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Automate beehiiv

Follow how your beehiiv newsletter grows and how each issue lands. New subscribers and their source are posted as they sign up, a Monday report shows readers gained and lost, each post gets a performance recap a day after it is sent, and survey answers reach your team. Describe what you want to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running with your laptop closed.

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Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: whenever someone subscribes to my beehiiv newsletter, post their email and UTM source to #growth in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in beehiiv

Sign-ups as they happen, a weekly growth count, a next-day recap for every issue, and reader survey answers in one place. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happens

Post new beehiiv subscribers to Slack

Each new reader appears in Slack with their email and where they signed up from.

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Collects as they arrive, acts daily

Get your weekly subscriber gains and losses

Every Monday you see how many readers joined, how many left, and your current total.

See how it works
Collects as they arrive, acts daily

Get a recap a day after each issue

24 hours after a post goes out, you get its open rate, click rate and the links readers clicked most.

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The moment it happens

Share reader survey answers in Slack

When a reader answers one of your surveys, the response is posted for the team to read.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with beehiiv, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any beehiiv automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what beehiiv should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Two days after each beehiiv post goes out, email me its open and click rate compared to my last 5 issues.

Every day, add yesterday's new beehiiv subscribers and their source to my Growth sheet in Google Sheets.

When a new row is added to my Partners sheet in Google Sheets, add the person as a beehiiv subscriber and post their name in #newsletter on Slack.

Beyond chat

Have beehiiv work when you're not in the chat

Connecting beehiiv to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect beehiiv

You connect beehiiv with an API key from your own workspace. Workspace Owners and Admins can create one.

beehiiv

Newsletter

  1. Sign in to beehiiv as a workspace Owner or Admin and open Settings, then Workspace Settings, then API.
  2. Click Create New API Key. You can limit the key to specific publications if you only want some of them automated.
  3. Copy the key straight away, because beehiiv shows it only once. Also copy the Publication ID (it starts with pub_) for each publication you want to use.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret for beehiiv. It is sent as a Bearer token.

Good to know

beehiiv limits that affect automations

  • Creating and sending posts through the API needs the beehiiv Pro or Enterprise plan. Reading subscribers and post stats does not.
  • Subscriber and post-sent alerts use beehiiv webhooks, so they arrive as soon as beehiiv sends the event.
  • The weekly growth report counts sign-ups and unsubscribes as they arrive, so its first report covers only the time since the automation was set up.

FAQ

Questions about automating beehiiv

What can ClickRuntime see in beehiiv?
What your API key can reach in your publication: subscribers and their sign-up source, publication stats, post performance and webhook events.
Can it publish or send newsletters for me?
Creating posts through beehiiv's API is limited to the Pro and Enterprise plans. The automations here read and report; they don't send issues.
When does the post recap arrive?
The send is recorded when the post goes out, and 24 hours later you get its open rate, click rate and top links.
Do I need AI for beehiiv automations?
No. These alerts and reports run without it. If you ask for a written summary on top, it uses the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so no AI key is needed.
Is this a beehiiv connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with beehiiv data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change beehiiv while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each beehiiv event.

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