🧠 AI Article Processor with n8n

Automated AI-based article processing system built using n8n, FastAPI, and a front-end for URL submission.
It takes an article URL and user email, processes the content through an LLM, stores results, and sends a summary via email.

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🚀 Why This Project Matters

Showcases a real-world automation system combining: ✔ Web scraping
✔ LLM-powered summarization & insights
✔ Workflow automation with n8n
✔ Email automation
✔ Persistent session tracking and logging

This project demonstrates end-to-end automation skills suitable for data engineering, backend automation, and AI-assisted systems engineering.

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📌 Features

• 📥 Frontend form to submit article URL & email
• 🔄 n8n workflow triggered with session ID
• 🕸 Article scraping & content extraction
• 🤖 LLM processing (summary, insights)
• 📊 Logging to Excel or database
• 📧 Automatic email delivery with results

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📦 Tech Stack

Component	Technology
Frontend	Lovable.dev form
Backend	FastAPI
Workflow	n8n (JSON workflow combined with API triggers)
AI LLM	GPT-based summarization
Data store	Excel sheet or sheet API
Communication	SMTP email service

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📈 Workflow Overview

1. User submits URL + email via frontend

• Frontend references
  • Git repository link for frontend code using Lovable: https://github.com/Methila-Meem/article-submitter
  • Frontend URL: https://lovable.dev/projects/0ab99550-5364-4667-af3c-078d3fb893bc
  • Frontend view

2. Frontend sends to backend API

• Backend references
  • Git repository link for backend code using FastAPi: https://github.com/Methila-Meem/Article_Processor_API
  • Backend link hosted in render: https://article-processor-api.onrender.com/

3. Backend triggers an n8n workflow with session ID
4. n8n:
   • Scrapes article body
   • Sends content to LLM for summarization
   • Stores results in Excel or DB
   • Sends summary email
   • Workflow diagram
5. User receives summary email

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🛠 Setup & Installation

Prerequisites

✔ Node.js and n8n installed
✔ Python & FastAPI environment
✔ SMTP credentials for mail delivery
✔ LLM API key (OpenAI or similar)

1. Setup Environment

cp .env.example .env

• Fill in API keys, SMTP config, etc.

2. Run Backend

pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn app.main:app --reload

3. Import Workflow

• Open n8n

• Go to “Workflows”

• Import n8n/ArticleProcessor.workflow.json

• Fill required credentials

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✨ Demo

📹 Video walkthrough link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dJAcyCKrHsnA8NWFqYSS2WIS7TdbK8bA/view?usp=sharing

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🧪 Sample Output

📝 Summary reports & deep insights on article content, automatically generated and emailed.