Automate News Tracking and Content Updates with AI

Introduction

In the age of information overload, manually tracking relevant news has become nearly impossible. This guide introduces an AI‑powered news automation workflow built with n8n, BrowserAct, and Gemini AI. It automatically collects, filters, and delivers high‑relevance news updates in real time — straight to Telegram or your preferred workspace. Perfect for marketers, journalists, researchers, and developers, the workflow helps teams save time, reduce noise, and make faster, data‑driven decisions.

Detail

Every day, brands, journalists, and analysts are flooded with information — hundreds of headlines, updates, and notifications fighting for attention. Manually tracking what’s relevant has become almost impossible. Important stories slip through, reporting gets delayed, and opportunities are missed.

This n8n template helps you stay up-to-date by automatically filtering news and sending relevant articles to Telegram using an AI Agent.

Steps to Take

Create BrowserAct Workflow: Set up the News Content Marketing Automation template in your BrowserAct account.
Add BrowserAct Token: Connect your BrowserAct account credentials to the HTTP Request inside Run Node.
Update Workflow ID: Change the workflow_id value in the HTTP Request inside Run Node to match the one from your BrowserAct workflow.
Connect Gemini: Add your Google Gemini credentials to the AI Agent node.
Configure Telegram: Connect your Telegram account and add your Channel ID to the Send a News Photo To Telegram node.

Requirements

BrowserAct API account
BrowserAct “News Content Marketing Automation” Template
Gemini account
Telegram credentials

How it works

The workflow is triggered automatically on a schedule, but you can also manually run it.
It uses an HTTP Request node to start a web scraping task via the BrowserAct API to collect the latest news.
A series of If and Wait nodes monitor the scraping job until the full data is ready.
An AI Agent node, powered by Google Gemini, processes the headlines and filters the news based on a list of keywords you define.
A Code node then formats the AI's output into a clean, readable format.
Finally, the filtered news articles are sent as rich media messages to Telegram, including the headline, a picture, and a link.

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Sample result:

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Core Functions

Automated News Scraping with BrowserAct

At the core of the News Content Marketing Automation workflow is BrowserAct, your intelligent virtual media researcher. It automatically signs into news or content websites, navigates dynamic pages, and scrolls through article feeds while loading more stories in real time. BrowserAct then extracts essential details — such as headline, author, publication date, image URL, and article link — turning them into structured  JSON data ready for AI processing. This automation ensures continuous, accurate collection of breaking stories across sources and provides a clean, machine‑readable dataset that can be analyzed, filtered, or delivered instantly to other platforms like n8n or Telegram.

Intelligent Keyword Filtering with Gemini AI or OpenAI

The next stage leverages Gemini AI or OpenAI to deliver advanced, context‑aware keyword analysis. Powered by natural language processing and semantic understanding, the AI evaluates each headline against your predefined keyword set — such as White House, Summer Box Office, Ford, PFL Champion Honors, Zuckerberg, Trump, and NFL Games. Instead of relying on simple keyword matches, the model interprets meaning and relationships within the text. It can identify headlines like “President comments on Ford manufacturing” as relevant, even when the exact keyword isn’t present. This intelligent comprehension ensures that only the most contextually relevant articles pass through the filter, creating a high‑accuracy stream of curated news ready for instant distribution or further analysis.

Full Workflow Orchestration with n8n

With n8n, the entire automation pipeline runs seamlessly from start to finish. It triggers BrowserAct’s API using the designated Workflow ID, monitors execution through controlled loops, and automatically manages timing and error handling. Once the scraping task is complete, n8n requests the filtered news results from the connected AI Agent — whether Gemini AI or OpenAI — and passes them to the next stage for formatting and delivery. This coordinated orchestration turns multiple complex operations into a single, reliable, and repeatable AI‑driven automation workflow, minimizing manual effort while maximizing speed and consistency.

