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Post about trending topics on Facebook and log each post
Each day a post about a trending topic in your field goes out on your Facebook Page, and it's logged in your sheet with its link.
- Runs
- Daily
- Apps
- Facebook Pages, Google Sheets
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- pages_manage_posts, pages_read_engagement; Sheet edit
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 10, pick a trending topic from my industry feeds, write a Facebook post about it, publish it to my Page and log the topic, text and post id in my Posts sheet.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
A local fitness studio wants its Facebook Page to feel active, but the owner teaches all day and only posts when there's a promotion. The Page looks quiet between offers, and followers drift away.
Each weekday a short post about something people in fitness are talking about goes out on the Page. Every post is logged in a sheet with its topic, text and link, so the owner can see what was published and which topics got a response.
What you get out of it
A Page that stays active
Regular, relevant posts keep followers engaged between promotions.
Timely topics
Posts follow what people in your field are discussing this week, not a stale list of ideas.
A full record in the sheet
Every post's topic, text and link are logged, so nothing published is a mystery.
No repeated topics
Topics already covered are skipped, so followers don't see the same subject twice.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every weekday morning, ClickRuntime reads your chosen news feeds for the latest topics.
It skips topics it has already posted about.
AI writes a short Facebook post about the top new topic, and it is published to your Page.
A row is added to your sheet with the date, topic, text and post id.
Before it runs live
- Connect Facebook Pages
- Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
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.
Changes you can ask for
- Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
- Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Facebook Pages and Google Sheets steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from datetime import date
import feedparser
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai, state
PAGE_ID, SHEET_ID = "1234567890", "your-spreadsheet-id"
@on_trigger
def run(event):
posted = state.get("posted") or []
items = [e for e in feedparser.parse("https://www.reddit.com/r/fitness/top/.rss?t=day").entries if e.link not in posted]
if not items:
return {"posted": 0}
item = items[0]
text = ai.generate(f"Write a friendly 3-sentence Facebook post for a fitness studio about: {item.title}",
max_output_tokens=200).text
post = http.post(f"https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/{PAGE_ID}/feed",
data={"message": text, "access_token": credentials.connection("facebook", "work")}).json()
sheets = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
sheets.spreadsheets().values().append(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Posts!A:D", valueInputOption="USER_ENTERED",
body={"values": [[date.today().isoformat(), item.title, text, post["id"]]]}).execute()
state.set("posted", (posted + [item.link])[-200:])
return {"post": post["id"]}FAQ
Common questions
Where do the trending topics come from?
Can I check posts before they go live?
Can it add an image?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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