Send a daily GitHub Trending digest to Telegram using Google Gemini

Description

Daily GitHub Trending AI Digest to Telegram

This workflow generates a daily AI-powered GitHub Trending digest and sends it to Telegram using GitHub Trending, GitHub README data, and Google Gemini.

It fetches trending repositories from GitHub, extracts the top repository links, retrieves each repository README through the GitHub API, builds a structured AI payload, asks Gemini to summarize the repositories, and delivers the result as a clean Telegram digest.

It is useful for developers, builders, researchers, and tech enthusiasts who want to discover interesting open-source projects without manually browsing GitHub Trending every day.

Common use cases:

Send a daily GitHub Trending digest to your Telegram
Discover useful open-source repositories automatically
Monitor new developer tools, AI projects, frameworks, and libraries
Build a personal open-source discovery assistant
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How it works

Starts from a Schedule Trigger, which you can customize
Sets the number of repositories to include in the digest
Fetches the GitHub Trending page
Extracts trending repository links from the page
Splits the repository links into individual items
Builds GitHub repository URLs and GitHub README API URLs
Limits the workflow to the configured number of repositories
Fetches each repository README using the GitHub API
Decodes README content from base64
Builds one structured AI payload containing all selected repositories
Sends the payload to Google Gemini
Parses Gemini’s response into structured JSON
Formats the result into a Telegram message
Sends the AI-generated digest to Telegram

Setup steps

Set the number of repositories in the Set Digest Config node
Connect your Google Gemini credentials
Connect your Telegram credentials
Set your Telegram chat ID in the Telegram node
Adjust the Schedule Trigger if you want a different run time
Test the workflow manually
Activate the workflow

Notes

This workflow uses GitHub Trending page data and GitHub public README API data.
GitHub does not provide an official Trending API endpoint, so the workflow extracts repository links from the GitHub Trending page.

The AI summaries are generated only from the provided repository URLs and README excerpts. If a README is missing or unclear, the summary quality may be limited.

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