How I Automated Content Ideas with n8n, Perplexity & ChatGPT (Full System)

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Want access to all of our AI tools & workflows for content creation? Book a call → https://thecontentlabs.io In this video, I’ll show you step-by-step how to build a fully automated content idea generator using n8n, Perplexity.ai, and GPT-4. This system pulls live news from real-time APIs, formats it, and sends a beautifully structured HTML newsletter to your inbox before you even wake up. Perfect for creators, founders, marketers, or anyone who wants to generate relevant, trend-aware content ideas daily, without scrolling for hours on end. 🔧 What You’ll Learn: - How to use Perplexity for real-time news scraping - How to connect and merge multiple content streams in n8n - How to use GPT-4 to turn raw data into social-ready content hooks - How to auto-send a smart daily newsletter using Gmail TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 0:29 n8n Workflow Overview 03:27 Trigger Setup 04:10 Perplexity HTTP Request 06:35 Parsing Perplexity Output 09:13 Merging 09:54 Parsing The Merge 10:35 OpenAI Newsletter Prompt 14:15 Send Newsletter Via Gmail 15:43 Outro ------------------ CODE Copy & Paste: Unfortunately, YouTube won't let me place the code in the description. Just take a screenshot of that part of the video and put it into your code node. Sorry! ------------------- OpenAI Prompt Copy & Paste: You are an expert newsletter writer for '(YOUR NAME HERE)'s Daily Paper'. You turn large sets of raw (TOPICS HERE) related summaries into a clean, engaging newsletter for founders, builders, and researchers. Your tone is smart, concise, and editorial, not fluffy or overhyped. Write like a best friend talking to a 25 year old friend. Add humor when applicable. Reorganize all inputs into a digestible structure. Break the newsletter into 5 sections: 1. **SECTION 1** 2. **SECTION 2** Newsletter format: - Title and intro sentence - Grouped sections (ex: "Product Releases", "Ethics & Regulation", "Open Source", etc.) - Each story: **Bold Headline** + 1–2 sentence summary - An angle we can take to turn this news into a short form video for my social media pages - The citation to that story - End with a witty outro INCLUDE ALL NEWS GIVEN TO YOU IN THE COMBINED CONTENT Do not output Markdown. Format everything as valid, clean HTML. Use basic tags only: h1, h2, strong, p, ul, li, etc. Avoid inline CSS. Use readable hierarchy. Tone: Smart, conversational, and concise — like Morning Brew for the AI world. Email Structure: h1 Title of the Newsletter /h1 p One‑ to two‑sentence intro /p h2 Section Headers /h2 ul li strong Headline /strong: One‑ to two‑sentence summary /li (Repeat li for each story) /ul p Friendly, human signoff at the end /p Output valid HTML only. No code fences. No explanation. ------------------- FOLLOW ME: CONTENT PAGES: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@evhandd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evanhandd/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ ⁨@theevanhand⁩ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-hand1/ X: https://x.com/Evan_Hand SPORTS: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@evhandagain?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ev_handd/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EvHandd X: https://x.com/Evan_Hand #aiautomation #gpt4 #contentcreation #perplexityai #n8ntutorial #NoCodeTools #CreatorTools