Daily Vegan Recipe Sharing Automation

Target Audience

• Vegan Recipe Enthusiasts: Individuals looking for daily vegan recipes.
• Telegram Users: People who use Telegram and want to receive automated messages.
• Developers and Automation Specialists: Those interested in creating automated workflows using n8n and integrating with APIs like Airtable and Spoonacular.
• Small Business Owners: Businesses that want to engage customers with daily content through Telegram.
• Food Bloggers: Bloggers who wish to share recipes automatically with their audience.

Problem Solved

This workflow addresses the challenge of delivering daily vegan recipes to users in an automated manner. It eliminates the need for manual messaging and ensures that users receive fresh content without any effort on their part. Additionally, it helps maintain an updated list of users who have joined the Telegram bot, ensuring effective communication and engagement.

Workflow Steps

1. Trigger: The workflow starts on a schedule using the Cron node, which can be set to run daily.
2. Fetch Chat IDs: It retrieves a list of chat IDs from Airtable using the Airtable2 node, which contains users who have subscribed to receive recipes.
3. Set Chat ID: The Set node captures the chat ID for use in subsequent steps.
4. Fetch Random Recipe: The Get recipes from API node fetches a random vegan recipe from the Spoonacular API, ensuring variety.
5. Send Recipe Photo: The Recipe Photo node sends the recipe's image to the user via Telegram.
6. Send Recipe URL: The Recipe URL node sends the title and source URL of the recipe to the user.
7. User Join Handling: When a new user joins the Telegram bot, the Telegram Trigger node captures their details and triggers the workflow to add them to Airtable and send a welcome message along with a recipe.