Automated Plagiarism Detection with Email Reports using RapidAPI & Google Sheets

Description

🚀 Automated Plagiarism Checker Using Rapid API & Google Sheet logging

📄 Description

This powerful no-code workflow automates plagiarism detection using Plagiarism Checker AI Powered. Users submit text through Google Sheets. The system checks for duplication using the API, sends a detailed HTML report via email, and logs the results — all without human intervention.

🔧 How the Workflow Works

| Node Name | Purpose |
| -------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Trigger - New Row in Google Sheet | Watches for new rows added to a connected Google Sheet. |
| Send Content to Plagiarism API | Sends the user-submitted content to the Plagiarism Checker AI Powered API via POST. |
| Check API Response Success | Verifies if the API responded successfully and returned results. |
| Extract Plagiarism Results | Extracts matched results (if any) from the API response. |
| Generate HTML Plagiarism Report | Creates a styled HTML report with similarity scores, links, and matched content. |
| Send Report to User via Email | Sends the plagiarism report to the user using SMTP. |
| Mark Status: Success in Google Sheet | Updates the Google Sheet with a "Success" status once the email is sent. |
| Send Failure Alert to IT | If the API check fails, sends an alert email to IT for investigation. |
| Mark Status: Failed in Google Sheet | Updates the Google Sheet with a "Failed" status if the process doesn’t complete successfully. |

🧾 Google Sheet Configuration

✅ Required Columns:

| Column Name | Description |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------- |
| Content | The text to be checked for plagiarism |
| Status | Workflow result (Success / Failed) |

Make sure these column headers exist in Row 1 of your Google Sheet.

📊 How to Connect Google Sheets to n8n

Create a new Google Sheet.
In n8n, use the Google Sheets Trigger node:

Set your document ID (from the sheet’s URL).
Specify the sheet name (e.g., Sheet1 or use gid=0).
Use Google Sheets (service account) credential type for writing updates.

🔑 How to Get a RapidAPI Key for Plagiarism Checker AI Powered

Go to Plagiarism Checker AI Powered API.
Sign up or log in to RapidAPI.
Subscribe to the free or paid plan.
Copy your x-rapidapi-key and paste it into the Send Content to Plagiarism API node's header.

🧠 Use Cases

Educators verifying student submissions
Content marketers validating blog originality
Academic institutions enforcing anti-plagiarism policies
Editors reviewing freelance work

✅ Benefits

⚙️ 100% Automated: Set once, run forever
📨 Instant Reports: Plagiarism reports delivered via email
📋 Easy Tracking: Status updates in Google Sheet
🛡️ Alerts Built-in: Automatic error notification to IT
🔗 Uses Plagiarism Checker AI Powered API to ensure accuracy and scalability

📘 Bonus Tips

Ensure you handle Google API scopes properly (Editor or Owner access).
Always test with small content first before scaling up.
Plagiarism Checker AI Powered API supports sentence-level matching and source URLs.