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Question

How can I parse summaries of news articles online from ChatGPT to Slack?

  • January 18, 2025
  • 1 reply
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Hey everyone,

I’m trying to set up an automation to fetch the latest news articles from a few URLs, summarise them, and send the summaries to a Slack channel.

Here’s how I imagine it working:

  1. An automated Slack message triggers the process to "Fetch daily news and summarise."

  2. The request goes to ChatGPT to browse the URLs and summarise the content.

  3. ChatGPT’s summaries are sent back to the Slack channel.

I can set up the workflow in Zapier, but I’m stuck because ChatGPT doesn’t seem to browse the web when the prompt is sent via Zapier. It only achieves this when prompted within ChatGPT.

I’ve also tried using RSS feeds, but those just push the news links, and I need ChatGPT to actually summarise the articles, not just share the links.

Does anyone know how to get this working?

I’m open to any solution that can provide TL;DR summaries of industry news for my team to read easily in Slack.

Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Steven

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  • ken.aZapier Staff
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  • January 21, 2025

Hi ​@DigitalNextAUS,

It looks like you’ve reached out to our Support Team about this and they replied with a suggestion. I’ll share details of the suggestion here in case it’s helpful:

I see that you need assistance with your workflow on sending a summarized feed to a Slack channel.
 
It looks like this is the Zap you are working on.
 
Have you already tried this workflow:
 

 
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If not, I suggest to give this a try and let me know how it goes.

If you’ve got any questions regarding their suggestion it would be best to continue the conversation with them over email. If you can’t locate their reply I’d recommend searching your spam/junk folder or searching your inbox for any emails from zapier.com in case. Sometimes their emails can end up in the spam/junk folder by accident.

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