AI Podcast Summarizer & Email Digest Agent

Unlock Effortless Podcast Insights with this AI Agent

This AI Agent automates your podcast consumption pipeline. It connects to the Taddy Podcast API to discover the top episodes in your chosen genre, downloads them, and intelligently crops the audio to a manageable segment for analysis. OpenAI's Whisper model then provides accurate transcription, followed by OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini, which generates concise, insightful summaries. Finally, the agent compiles these summaries into a clean HTML email digest and sends it via Gmail, keeping you updated on key topics and discussions with minimal effort.

Key Features & Benefits

• Automated Podcast Discovery: Fetches top podcast episodes daily for a specified genre using the Taddy Podcast API.
• Smart Audio Segmentation: Pre-processes podcast audio by cropping it to a defined segment (e.g., 8-24 minutes) for focused and cost-effective AI analysis.
• AI-Powered Transcription: Employs OpenAI Whisper for highly accurate transcription of the selected audio segments.
• AI-Generated Summaries: Leverages OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini to distill transcriptions into concise, actionable summaries highlighting key points.
• Customizable Content Feed: Tailor your daily digest by specifying podcast genres (e.g., TECHNOLOGY, NEWS, ARTS) and setting your preferred delivery schedule.
• Email Delivery: Sends a well-structured HTML email via Gmail, containing podcast names, episode titles, summaries, and direct audio links.
• Efficiency Boost: Drastically reduces time spent on manual podcast discovery and consumption, delivering distilled knowledge directly and freeing you up for core business tasks.

• An n8n instance (Cloud or self-hosted).
• Taddy API Key and User ID (free sign-up at taddy.org/signup/developers).
• OpenAI API Key with access to Whisper and a suitable GPT model (e.g., gpt-4o-mini).
• Gmail account credentials for n8n (OAuth2 recommended; see Google Workspace docs for creating credentials).

1. Download the n8n workflow JSON file.
2. Import the workflow into your n8n instance.
3. In the 'TaddyTopDaily' HTTP Request node, go to the 'Headers' tab and enter your Taddy User ID for the X-USER-ID parameter and your Taddy API Key for the X-API-KEY parameter.
4. Configure the 'Whisper Transcribe Audio' (HTTP Request) and 'Summarize Podcast' (OpenAI) nodes by selecting your pre-configured OpenAI API Key credentials in n8n.
5. In the 'Genre' Set node, update the 'Value' field for the genre variable with your desired podcast genre (e.g., TECHNOLOGY, NEWS, ARTS). Refer to api.taddy.org documentation for the full list of supported genres (they are often in PODCASTSERIES_GENRENAME format).
6. Configure the 'Gmail' node: select or create your Gmail credentials within n8n. Update the 'To Address' field with your recipient email address.
7. Adjust the 'Schedule' trigger node to your preferred time and frequency for receiving the daily email digest.
8. (Optional) Modify the 'Request Audio Crop' HTTP Request node's body parameters (convertOption) to adjust the startTime and endTime for podcast segment cropping if the default (00:08:00 to 00:24:00) doesn't suit your needs.
9. Activate the workflow.