# Email Trending Show HN Stories

Source: https://openflow.run/ja/templates/email-trending-show-hn-stories/
Content language: en
Template revision: 9018120e802d4de0a097610157c565df858c0871

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Collect Show HN stories on the Hacker News front page and email their titles, ranks and links.

[Open Flow で使用](https://console.openflow.run/flows?importUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Foomol-lab%2Fawesome-workflow-templates%2F9018120e802d4de0a097610157c565df858c0871%2Fworkflows%2Femail-trending-show-hn-stories%2Ftemplates%2Femail-trending-show-hn-stories.openflow.json)

*   [Open Flow JSON](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oomol-lab/awesome-workflow-templates/9018120e802d4de0a097610157c565df858c0871/workflows/email-trending-show-hn-stories/templates/email-trending-show-hn-stories.openflow.json)
*   [n8n JSON](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oomol-lab/awesome-workflow-templates/9018120e802d4de0a097610157c565df858c0871/workflows/email-trending-show-hn-stories/templates/email-trending-show-hn-stories.n8n.json)

![Open Flow の Email Trending Show HN Stories ワークフロー](https://openflow.run/_astro/preview-light.CThwshqy_1fruhM.webp)

Get a daily email of Show HN stories currently on the Hacker News front page.

## Setup

In Open Flow connect ScrapingBee and an IMAP Mailbox configured to send through SMTP. Set the recipient in **Email the digest**; the connection determines the sender. In n8n configure SMTP credentials, sender and recipient in **Send Email**. Activate one format and adjust the schedule and timezone if needed.

## Behavior

Each day at 13:00 UTC the workflow reads the current Hacker News front page and emails the rank, title and link of every story whose title contains Show HN:. If there are no matching stories, it sends nothing. Open Flow uses ScrapingBee without JavaScript rendering; n8n reads the page directly. The service receives the public page URL, and its network access or extraction may differ from n8n. Page structure changes or a failed read can stop the run. Open Flow stops if the story list or required story fields are missing.

SMTP acceptance does not guarantee delivery. If a send fails or its outcome is uncertain, inspect the mailbox before retrying. No automatic write retry or cross-run deduplication is added. Open Flow runs at the minute boundary; n8n uses a fixed second within that minute.

Inspiration & credits

## Changes to the source

*   Set UTC explicitly and configure mail addresses instead of relying on empty sender and recipient fields.
*   Update the story link selector for the current Hacker News markup. Open Flow uses ScrapingBee to extract the current front page; n8n retains direct HTML extraction. Open Flow makes relative discussion links absolute; n8n retains the source relative links. The n8n condition checks the current extracted item.

Adapted from [Send trending Show HN to email](https://github.com/Zie619/n8n-workflows/blob/ae8cf6dc5b873cbb4f74587aa9180ed3a9f70682/workflows/Http/0494_HTTP_Htmlextract_Send_Webhook.json) in [Zie619/n8n-workflows](https://github.com/Zie619/n8n-workflows). The matching [n8n listing](https://n8n.io/workflows/225-send-trending-show-hn-to-email/) credits Jan Oberhauser. The original template does not state a separate license.

The collection’s [MIT notice](https://github.com/Zie619/n8n-workflows/blob/94007c1445d9258a7da116646b79473e7c7c3282/LICENSE) is pinned at a later revision. This is the collection notice at that revision; it does not establish a separate original template author’s license. Our changes are listed above; see [repository licensing](https://github.com/oomol-lab/awesome-workflow-templates/blob/9018120e802d4de0a097610157c565df858c0871/README.md#licensing).

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## 使用するアプリ

*   [**IMAP Mailbox**`generic_imap`](https://console.openflow.run/connections/generic_imap)
*   [**ScrapingBee**`scrapingbee`](https://console.openflow.run/connections/scrapingbee)

## 必要な設定

*   ScrapingBee connection
*   IMAP Mailbox connection configured for SMTP sending
*   Recipient email address

*   hacker news
*   email
*   news

[GitHub で見る](https://github.com/oomol-lab/awesome-workflow-templates/blob/9018120e802d4de0a097610157c565df858c0871/workflows/email-trending-show-hn-stories/README.md)