How to Auto-Export Glasp Highlights with n8n

Automate Your Highlight Workflow — Send to Slack, Notion, Google Sheets, and More

We’re excited to announce a new tutorial on Glasp: How to Auto-Export Glasp Highlights with n8n

With this workflow, you can automatically export your Glasp highlights to any app you use — without copying and pasting manually.

Using n8n, a powerful open-source workflow automation tool, you can build a fully automated pipeline that fetches your latest highlights from Glasp and sends them wherever you need.

Whether it’s team updates, personal knowledge bases, or content workflows, Glasp + n8n lets you:

• Automatically fetch new highlights from your Glasp account on a schedule

• Send highlights to Slack channels for team visibility

• Push highlights to Notion databases for organized knowledge management

• Export to Google Sheets for tracking and analysis

• Connect to 400+ apps through n8n’s integration library

In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to import a ready-to-use workflow, configure your Glasp API credentials, and connect your favorite destinations — so your highlights flow automatically into the tools you already use.

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🪄 How It Works

Let’s walk through how to set it up in just a few steps 👇

Step 1: Sign Up for Glasp

Choose your preferred browser, such as Google Chrome, Brave, Safari, or Microsoft Edge.

In your browser’s address bar, type glasp.co and you’ll be taken directly to Glasp’s website. You can also access it from the link below.

👉 Glasp — Social Web Highlighter

Once you’re on the site, click Sign up and continue with your Google account.

You can sign up for Glasp with either Google Sign-in or Apple Sign-in. If you’re not an iPhone/iPad user, we strongly recommend you use Google Sign-in.

After finalizing your account, you will be taken to welcome page.

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Step 2: Get Your Glasp Access Token

To connect n8n with Glasp, you’ll need your personal API access token.

Once you’ve signed up for Glasp, go to Glasp Access Token, where you can get the access token. Click Generate (or copy your existing token)

💡 Keep your access token private. Don't share it publicly or commit it to a public repository.

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Step 3: Set Up n8n

If you don’t already have n8n, you can get started in two ways:

• n8n Cloud (hosted): Sign up at n8n.io — no installation needed

• Self-hosted: Run n8n locally with Docker or npm

Once n8n is running, you’re ready to import the workflow.

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Step 4: Import the Workflow

The workflow is published as an official n8n template. You can import it with just a few clicks — no need to copy-paste a URL.

1. Go to the Glasp Highlights Export template on n8n

Glasp Highlights Export template on n8n

2. Click “Use for free”

3. Choose one of the import options:

   • Copy template to clipboard (JSON) — then paste it into your n8n instance

   • Get started free with n8n cloud — if you don’t have an n8n account yet

   • Open self-hosting installation docs — if you prefer to self-host

If you chose “Copy template to clipboard (JSON)”, go to your n8n instance and press Cmd+V (Mac) or Ctrl+V (Windows). The workflow will be imported automatically.

Once imported, you should see the workflow with four nodes:

Schedule Trigger --> Prepare Parameters --> Glasp API --> Filter & Format

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Step 5: Configure Your Credentials

Once the workflow is imported, you need to add your Glasp credentials.

1. Open the Glasp API node (the HTTP Request node)

2. Confirm the settings:

   • Authentication: Generic Credential Type

   • Generic Auth Type: Bearer Auth

3. Click the Bearer Auth dropdown and select "+ Create new credential"

4. In the credential modal, paste your Glasp access token into the Bearer Token field

5. Save the credential

💡 Your access token is stored in n8n’s encrypted Credentials, never in the workflow JSON. Exported doc tracking auto-cleans after 30 days. No secrets in code.

Optional: Adjust the schedule frequency by clicking the Schedule Trigger node. Default: every 6 hours.

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Step 6: Test the Workflow

Click Execute Workflow at the bottom of the canvas. If everything is set up correctly, you should see your recent highlights flowing through each node.

The Filter & Format node outputs each document with these fields:

• title -- the article or page title

• url -- the original URL

• highlightsText -- all highlights as plain text

• highlightsMarkdown -- highlights formatted as Markdown

• highlightCount -- number of highlights

• tags, domain, category -- metadata

• highlights[] -- individual highlight objects with text, notes, and colors

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Step 7: Add a Destination

Now connect the output to wherever you want your highlights to go. Here are some popular examples:

Example: Notion

1. Add a Notion node --> Create Database Page

2. Connect your Notion account

3. Select your database

4. Map the fields:

• Title: {{ $json.title }}

• URL: {{ $json.url }}

• Highlights (as a Block): {{ $json.highlightsText }}

Make sure to add the n8n integration to your Notion database (Database ... menu --> Connections --> add your integration).

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Example: Slack

1. Add a Slack node --> Send Message

2. Connect your Slack account

3. Select your channel

4. Set Message Text:

{{ $json.title }}

{{ $json.url }}

{{ $json.highlightCount }} highlights

{{ $json.highlightsText }}

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Example: Google Sheets

1. Add a Google Sheets node --> Append Row

2. Connect your Google account

3. Select your spreadsheet

4. Map columns: title, url, domain, highlightCount, highlightsText, createdAt

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Example: Webhook / Custom API

1. Add an HTTP Request node

2. Set method to POST

3. Enter your webhook URL

4. Send {{ $json }} as JSON body

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Step 8: Activate the Workflow

Once you’ve tested everything and connected your destination, click Publish (top-right). The workflow is now active and will run automatically every 6 hours. You can change the frequency by clicking the Schedule Trigger node.

The Schedule Trigger node runs at your set interval (e.g., daily, hourly) and automatically exports any new highlights.

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(Optional) Step 9: Customize the Schedule

By default, the workflow runs every six hour. To change the frequency:

1. Double-click the Schedule Trigger node

2. Adjust the interval (e.g., every hour, every week, specific time)

3. Save and reactivate the workflow

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Your highlights shouldn’t stay siloed in one tool.

With Glasp + n8n, you can automatically route your reading insights to Slack, Notion, Google Sheets, or any of n8n’s 400+ integrations — turning passive highlighting into an active knowledge workflow.

If you haven’t already, sign up for Glasp and start building knowledge from everything you consume.

👉 Sign up for Glasp

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💡 Pro Tips

Go further with these resources:

👉 Glasp Highlights n8n Workflow — GitHub Repository — Source code, documentation, and workflow JSON

👉 How to Export Highlights & Notes to Notion — Manual export tutorial

👉 How to Export Highlights and Notes to Obsidian — Obsidian integration guide

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