RSS + Telegram: daily cyber news digests, ready to post
Running a cybersecurity Telegram channel sounds simple until you’re stuck every morning: opening tabs, skimming walls of text, hunting for a usable image, then rewriting the same “what happened + why it matters” summary.
Marketing leads trying to stay consistent feel this. A community manager does too. And if you’re a founder doing it yourself, it’s honestly the worst kind of work. This RSS Telegram automation takes the daily posting chore off your plate and still keeps posts clean and readable.
Below, you’ll see how the workflow pulls news, removes sponsored fluff, creates two-sentence AI summaries, then posts to Telegram on a schedule.
How This Automation Works
The full n8n workflow, from trigger to final output:
n8n Workflow Template: RSS + Telegram: daily cyber news digests, ready to post
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The Problem: Daily news posting turns into busywork
Daily “cyber news” content is high-value, but the production process is painfully repetitive. You find a story in an RSS feed, then you have to open the page, strip out the junk, and figure out what’s actually worth sharing. Some articles have usable images, others don’t. Some are sponsored, which can quietly damage trust if they slip into your channel. Do that across multiple stories, every day, and you’re spending your best attention on copy-paste instead of analysis, commentary, or growth.
The friction compounds. And it shows up in the quality of your posts, not just your calendar.
- Pulling a handful of stories usually means 30–60 minutes of tab hopping and formatting, even before you write a single summary.
- Manual summaries drift in tone and length, which makes your channel feel inconsistent over time.
- Sponsored items can sneak in when you’re rushing, and readers notice faster than you think.
- Telegram posting is deceptively slow because every post needs a title, a clean snippet, a link, and ideally an image.
The Solution: A daily cyber digest that writes and posts itself
This n8n workflow runs every day at 9 AM and builds a ready-to-post cybersecurity digest from an RSS source (Bleeping Computer’s Security Bulletin). It pulls the latest stories, then fetches each full article so you’re not stuck with messy feed snippets. Next, it cleans the HTML, extracts an image when one is available, and sends the core text into an AI Agent powered by an OpenAI Chat Model to produce a short, two-sentence summary. Before anything goes out, it filters out items marked “Sponsored.” Finally, it loops through the remaining stories and posts them to your Telegram channel as photo messages when possible, including the title, author, date, categories, the AI summary, and a “Read more” link.
The workflow starts on a schedule (9 AM daily). It then collects RSS items, enriches them by scraping the full page content, and generates consistent summaries. In the last stage, Telegram posting happens automatically with a short one-minute wait between posts to avoid spamming.
What You Get: Automation vs. Results
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Example: What This Looks Like
Say you publish 6 stories each weekday. Manually, you might spend about 10 minutes per story to open the page, clean the text, write a quick summary, find an image, then format a Telegram post. That’s roughly an hour a day. With this workflow, your “work” is basically zero after setup: it triggers at 9 AM, processes the stories in the background, then posts with a 1-minute gap between items, so the channel is filled in under 10 minutes without you touching anything.
What You’ll Need
- n8n instance (try n8n Cloud free)
- Self-hosting option if you prefer (Hostinger works well)
- Telegram for publishing posts to your channel
- OpenAI Chat Model (or OpenRouter) to generate two-sentence summaries
- AI provider API key (get it from your OpenAI or OpenRouter dashboard)
Skill level: Intermediate. You will connect accounts, add API keys, and test a few runs to confirm Telegram formatting.
Don’t want to set this up yourself? Talk to an automation expert (free 15-minute consultation).
How It Works
A daily schedule kicks it off. The workflow runs every morning at 9 AM, so you’re not relying on someone remembering to “go post the news.”
RSS items get expanded into full articles. n8n pulls the newest items from the cybersecurity RSS feed, then uses HTTP requests to retrieve each full page, clean up the HTML, and pull image URLs when available.
AI writes the short summary. The AI Agent takes the cleaned snippet and produces a two-sentence summary, using a memory buffer to keep outputs consistent as it loops through multiple stories.
Telegram posts go out in a controlled loop. Sponsored items are filtered out, the remaining stories get merged into a single payload (title, author, date, categories, summary, image, link), then Telegram sends a photo message with a 1-minute wait between posts.
You can easily modify the source feed and the Telegram message format based on your needs. See the full implementation guide below for customization options.
Common Gotchas
- Telegram bot permissions can block posting even when the credentials look fine. Check that the bot is an admin in your channel and verify the chat ID used in the Telegram node.
- If you’re using Wait nodes or external rendering, processing times vary. Bump up the wait duration if downstream nodes fail on empty responses.
- OpenAI/OpenRouter API keys can be valid but still fail on rate limits or missing billing. If summaries suddenly stop, check your provider usage dashboard and the n8n execution logs for 429 or billing errors first.
Frequently Asked Questions
About 30 minutes if you already have your Telegram bot and AI key ready.
No. You’ll connect Telegram and your AI provider, then tweak a few fields. The workflow logic is already built.
Yes. n8n has a free self-hosted option and a free trial on n8n Cloud. Cloud plans start at $20/month for higher volume. You’ll also need to factor in AI API costs, which are usually a few cents per day for short summaries.
Two options: n8n Cloud (managed, easiest setup) or self-hosting on a VPS. For self-hosting, Hostinger VPS is affordable and handles n8n well. Self-hosting gives you unlimited executions but requires basic server management.
Yes, and it’s a common tweak. Swap the RSS feed URL used for fetching items, then adjust the HTTP Request and “clean HTML” part if the new site’s layout is messy. You can also change the AI Agent prompt to match your voice (more technical, more casual, “include one takeaway,” and so on). If you want to post as text-only instead of photo messages, you can replace the Telegram “Send Photo Message” action with a standard message node.
Most of the time it’s the basics: the bot isn’t an admin in the channel, the chat ID is wrong, or the token was regenerated and n8n still has the old one. Check the Telegram node credentials, then look at the last failed execution output for the exact error message. If it mentions “chat not found,” it’s almost always a channel ID or permission issue.
Dozens per run is fine for most channels.
Often, yes, because this workflow isn’t just “RSS in, message out.” You’re fetching full pages, cleaning HTML, extracting images, filtering “Sponsored,” looping over multiple items, and adding a wait between posts, which is the kind of logic that gets awkward (and expensive) in simpler tools. n8n also gives you a self-hosting route when executions climb, so you’re not paying per tiny step forever. Zapier or Make can still be fine if you only want a basic RSS-to-message blast with no enrichment. If you’re unsure, Talk to an automation expert and you’ll get a straight recommendation.
This is the kind of automation you set up once and quietly benefit from every morning. The workflow handles the repetitive parts, so you can spend your time on the insights that actually make people follow your channel.
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