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Discord community managers want fresh, relevant news in their channels every week but have no time to manually curate it. This AI automation handles the full pipeline from sourcing to summarising to posting, and freelancers can sell it as a recurring managed service.

What This Automation Does

Pulls the top 3 articles per topic from Google News every Monday morning using a live search query
Scrapes each article's full content and passes the cleaned text to Claude for summarisation
Claude writes a structured digest entry per topic, including source name, date, URL, and a concise 2-3 sentence summary
Splits the completed digest into Discord-safe message chunks and posts them sequentially with an intro and closing message

Tools Used

n8n
Claude
SerpAPI
Firecrawl
Discord
NocoDB

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How To Build It

Connect NocoDB to supply watch topics

A NocoDB table acts as the topic source, so the client can add, edit, or remove keywords without touching the automation itself, keeping scope clean and updates self-serve.

Query Google News for each topic

SerpAPI fetches the top 3 current news results per topic on a Monday morning schedule, returning article titles and URLs that are fresh as of that morning's run.

Scrape and clean each article

Firecrawl visits each article URL and extracts the readable body text as markdown, stripping navigation and ads so Claude only receives the substantive content for summarisation.

Generate structured digest entries with Claude

Claude receives the cleaned article text for each topic and returns a formatted entry containing the media outlet name, publication date, source URL, and a 2-3 sentence summary written in the client's preferred language.

Post chunked digest messages to Discord

All topic entries are aggregated, split into chunks under Discord's 2000-character message limit, then posted in sequence with an opening introduction message and a closing conclusion to give the digest a polished, editorial feel.

Pitfalls

Firecrawl is a community node and cannot run on n8n Cloud, so clients must be onboarded to a self-hosted n8n instance or you need to manage the infrastructure yourself, which adds scope to the retainer.
SerpAPI has monthly query limits, and if a client table grows to 20+ topics the workflow can burn through credits quickly, so usage caps and overage handling need to be agreed upfront.
Claude's summaries can drift in tone or language consistency across topics if the prompt is not tightly structured, especially when articles vary widely in quality, so prompt testing across edge-case sources before delivery is essential.

FAQ

Can I build this without coding?

Mostly yes. The bulk of the workflow is visual configuration, but a small code step handles message chunking to respect Discord's character limit. Basic JavaScript familiarity is enough to read and adapt it, and the logic is straightforward enough to learn in a sitting.

How long does it take?

A first build with one client's topic list and Discord channel typically takes 4-6 hours including testing across multiple article types. Subsequent client setups from the same template drop to under 2 hours once you have the workflow dialled in.

What can I charge?

This workflow suits a monthly retainer model because it runs every week without client input. Pricing should factor in infrastructure hosting, SerpAPI usage, Claude API costs, and your ongoing maintenance time, with a fixed monthly fee covering all of it.

Which tool is required vs optional?

SerpAPI, Firecrawl, Claude, and Discord are all required for the core pipeline to function. NocoDB is the recommended topic manager but could be swapped for Google Sheets if a client prefers a simpler setup, at the cost of a small reconfiguration.

This is original DigiNo analysis. The underlying automation pattern is a community workflow template – view the original on n8n.