Hourly - n8n

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Here is Hourly - an automated n8n workflow that compiles & delivers hourly briefing digests straight to your inbox.

It fetches Live Weather Stats, Dad Jokes & Top Hacker News stories into a Styled Emailwhile logging activity to Google Sheets.

:gear: Workflow Components

# COMPONENTs DESCRIPTION NODEs
:one: Schedule Trigger Runs every hour automatically n8n Schedule Trigger
:two: OpenWeatherMap Fetches current weather data for your location OpenWeatherMap API
:three: Get Joke Retrieves a random dad joke via HTTP request icanhazdadjoke API
:four: Hacker News Fetches top 5 trending tech articles Hacker News API
:five: Merge Combines data streams from weather, joke, and news n8n Merge Node
:six: Format Payload Processes and structures all fetched data JavaScript Code
:seven: Compose Email Formats all data into a clean HTML email template n8n Set Node
:eight: Send Email Delivers the digest via Gmail Gmail API
:nine: Add Data Logs the activity to Google Sheets Google Sheets API
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Great share that does not require AI model :+1:

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Clean mix of APIs for a daily briefing, and no AI model needed keeps it fast and free to run. One thing worth adding: wrap each HTTP request node with a fallback (IF node checking for empty response) before the Merge, since a single API being down or rate limited otherwise breaks the whole digest for that hour. Also worth deduping the Hacker News stories against the previous run in Sheets so you are not seeing the same top story every hour it stays trending.

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