Daily Podcast Summary
Fetches daily top podcasts in your chosen genre, summarizes each episode, and emails the digest with direct links.
What it does
Receive your daily top podcasts in your chosen genre with concise summaries and direct links delivered straight to your inbox. This workflow automatically fetches new episodes, summarizes their content using advanced AI, and sends you a formatted digest so you never miss an update.
Step by step
- Configure the Taddy API client with authentication headers and query parameters for genre filtering.
- Define the system prompt template for OpenAI that specifies summary length constraints and tone requirements.
- Construct the Gmail message payload by iterating through the list of summaries to generate HTML or plain text content.
Where the LLM does the work
- Generate concise, engaging summaries for each podcast episode while preserving key insights without hallucination.
- Refine the email body copy to ensure a natural, conversational tone that matches the user's preferred style.
- Select the most relevant podcasts from the API results if the genre returns too many low-quality entries.
Watch out for
The Taddy API may return empty or malformed JSON for niche genres so add robust error handling and fallback logic.
OpenAI token limits can truncate long podcast transcripts so implement a chunking strategy before sending to the LLM.
Gmail API scopes must include full mail access so verify OAuth permissions are correctly configured in the service account.
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The agent brief
Everything your agent needs, including the gotchas. Copy it and go.
You are helping me build the following AI agent workflow. ## Goal Daily Podcast Summary: Fetches daily top podcasts in your chosen genre, summarizes each episode, and emails the digest with direct links. ## Specification - What it does: Receive your daily top podcasts in your chosen genre with concise summaries and direct links delivered straight to your inbox. This workflow automatically fetches new episodes, summarizes their content using advanced AI, and sends you a formatted digest so you never miss an update. - Trigger: On a schedule (Scheduled · daily) - Autonomy: Fully hands-off - Expected setup effort: under an hour - Tools/services involved: - Taddy API: Fetch top podcasts by genre - OpenAI: Summarize podcast content - Gmail: Send formatted email with summaries ## Known pitfalls, handle each one explicitly in your implementation 1. The Taddy API may return empty or malformed JSON for niche genres so add robust error handling and fallback logic. 2. OpenAI token limits can truncate long podcast transcripts so implement a chunking strategy before sending to the LLM. 3. Gmail API scopes must include full mail access so verify OAuth permissions are correctly configured in the service account. ## Reference implementation https://n8n.io/workflows/2433 (workflow template) Fetch and inspect this before building. If it matches my stack, adapt it; if not, rebuild the pattern with my tools. ## Process requirements 1. Before building: ask me which of the listed tools I actually use and what my platform is (n8n / Make / code / other). Do not assume. 2. Adapt the pattern to my answers; do not force the reference stack. 3. Address every pitfall above; tell me how you handled each. 4. Provide a test plan I can run before letting this touch real data. 5. Ask before any step that sends messages, modifies data, or spends money. Source: https://usecasesforagents.com/use-case/daily-podcast-summary/ via usecasesforagents.com
Frequently asked questions
Can I use a different Niche API than Taddy API?
Yes. Taddy API is only the example niche api in this recipe. The same flow works with Bitly, Google Maps Distance Matrix API, Open-Meteo API and OpenWeatherMap. Swap the niche api connection and keep the rest of the setup as written.
Want this running in your business?
This is what I do. I design and build AI agents like this one, and keep them running. If you want it set up for your team instead of doing it yourself, get in touch.
Who it's for
Built for anyone who wants this off their own plate, no team or company required.