This n8n template empowers you to instantly summarize long pieces of text by sending a simple webhook request. By integrating with ApyHub's summarization API, you can distil complex articles, reports, or messages into concise summaries, significantly boosting efficiency across various domains. --- 🔧 How it works - Receive Content Webhook: This node acts as the entry point, listening for incoming POST requests. It expects a JSON body containing: - content: The long text you want to summarize. - summarylength (optional): The desired length of the summary (e.g., 'short', 'medium', 'long'). Defaults to 'medium'. And a header containing your apy-token for the ApyHub API. - Start Summarization Job: This node sends a POST request to ApyHub's summarization endpoint (api.apyhub.com/sharpapi/api/v1/content/summarize). It passes the content and summarylength from the webhook body, along with your apy-token from the headers. ApyHub processes the text asynchronously, and this node immediately returns a jobid. - Get Summarization Result: Since ApyHub's summarization is an asynchronous process, this node is crucial. It polls ApyHub's job status endpoint (api.apyhub.com/sharpapi/api/v1/content/summarize/job/status/{{jobid}}) using the jobid obtained from the previous step. It continues to check the status until the summarization is finished, at which point it retrieves the final summarized text. - Respond with Summarized Content: This node sends the final, distilled summarized text back to the service that initiated the webhook. --- 👤 Who is it for? This workflow is extremely useful for: - Content Creators & Marketers: Quickly summarize articles for social media snippets, email newsletters, or blog post intros. - Researchers & Students: Efficiently get the gist of academic papers, reports, or long documents without reading every word. - Customer Support & Sales Teams: Summarize customer inquiries, long email chains, or call transcripts to quickly understand key issues or discussion points. - News Aggregators & Media Monitoring: Automatically generate summaries of news articles from various sources for quick consumption. - Business Professionals: Condense lengthy reports, meeting minutes, or project updates into digestible summaries for busy stakeholders. - Legal & Compliance: Summarize legal documents or regulatory texts to highlight critical clauses or changes. - Anyone Dealing with Information Overload: Use it to save time and extract key information from overwhelming amounts of text. --- 📑Data Structure When you trigger the webhook, send a POST request with a JSON body and an apy-token in the headers: Headers: Note: You'll need to obtain an API Key from ApyHub to use their API services. They typically offer a free tier for testing. The workflow will return a JSON response similar to this (the summary content will vary based on input): --- ⚙️ Setup Instructions - Get an ApyHub API Key: - Go to and sign up to get your API key. - Import Workflow: In your n8n editor, click "Import from JSON" and paste the provided workflow JSON. - Configure Webhook Path: - Double-click the Receive Content Webhook node. - In the 'Path' field, set a unique and descriptive path (e.g., /summarize-content). - Activate Workflow: Save and activate the workflow. --- 📝 Tips This content summarizer is a powerful component. Here's how to supercharge it and make it an indispensable part of your automation arsenal: - Integrate with Document/File Storage: - Google Drive/Dropbox/OneDrive: Automatically summarize documents uploaded to these services. Add a Watch New Files trigger (if available for your service) or a Cron node to regularly check for new files. Then, read the file content, pass it to this summarizer, and save the summary back to a designated folder or as a comment on the original file. - CRM/CMS Systems: Pull long notes, customer interactions, or article drafts from your CRM/CMS, summarize them, and update the records with the concise version. - Email Processing & Triage: - Email Trigger: Use an Email node to trigger the workflow when new emails arrive. Extract the email body, summarize it, and then: - Send a shortened summary as a notification to your Slack or Telegram. - Add a summary to a task management tool (e.g., Trello, Asana) for quicker triaging. - Create a summary for an email digest. - Slack/Discord Bot Integration: - Create a Slack/Discord command (using a custom webhook or a dedicated Slack/Discord node) where users can paste long text. The bot then sends the summarized version back to the channel. - Dynamic Summary Length & Options: - Allow the user to specify summarylength (short, medium, long) in the webhook body, as already implemented. - Explore ApyHub's documentation for more parameters (if any) and dynamically pass them. - Error Handling & User Feedback: - Add an IF node after Get Summarization Result to check for status: 'failed' or error messages. If an error occurs, send a helpful message back to the webhook caller or an internal alert. - For very long texts that might exceed API limits, add a Function node to truncate the input content if it's too long, and notify the user. - Multi-language Support (if ApyHub offers it): - If ApyHub supports summarization in multiple languages, extend the webhook to accept a language parameter and pass it to the API. - Web Scraping & Article Summaries: - Combine this with a HTTP Request node to scrape content from a web page (e.g., a news article). Then, pass the extracted article text to this summarizer to get quick insights. - Data Storage & Archiving: - Store the original content alongside its summary in a database (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB) or a simple spreadsheet (Google Sheets, Airtable). This creates a searchable, summarized archive of your content. - Automated Report Generation: - If you receive daily/weekly reports, use this workflow to summarize key sections, then compile these summaries into a concise digest or dashboard using a Merge node and send it out automatically.
