Pulls the trending Hacker News threads every morning, rewrites them as readable prose, and files the digest as a document.
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01Trigger
TriggerEvery day at 07:00 AM UTC, get the top 10 Hacker News stories in one request to https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=front_page&hitsPerPage=10, then fetch each thread in one request to https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/<id>, keeping its first 5 top-level comments.
02
Custom stepRewrite each thread as a short readable summary.
03Go
Google DocsAppend the digest to the Google Docs document id you choose in setup, skipping the run if today's digest is already there.
04Gm
GmailEmail you the digest with Gmail.
05
OutputFinish
Proposed workflow
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When
Every day at 07:00 AM UTC, get the top 10 Hacker News stories in one request to https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=front_page&hitsPerPage=10, then fetch each thread in one request to https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/<id>, keeping its first 5 top-level comments.
Then
Rewrite each thread as a short readable summary.
Append the digest to the Google Docs document id you choose in setup, skipping the run if today's digest is already there.
Email you the digest with Gmail.
Before you publish
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