Developer & DevOps

Post yesterday's RSS feed articles to Slack daily

6 nodes 284 158 Scheduled trigger
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Workflow Description

Automated workflow that retrieves RSS feed items published yesterday, filters them by date, and delivers them to Slack. Keeps your team updated with fresh content on a daily schedule without manual intervention or monitoring.

How it works

  1. 1.Schedule the automation to run automatically at a specific time each day using cron
  2. 2.Read RSS feed items and calculate yesterday's date programmatically
  3. 3.Filter articles matching yesterday's publication date
  4. 4.Format a clean message with article title, link, and description
  5. 5.Send filtered articles to your designated Slack channel

Use cases

  • Monitor DevOps, security, and development news from trusted sources daily
  • Keep engineering teams informed about latest technical updates with scheduled alerts
  • Distribute curated content to team members without manual review overhead

Requirements

  • Active Slack workspace with permissions to post messages to channels
  • Valid RSS feed URL containing regularly updated content
  • Timezone settings configured correctly for accurate date calculation

Service Value

Ready-made workflow template for automation delivery and service execution.

Apps Used

Schedule Rss Feed Read Slack

Details

Trigger Scheduled trigger
Nodes 6
Apps 3
Views 284
Downloads 158

How to Use

  1. 1.Click "Download Template"
  2. 2.Open your n8n dashboard
  3. 3.Go to Workflows > Import from File
  4. 4.Select downloaded file and configure credentials

Nodes Used (6)

Build our message

Function

#1

Every Morning

Cron

#2

Get Yesterdays Date

Date Time

#3

Get the RSS Feed

Rss Feed Read

#4

If it was published after yesterday

If

#5

Post to Slack

Slack

#6