Telegram and Multi‑Channel Distribution

In the final stage, n8n automatically delivers curated news updates to the configured Telegram Channel, complete with rich media — including headlines, images, summaries, and clickable source links. Teams and subscribers receive these AI‑filtered stories instantly, staying informed without ever needing to open a browser or visit multiple news sites. The same automated feed can easily be extended to other platforms, such as Slack, Discord, or Google Sheets, transforming each update into actionable data for analytics, performance tracking, or trend monitoring. This multi‑channel flexibility turns your AI news workflow into a unified, real‑time information hub that keeps every team connected and up to date.

Use cases

Content Marketers & PR Teams

If you manage brand communication or marketing strategy, this workflow will quickly become one of your most valuable partners. Instead of spending hours tracking brand mentions, competitor announcements, influencer posts, or emerging industry buzz, the system does it for you — automatically and accurately. Each time a relevant article appears, it sends an update directly to your Telegram channel (or Slack, if you prefer), complete with the headline, summary, and source link.
That means you’ll always be the first to know when your brand is featured in the news, when a competitor launches a new product, or when a conversation starts trending in your sector.

Journalists & Media Analysts

This workflow helps journalists and media analysts stay ahead of the curve — without wasting hours refreshing dozens of news sites or scrolling through cluttered feeds. You can customize it to track the topics that matter most: White House events, Zuckerberg’s latest moves, NFL Games, film box‑office updates, or any focus area tied to your beat. Each time a matching headline appears online, the system sends an instant Telegram alert — complete with the headline, summary, and source link — so you never miss a lead.

Researchers & Data Analysts

This workflow takes the chaos out of information gathering by automatically transforming unorganized online content into clean, structured datasets that are ready for analysis. You can configure it to track specific areas such as AI policy updates, automotive innovation, healthcare developments, or shifts in economic regulation. Every new article that matches your criteria is extracted, labeled, and formatted consistently — ideal for quantitative studies or long‑term monitoring projects.

Corporate Communications & Monitoring Centers

When it comes to corporate reputation and internal communication, timing isn’t just important — it’s everything. This workflow helps communication teams maintain a clear, real‑time picture of how their organization is being talked about across digital and traditional media. By integrating it directly into your internal dashboard, you can automatically track executive mentions, product launches, partner announcements, investor coverage, or industry commentary as soon as they appear online. No more digging through dozens of sites — the information comes to you, structured and ready for review.

Automation Developers & Growth Hackers

For developers, analysts, or growth‑driven teams, this workflow is more than a tool — it’s a flexible foundation for custom automation. You can apply the same architecture to e‑commerce monitoring, social sentiment analysis, product‑review aggregation, open‑data collection, or policy tracking — all without writing heavy code. BrowserAct handles complex navigation and scraping; n8n manages orchestration and timing; Gemini AI adds intelligent filtering and categorization. When connected to platforms like Slack, Notion, Airtable, or Google Sheets, your automation becomes a full ecosystem that collects, filters, and redistributes insights in real time.

Education & Media Research Programs

For universities, media labs, and journalism schools, this workflow offers a hands‑on way to explore how modern media ecosystems actually work. Students studying communication, journalism, or data analytics can use it to observe how real‑time information is collected, filtered, and categorized — the same process used by today’s major newsrooms and research institutes.

By experimenting with live data, learners can:

Understand the fundamentals of data‑driven journalism and digital reporting.
Study media bias, sentiment trends, and audience behavior with structured datasets.
Gain experience building automated research pipelines using tools like BrowserAct, n8n, and Gemini AI.

Whether you’re a content marketer trying to spot opportunities, a journalist chasing the next headline, a researcher building datasets, or a developer designing smart automations, this system works quietly in the background, keeping you informed at the speed of relevance. Built on BrowserAct, n8n, and Gemini AI, it combines intelligent data collection with real‑time delivery — turning scattered online content into actionable intelligence you can trust.