Morning news brief generator
A daily automation that scrapes your chosen sources, summarizes the top stories, and delivers a concise brief to your inbox before you finish your coffee.
Ingredients
- RSS feeds or API keys for 2–5 news sources
- OpenAI or Anthropic API key for summarization
- SMTP credentials or Resend API key
- Meridian scheduler (cron trigger)
Steps
- Fetch — pull headlines and article text from configured sources via HTTP node.
- Deduplicate — filter near-duplicate stories using cosine similarity on embeddings.
- Summarize — pass each article through an LLM node with a tight prompt: 2–3 sentences max.
- Compose — template the brief with a header, categorized sections, and source links.
- Deliver — send via email node at 7:00 AM local time.
Output
Subject: Your Morning Brief — May 26
# Top Stories
• Fed holds rates steady amid inflation concerns
• Breakthrough in solid-state battery research
# Tech
• Open-source model rivals GPT-4 on benchmark
Generated by Meridian · 7:00 AM · 2.3s runtime