Developer & DevOps
Post yesterday's RSS feed articles to Slack daily
6 nodes
284
158
Scheduled trigger
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.Schedule the automation to run automatically at a specific time each day using cron
- 2.Read RSS feed items and calculate yesterday's date programmatically
- 3.Filter articles matching yesterday's publication date
- 4.Format a clean message with article title, link, and description
- 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.Click "Download Template"
- 2.Open your n8n dashboard
- 3.Go to Workflows > Import from File
- 4.Select downloaded file and configure credentials
Nodes Used (6)
Build our message
Function
Every Morning
Cron
Get Yesterdays Date
Date Time
Get the RSS Feed
Rss Feed Read
If it was published after yesterday
If
Post to Slack
Slack