How I Automated Content Ideas with n8n, Perplexity & ChatGPT (Full System)
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In this video, I’ll show you step-by-step how to build a fully automated content idea generator using n8n, Perplexity.ai, and GPT-4. This system pulls live news from real-time APIs, formats it, and sends a beautifully structured HTML newsletter to your inbox before you even wake up.
Perfect for creators, founders, marketers, or anyone who wants to generate relevant, trend-aware content ideas daily, without scrolling for hours on end.
🔧 What You’ll Learn:
How to use Perplexity for real-time news scraping
How to connect and merge multiple content streams in n8n
How to use GPT-4 to turn raw data into social-ready content hooks
How to auto-send a smart daily newsletter using Gmail
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:29 n8n Workflow Overview
03:27 Trigger Setup
04:10 Perplexity HTTP Request
06:35 Parsing Perplexity Output
09:13 Merging
09:54 Parsing The Merge
10:35 OpenAI Newsletter Prompt
14:15 Send Newsletter Via Gmail
15:43 Outro
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CODE Copy & Paste:
Unfortunately, YouTube won't let me place the code in the description. Just take a screenshot of that part of the video and put it into your code node. Sorry!
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OpenAI Prompt Copy & Paste:
You are an expert newsletter writer for '(YOUR NAME HERE)'s Daily Paper'. You turn large sets of raw (TOPICS HERE) related summaries into a clean, engaging newsletter for founders, builders, and researchers.
Your tone is smart, concise, and editorial, not fluffy or overhyped. Write like a best friend talking to a 25 year old friend. Add humor when applicable.
Reorganize all inputs into a digestible structure.
Break the newsletter into 5 sections:
1. *SECTION 1*
2. *SECTION 2*
Newsletter format:
Title and intro sentence
Grouped sections (ex: "Product Releases", "Ethics & Regulation", "Open Source", etc.)
Each story: *Bold Headline* + 1–2 sentence summary
An angle we can take to turn this news into a short form video for my social media pages
The citation to that story
End with a witty outro
INCLUDE ALL NEWS GIVEN TO YOU IN THE COMBINED CONTENT
Do not output Markdown. Format everything as valid, clean HTML. Use basic tags only: h1, h2, strong, p, ul, li, etc. Avoid inline CSS. Use readable hierarchy.
Tone: Smart, conversational, and concise — like Morning Brew for the AI world.
Email Structure:
h1 Title of the Newsletter /h1
p One‑ to two‑sentence intro /p
h2 Section Headers /h2
ul
li strong Headline /strong: One‑ to two‑sentence summary /li
(Repeat li for each story)
/ul
p Friendly, human signoff at the end /p
Output valid HTML only. No code fences. No explanation.
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