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Get a Discord alert when your brand is in the news

By Keencrest · 2026-11-01

Data: The GDELT Project. GDELT permits commercial use and redistribution with a citation and a link, and every row the Actor returns carries that citation. The Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by GDELT.

Same workflow as the Slack version, with a Discord webhook as the last step. The GDELT News Monitor runs in watch mode, so each hourly run returns only articles it has not returned before; an hour with no news posts nothing and costs nothing.

Download: n8n-gdelt-brand-alert-discord.json.

Set up

  1. In Discord: Channel settings, Integrations, Webhooks, New Webhook, copy the URL.
  2. In n8n: Workflows, Import from file, choose the JSON.
  3. Create a Header Auth credential (Name Authorization, Value Bearer plus your own Apify token) and pick it in the Apify node.
  4. Edit keywords in the request body, paste the webhook URL into the last node, activate.

What differs from the Slack file

Two things only: the Code node writes Discord markdown links with angle brackets around the URL (so Discord does not unfurl fifteen previews) and cuts the message at 1,900 characters because Discord rejects messages over 2,000; and the last node posts the text as the webhook's content field. The watch name is brand-alert-discord, so it does not share a position with a Slack alert on the same keywords.

Cost and limits

$0.002 per article returned, with maxTotalChargeUsd=1 per run and maxItems 100. Keywords match whole words in title, URL, people and organizations, and GDELT lags the original story by roughly 15 to 30 minutes.

What was tested

The JSON was structure-checked (unique node ids, connections resolve, no token) and its Code node was run in Node on a sample article to check the message text and length cut. It was not imported into a live n8n and nothing was posted to Discord in this build; the webhook format is taken from Discord's documentation. The Actor's watch mode was tested on the Apify platform (30 articles, then 725 with none repeated, then 0).

Try it: GDELT News Monitor on Apify. $0.002 per article returned, no start fee; reading files and filtering is free. The Apify free plan includes monthly credit, so a test run costs nothing out of pocket.

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