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Absolutely — let’s build this step by step like a real production system. 🚀 I’ll guide you from zero → live bot with exact actions, node choices, prompts, and checks.

We’ll build an n8n workflow that:

• Fetches research papers on your topics
• Understands them
• Converts them into engaging Medium-style articles
• Publishes them to your site

This is 100% legal, ethical, and powerful.

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🧩 PART 0 — What you need ready

Before we start, make sure you have:

1. ✅ An n8n instance (cloud or self-hosted)

2. ✅ An OpenAI API key (or any LLM provider supported by n8n)

3. ✅ A place to publish:

   • WordPress
   • Ghost
   • Or your own API endpoint

Tell me if you’re using WordPress, Ghost, or custom — I’ll tailor the publishing node.

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🧩 PART 1 — Choose your research sources

We’ll use arXiv (best for tech/AI/engineering) and optionally Semantic Scholar.

Step 1: Pick your topics

Examples:

• “drones”
• “battery technology”
• “artificial intelligence”
• “robotics”
• “computer vision”

Tell me 3–5 topics you want.

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🧩 PART 2 — Create the n8n workflow

Open n8n → Click New Workflow.

🔹 Step 1: Add a Trigger

Add:

• Cron Node

  • Mode: Every day (or every 6 hours)
  • Time: Choose any

This runs your bot automatically.

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🔹 Step 2: Fetch papers from arXiv

Add:

• HTTP Request Node

Configure:

• Method: GET
• URL:

http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:YOUR_TOPIC&start=0&max_results=5&sortBy=submittedDate&sortOrder=descending

Example:

http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:drones&start=0&max_results=5&sortBy=submittedDate&sortOrder=descending

Set:

• Response Format: JSON or Text

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🔹 Step 3: Parse the arXiv feed

Add:

• Function Node

Paste this:

const xml = items[0].json;
const entries = xml.feed.entry || [];

return entries.map(entry => ({
  json: {
    title: entry.title,
    summary: entry.summary,
    link: entry.id,
    authors: entry.author.map(a => a.name).join(', '),
    published: entry.published
  }
}));

This extracts:

• Title
• Abstract
• Authors
• Link

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🔹 Step 4: Clean the abstract

Add:

• Set Node

Create fields:

• clean_summary → Expression:

{{$json["summary"].replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim()}}

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🧩 PART 3 — Turn research into a Medium-style article

🔹 Step 5: Add AI Rewrite Node

Add:

• OpenAI Node (or your LLM node)

Model: GPT-4.1 / GPT-4o / GPT-5 (whatever available)

Prompt:

You are a science writer.

Read the following research abstract and write a Medium-style article for general readers.

Rules:
- Do NOT copy sentences.
- Use storytelling.
- Explain the problem, solution, and why it matters.
- Avoid technical jargon.
- Make it engaging and easy to read.
- Add a catchy headline.
- End with a short “Source” section crediting the original paper with title, authors, and link.

Abstract:
{{$json["clean_summary"]}}

Paper title: {{$json["title"]}}
Authors: {{$json["authors"]}}
Link: {{$json["link"]}}

Output:

• Store as article_body

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🧩 PART 4 — Add plagiarism safety + quality filter

(Optional but recommended)

🔹 Step 6: Add another AI Node (Quality Check)

Prompt:

Check this article for:
- Originality
- No sentence overlap with the abstract
- Readability

If it is good, reply ONLY with "PASS".
If not, reply ONLY with "FAIL".

Article:
{{$json["article_body"]}}

Then add:

• IF Node

  • Condition: Output equals PASS
  • True → Publish
  • False → Stop workflow

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🧩 PART 5 — Publish to your site

🔹 Step 7: Publishing Node (example: WordPress)

Add:

• WordPress Node

  • Operation: Create Post
  • Title: Extract headline from article
  • Content: {{$json["article_body"]}}
  • Status: Draft or Publish

If you’re not using WordPress, tell me — I’ll give you the correct node setup.

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🧩 PART 6 — Logging & Monitoring

🔹 Step 8: Add Google Sheet / DB / Email log

Store:

• Paper title
• Date
• Link
• Article title
• Status

This prevents duplicates and gives you a content audit trail.

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🚀 Bonus: Make it even smarter

Later we can:

• Avoid duplicate topics
• Rank papers by citations
• Detect trending research
• Add your brand tone automatically
• Auto-generate images
• Auto-post to Medium, LinkedIn, Twitter

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🎯 Next step (I need from you)

Reply with:

1. ✅ Your topics
2. ✅ Your publishing platform (WordPress / custom / something else)
3. ✅ Whether you want daily, weekly, or instant publishing

I’ll then:

• Generate a ready-to-import n8n JSON workflow
• Customize prompts for your niche
• Optimize the publishing flow for your setup