{ "name": "Get a Slack alert for new Google News articles about your brand", "nodes": [ { "parameters": { "content": "## Get a Slack alert for new Google News articles about your brand\n\n### Who's it for\nPR, communications and marketing teams, founders and analysts who want every new news article about a brand, competitor or topic in Slack, once, without a media monitoring subscription.\n\n### How it works\n1. Every hour (or day) the Schedule Trigger starts the workflow.\n2. The **Settings** node holds your searches (one per line: brand names, `\"exact phrases\"`, `-excluded` words) and the country.\n3. The **Google News Scraper** Actor on Apify (`plainrows/google-news-scraper`) searches Google News, newest first, with **Only new articles** on: it remembers the articles it already delivered, so each run returns only new ones.\n4. A Code node groups the new articles by search and builds one message with title, publisher and link.\n5. The message is posted to Slack. No new article, no message.\n\n### Requirements\n- An Apify account (free plan available) and its API token.\n- A Slack workspace and the Slack credential in n8n.\n- The Apify node is the verified community node `@apify/n8n-nodes-apify` (available on n8n Cloud; on self-hosted n8n install it from Settings > Community nodes).\n\n### How to customize\n- Edit `searches`, `country` and `monitorName` in **Settings**. Use a new `monitorName` to start a fresh history.\n- Change the frequency in the Schedule Trigger; keep `timeRange` longer than the interval (`day` for an hourly or daily schedule).\n- Replace Slack with Gmail, Microsoft Teams or Google Sheets using the same fields.\n\nYou pay mainly for new articles, plus, from October 23, 2026, a small fee per page of results checked (see the Actor's Pricing tab); the node's *Maximum Cost per Run* caps every run.", "height": 760, "width": 520 }, "id": "c3467d52-c1de-5071-8a50-c6f0499930e5", "name": "Description", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "typeVersion": 1, "position": [ -660, -340 ] }, { "parameters": { "content": "### Setup\n1. Put your searches in `searches` (one per line) and set `country` in **Settings**.\n2. Add your Apify credential (free account at apify.com) to *Get new articles*.\n3. Connect Slack and pick the channel in *Post to Slack*.\n4. Run once by hand: the first run lists today's articles and seeds the memory.\n\n**Cost:** a price per new article (see the Actor's Pricing tab); the node caps each run with *Maximum Cost per Run*.", "height": 320, "width": 420, "color": 7 }, "id": "06db3560-2c59-5a29-921a-a299511d9cfa", "name": "Setup", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "typeVersion": 1, "position": [ 440, -340 ] }, { "parameters": { "rule": { "interval": [ { "field": "hours", "hoursInterval": 1 } ] } }, "id": "2e6016c4-7c91-5ce2-ac97-d742a20ec1e3", "name": "Every hour", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger", "typeVersion": 1.2, "position": [ 0, 120 ] }, { "parameters": { "assignments": { "assignments": [ { "id": "89ff73ee-7237-59a1-aebd-d53529ecdaf0", "name": "searches", "value": "OpenAI\n\"Anthropic\" Claude", "type": "string" }, { "id": "830f5bb6-4781-59c7-892e-46d4f054103a", "name": "country", "value": "US", "type": "string" }, { "id": "f9970bf8-e282-5470-b802-717d450d8ac0", "name": "monitorName", "value": "n8n-brand-news", "type": "string" } ] }, "options": {} }, "id": "27708d9f-4e11-5ed1-862a-2e1e8605835c", "name": "Settings", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.set", "typeVersion": 3.4, "position": [ 220, 120 ] }, { "parameters": { "resource": "Actors", "operation": "Run actor and get dataset", "actorId": "plainrows~google-news-scraper", "customBody": "={{ JSON.stringify({ queries: $json.searches.split('\\n').map((t) => t.trim()).filter(Boolean), country: $json.country, maxArticlesPerQuery: 50, timeRange: 'day', sortBy: 'date', onlyNewArticles: true, monitorName: $json.monitorName }) }}", "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1 }, "id": "68710b99-876c-5a10-a4a7-aa3953c1d9c4", "name": "Get new articles", "type": "@apify/n8n-nodes-apify.apify", "typeVersion": 1, "position": [ 440, 120 ], "credentials": { "apifyApi": { "id": "", "name": "Apify account" } } }, { "parameters": { "jsCode": "// One Slack message listing the new articles, grouped by search. No new article: no message.\nconst articles = $input.all().map((i) => i.json).filter((a) => a.found !== false);\nif (articles.length === 0) return [];\nconst bySearch = {};\nfor (const a of articles) (bySearch[a.searchQuery] ??= []).push(a);\nconst blocks = Object.entries(bySearch).map(([search, list]) => {\n const lines = list.slice(0, 15).map((a) => `• <${a.url}|${(a.title ?? '').replace(/[<>|]/g, ' ')}>${a.sourceName || a.sourceDomain ? ` (${a.sourceName ?? a.sourceDomain})` : ''}`);\n if (list.length > 15) lines.push(`…and ${list.length - 15} more`);\n return `*${search}*: ${list.length} new article${list.length > 1 ? 's' : ''}\\n${lines.join('\\n')}`;\n});\nreturn [{ json: { text: `:newspaper: *New articles in Google News*\\n\\n${blocks.join('\\n\\n')}`, newArticles: articles.length } }];" }, "id": "3262f0a9-a699-5da9-b7b3-164c04d90f1a", "name": "Build alert", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.code", "typeVersion": 2, "position": [ 660, 120 ] }, { "parameters": { "select": "channel", "channelId": { "__rl": true, "value": "", "mode": "list" }, "text": "={{ $json.text }}", "otherOptions": {} }, "id": "14f6f875-b023-510c-ab59-2401d9e69c35", "name": "Post to Slack", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.slack", "typeVersion": 2.3, "position": [ 880, 120 ], "credentials": { "slackApi": { "id": "", "name": "Slack account" } } } ], "connections": { "Every hour": { "main": [ [ { "node": "Settings", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] }, "Settings": { "main": [ [ { "node": "Get new articles", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] }, "Get new articles": { "main": [ [ { "node": "Build alert", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] }, "Build alert": { "main": [ [ { "node": "Post to Slack", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] } }, "pinData": {}, "settings": { "executionOrder": "v1" }, "meta": { "templateCredsSetupCompleted": false } }