search reddit and edit open ai and open ai
Configured with Open Ai, Reddit. Review the connections and setup before adapting this template.
Node categories in this workflow
- Trigger
- Integration
- Transform
- Routing
- AI & models
Icons describe general node roles, inferred from node types. Inspect the parameters for the configured action.
Drag to pan; use + and − to zoom. Reconstructed from the exported node positions; nothing runs here. Dashed lines represent non-main connections. Full node names and notes appear below.
How it works
The exported workflow contains the following configured nodes. Their connections are shown above; inspect the JSON for the complete logic, expressions, and external actions.
| Node | Category | Type | Operation |
|---|---|---|---|
| When clicking "Execute Workflow" | Trigger | Manual Trigger | See node parameters |
| Integration | search | ||
| Set | Transform | Edit Fields | See node parameters |
| IF | Routing | If | See node parameters |
| IF1 | Routing | If | See node parameters |
| Merge | Transform | Merge | See node parameters |
| Merge1 | Transform | Merge | See node parameters |
| SetFinal | Transform | Edit Fields | See node parameters |
| OpenAI Summary | AI & models | Open Ai | edit |
| OpenAI Classify | AI & models | Open Ai | See node parameters |
| OpenAI Summary Backup | AI & models | Open Ai | See node parameters |
Setup
- Download the JSON and import it into an isolated n8n instance. Leave the workflow inactive.
- Connect your own credentials through n8n’s credential store. Replace
REPLACE_WITH_*values with your resource identifiers. - Inspect API destinations, Code nodes, database queries, file paths, and outbound actions.
- Run with synthetic data and harmless destinations. Enable triggers only after checking the actual outputs.
Requirements
An n8n instance with the listed node types and compatible versions. Service-connected workflows may require accounts, credentials, or paid APIs.
Credential types declared in the source
None declared. HTTP requests and Code nodes may still need configuration.
Workflow notes
What this workflow does
What this workflow does
✔︎ 1) Get posts from reddit that might be about n8n - Filter for the most relevant posts (posted in last 7 days and more than 5 upvotes and is original content)
✔︎ 2) Check if the post is actually about n8n
✔︎ 3) if it is, categorise with OpenAi.
Drawbacks
Drawbacks
🤔 Workflow only considers first 500 characters of each reddit post. So if n8n is mentioned after this amount, it won't register as being a post about n8n.io.
Next steps
Next steps
- Improve OpenAI Summary node prompt to return cleaner summaries.
- Extend to more platforms/sources - e.g. it would be really cool to monitor larger slack communities in this way.
- Do some classification on type of user to highlight users likely to be in our ICP.
- Separate a list of data sources (reddit, twitter, slack, discord etc.), extract messages from there and have them go to a sub workflow for classification and summarisation.
OpenAI Summary
A one sentence summary of what the post is about.
OpenAI Classify
Is the post about n8n?
What we learned
What we learned
- 🪶 Writing prompts: small changes in the type of prompt result in very different results. e.g. for Summarising OpenAI would use multiple sentences even if we asked it to use only 1. We got better results by following OpenAI's documentation.
- We could make OpenAI node easier to work with for new users by the node inputs being oriented not to sending parameters to api but by following their suggestions - e.g. have a field for expected output format rather than just for prompt.
- ↕️ Changing the max_tokens parameter drastically changes results - sometimes making it smaller even improves results (e.g. when you want a yes/no response in the OpenAI Classify node). In their docs they recommend using max_tokens>256 but n8n by default uses max_tokens=16. We should probably update this.
search reddit and edit open ai and open ai
search reddit and edit open ai and open ai
Purpose and structure
This folder contains the search reddit and edit open ai and open ai workflow. Its executable nodes use if, manualTrigger, merge, openAi, reddit, set. The table and connection map below are derived from the JSON, not an inferred guarantee of behavior.
Setup
Import inactive. Configure your own credentials and replace REPLACE_WITH_* values. Review external destinations and Code nodes before running.
Entry points
When clicking "Execute Workflow"
Verification
Sanitized source candidate; not runtime-tested. This overview is generated from node metadata. Read the folder README for the connection map, credential types, and license.
Attribution
https://github.com/Zie619/n8n-workflows/blob/94007c1445d9258a7da116646b79473e7c7c3282/workflows/Manual/0297_Manual_Openai_Export_Triggered.json MIT; preserve source notices.