Skip to content
ClickRuntime

Automate Netlify

Watch your Netlify sites: production deploys that fail or go live, and submissions coming in through Netlify Forms. Get the error message when a build breaks, the deploy URL when it's ready, and form entries sorted into leads, support and spam. Put the request to your AI assistant in plain words, approve the setup it suggests, and your sites stay watched from then on.

Add to ChatGPTAdd to Claude
Works inChatGPTClaudeClaude CodeCursorCodexVS CodeGemini CLIZedopencodeAny MCP client

Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 5 minutes, check my Netlify site marketing-site for failed production deploys and email me the error message for any new failure.

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

Ideas

What you can automate in Netlify

A heads-up when production breaks or goes live, and every contact form entry delivered or sorted so real enquiries get answered. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Every 5 minutes

Get emailed when a production deploy fails

A broken production build reaches you with Netlify's error message, while branch previews stay quiet.

See how it works
Every 5 minutes

Receive each Netlify form entry by email

Every new submission to your site's form arrives in your inbox with all its fields.

See how it works
Every 5 minutesAI

Sort form entries and send only leads to Slack

Each form entry is marked as lead, support or spam, and only the leads reach Slack with a short summary.

See how it works
Every 5 minutes

Hear when a production deploy is live

Slack tells you as soon as a new production deploy is ready, with its URL.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

See how to build your own

Build your own

Build any Netlify automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Netlify 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

Every 15 minutes, check Netlify for failed deploys and send me the site name with the error lines from the deploy log.

When a Netlify deploy succeeds, post the site and commit message to our Slack channel.

Every day, pull new Netlify form submissions, have AI filter out spam, add the rest to Google Sheets, and email me the real ones from Gmail.

Beyond chat

Have Netlify work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Netlify 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 Netlify

Netlify connects with a personal access token from your user settings. It carries your full account access, so give it an expiry date.

Netlify

Developer / Hosting

  1. In Netlify, go to User settings, then Applications, then Personal access tokens, and choose New access token.
  2. Give it a name and an expiration. Allow SAML team access only if the sites you want sit in a SAML-protected team.
  3. Generate the token and copy it.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, add it as a secret on Connections & secrets.

Good to know

Netlify limits that affect automations

  • Netlify tokens can't be limited to certain sites or actions; they act with your full user access. Use an expiry date and remove tokens you no longer need.
  • Resetting your Netlify password cancels every personal access token, so automations stop until you add a fresh one.
  • The API allows about 500 requests a minute, plenty for polling deploys and forms every five minutes.
  • Deploys started through the API are capped at 3 a minute and 100 a day.

FAQ

Questions about automating Netlify

What can ClickRuntime see in my Netlify account?
Everything your user can, because Netlify tokens aren't scope-restricted. The automations listed here only read deploys and form submissions.
Will I get alerts for branch previews too?
Not unless you ask. The failed deploy alert keeps only deploys in the production context, so preview builds don't fill your inbox.
How quickly does it notice a failed deploy or a new form entry?
These automations check Netlify every five minutes. Netlify can also call a webhook for failed deploys and form submissions if you want it sooner.
Does spam filtering of form entries need an AI key?
No. Sorting entries into lead, support or spam uses the AI that comes with your ClickRuntime plan. Plain form notifications don't use AI.
Is this a Netlify connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Netlify data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Netlify 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 Netlify event.

Related pages

Keep exploring

Tell your assistant what Netlify should do

Free plan. No credit card.

Add to ChatGPTAdd to Claude