Hello everyone! In my previous shares, I showed you how to use Make + GPT to automatically capture trending news and generate press releases. Today, I bring you a simplified version along with a detailed hands-on tutorial. If you’re interested, let’s try to create your own trending news generator!
If you are not familiar with Make, you can review my previous two articles about Make + GPT:
GPT + Make Efficient Batch Writing, Daily Thousands of Articles in New Media is Not a Dream!
GPT + Make Automatically Captures Trending News, Searches Background Information, and Generates Popular Articles in Bulk!
This tutorial is specifically for friends without programming backgrounds. Compared to the previous article, I have simplified two technical issues:
The first issue is writing regular expressions.
This is a method for string matching, a technique for extracting news headlines from web pages. The regular expression I use is generated by ChatGPT, and I do not intend to explain how to write regular expressions in detail in this tutorial. I will directly provide a regular expression suitable for headlines for everyone to use. If you need to write regular expressions for other websites in practical operations, you can seek help in the community.
The second issue is learning to use the Google Search API.
I researched it for a while to understand how to use it, so I don’t want everyone to waste time and effort. I found an open-source program developed by a guru and built a simple search engine API based on it. You can directly use my API without registration and authorization. However, please note that since I am using a free server, the available bandwidth is limited, so this API is only for experimental use.
I truly put a lot of effort into making it understandable and usable for everyone. I hope you can: like, watch, and collect, and support me with a triple click!
Today’s tutorial will still meet the following requirement:
When we run the automation process, we can obtain the top trending topic based on view counts, search for three related news articles through the search engine. The titles and summaries of these three news articles will be sent to GPT, which will create a new press release based on our prompts and automatically save it to Google Docs.
The flowchart is as follows:
I have simplified this automation process into five steps, omitting some technically demanding parts, but the effect is the same:
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Obtain the latest news list from news aggregation sites
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Extract the top traffic news headline from the crawled web information
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Search for three articles related to this news headline using a search engine
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Send the titles and summaries of these three articles to GPT to generate a brand new article
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Save the article to Google Docs
Step 1:
Obtain the latest news headlines from news aggregation websites.
You need to use the HTTP module to access this URL: https://tophub.today/n/x9ozB4KoXb
And operate according to the provided screenshots and instructions, adding and configuring the HTTP module.
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“Add and Configure HTTP Module”
After adding the HTTP module, you can click on the module and run a test:
After running, click the number in the upper right corner to check the results:
Step 2:
We will extract the top traffic news headline from the crawled web information. This requires using a regular expression, and I will directly provide an expression suitable for scraping headlines, which even beginners can easily complete by following my steps.
Regular expression for scraping headlines:
<td class=”al”><a.?>(.?)<\/a><\/td>\s*<td>(.*?)<\/td>
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“Extract Top 1 News Headline”
1. Add a “Text Parser” module:
2. Select advanced regex mode:
3. Configure data as shown in the image: If you select yes for “Global match”, it will fetch all news on this page, resulting in 150 articles; if you select no, it will only fetch the first article, configure as needed:
4. After configuring, click “Run once” to test; it will show an error message, which can be ignored.
Step 3:
Use a search engine to search for three articles related to this news headline. In this step, we will use the HTTP module again and configure the search engine API; please refer to the tutorial for specific operations and settings.
Search engine API: https://duckduckgoapi-eight.vercel.app/search?max_results=3
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“Search for Three Similar Articles”
1. Add an “HTTP” module:
2. Configure the search engine API:
3. Test it using the method in Step 2:
Step 4:
Send the titles and summaries of these three articles to GPT to generate a brand new article. Here, you need to use appropriate prompts to let GPT generate an article that meets your specific requirements.
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“GPT Generates New Article”
How to add the GPT module has been discussed before; I won’t go into detail here. If you’ve forgotten, please review the previous articles:
Reference Prompts
As an experienced newspaper journalist, your task is to create a press release that closely relates to the content of the following three news summaries and analyzes the viewpoints they express. In writing the press release, you need to adopt a critical perspective, questioning or expressing opposing opinions on these viewpoints. Please ensure your article reaches 3000 words and use the pyramid structure to organize the content. Additionally, create an eye-catching, clickbait-style title for your press release to attract readers’ interest.
Press Release={{{3.data}}}
Step 5:
Save the article to Google Docs. This step is similar to adding Google Sheets:
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“Save Article to Google Docs”
By following this process, you can have your own trending news automation generator! Make is very versatile and can greatly enhance your work efficiency. Everyone, hurry up and try it out to see if you can create more interesting and practical automation processes based on your work and life needs!
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