted to synthesize the news into a format that helps investors get a clear market view and make better choices.
• Scheduled Delivery: Activates at a user-defined time (default 7:00 AM) via the Schedule Trigger, ensuring timely delivery of news summaries.
• Automated Email Dispatch: Seamlessly sends the HTML-formatted news digest using Microsoft Outlook to specified recipients.
• Time Efficiency: Drastically reduces manual effort in browsing, collecting, and summarizing financial news, providing a quick, digestible overview.
• Actionable Intelligence: Delivers curated and summarized insights directly to your inbox, helping you and your team stay ahead of market trends and make data-driven decisions.

• An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted).
• Google AI API Key (for Gemini models, often configured in n8n as a 'Google PaLM API' credential type).
• Microsoft Outlook OAuth2 credentials configured in your n8n instance for sending emails.
• Internet access for the n8n instance to fetch news from FT.com.

1. Download the n8n workflow JSON file.
2. Import the workflow into your n8n instance.
3. Configure the 'Schedule Trigger' node to your preferred daily delivery time (default is 7:00 AM).
4. Review the 'Get financial news online' node. The default URL is https://www.ft.com/. The CSS selectors in the 'Extract specific content' node are tailored for FT.com's structure as of the workflow's creation. If FT.com changes its website layout, these selectors may need to be updated for accurate content extraction.
5. In the 'Google Gemini Chat Model' node, select or create your Google API credentials that provide access to Gemini models.
6. Review the 'Gather the elements' (Set) node. It's configured to aggregate extracted content from FT.com. If you see template references to other sources (e.g., 'Yahoo news'), these might be remnants or require additional workflow branches if you intend to use them. For this workflow's core function, ensure it correctly processes data from the 'Extract specific content' node feeding into it.
7. Inspect the 'AI Agent' node. You can customize the systemMessage here to tailor the AI's summarization style, tone, or specific points of focus (e.g., focus on specific sectors, sentiment analysis).
8. Configure the 'Send the summary by e-mail' (Microsoft Outlook) node: set up your Outlook credentials and specify the recipient email address(es) in the 'To Recipients' field.
9. Test the workflow by running it manually to ensure all nodes are configured correctly and the email is generated and sent as expected.
10. Activate the workflow to enable scheduled execution.