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Asset Drop Notification System

Real-time asset announcement workflow that watches Google Drive for new uploads, validates file metadata, and posts branded Discord drop alerts while logging successful notifications and routing invalid metadata to admin alerts.

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Asset Drop Notification System workflow

Context

Communities needed a fast way to announce new digital asset drops without manually checking folders, formatting announcements, or missing malformed file metadata that could break the posting process.

Approach

Built two connected n8n workflows that detect new Google Drive files, extract and validate file metadata, post a branded Discord embed for valid uploads, log successful notifications, and send admin or crash alerts when metadata validation fails or the workflow errors.

Architecture

  1. Google Drive fileCreated trigger
  2. Extract metadata
  3. Validate metadata
  4. Invalid: Discord admin error alert
Valid
  1. Format neon purple embed
  2. Discord announcement post
  3. Success log
  4. Error Trigger
  5. Format crash alert
  6. Discord failure notification

Results

~2 hrs/weekAnnouncement prep time saved
Eliminated (real-time)Drop announcement delay
Before postingMalformed uploads caught