Track White House News Alerts

White House News Tracker for Email & Telegram

This workflow automatically tracks the latest news articles from the White House website and delivers them to your inbox and Telegram channel. It runs on a weekday schedule, fetches the official news page, extracts article titles and links, and sends a clean digest through both channels.

What It Does

1. Triggers automatically on a weekday schedule (e.g., every weekday at 6 PM ET) to check for new articles.
2. Sends an HTTP request to the White House news page to retrieve the latest HTML content.
3. Parses the HTML to extract valid news article titles and URLs, filtering out irrelevant links.
4. Formats the extracted articles into an HTML email and a Markdown-formatted Telegram message.
5. Sends the compiled digest as both an email and a Telegram message simultaneously.

What You Need

• A Needle account to run the workflow.
• A Gmail account (or compatible email connector) configured for sending emails.
• A Telegram bot token and chat ID set up to post messages to your desired chat or channel.
• No API keys are needed for the White House website — it scrapes the publicly available page.

How the Flow Works

Output

At the end of each run, you receive:

• Email — A neatly formatted HTML email listing the latest White House news articles with clickable links.
• Telegram message — A structured digest posted to your specified Telegram chat with article titles and URLs.
• JSON data — A structured object containing all parsed news items and summary metadata, useful for logging or further processing.

Configuration Tips

• Schedule: Adjust the cron expression in the Scheduled Trigger node to change how often the workflow runs (e.g., multiple times per day, weekends included).
• Item limit: The parser caps results at 20 articles per run to keep digests concise.
• Filtering: The code node filters out general navigation links and non-news items so only relevant articles are included.

Important Notes

• The parser depends on the current structure of the White House news page. If the site layout changes significantly, the code node may need updating.
• Make sure your Telegram bot has permission to post in the target chat or channel.
• Verify that your Gmail connector is properly authorized before running the workflow.
• This workflow is ideal for journalists, researchers, policy analysts, or anyone who wants timely access to official US government news without manually checking the site.