仕事効率化

Email Hacker News Headlines as a Spreadsheet

Email the current Hacker News front-page titles and links in a spreadsheet attachment.

Setup

Connect Excel and OneDrive for the same Microsoft account and connect SendGrid with a verified sender. Configure Prepare the attachment HTTP capability to allow your connector transit storage host. Start Open Flow with the sender and recipient email addresses. Each run leaves a uniquely named workbook in the OneDrive root; remove it when no longer needed.

In n8n connect an SMTP account and configure the sender and recipient in Send email notification.

Behavior

The workflow reads the Hacker News front page and emails a spreadsheet of titles and links. Open Flow creates an XLSX workbook in OneDrive and sends it through SendGrid; n8n creates the attachment in memory and sends it through SMTP. A workbook creation or email send with an unknown outcome may have succeeded; inspect OneDrive or sent mail before retrying. The page and workbook must fit the execution limits.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

Update the source’s obsolete headline selector. Both formats produce XLSX rather than the source node’s default XLS; the rows and columns remain the same. Open Flow adds Excel, OneDrive and SendGrid connections.

Adapted from Email Hacker News front-page headlines in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.

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