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Every 2 hours

Save relevant RSS articles to Notion with Telegram alerts

Articles from your feeds that match your topics are saved to Notion with a summary, and the best ones are sent to you on Telegram.

Runs
Every 2 hours
Apps
Notion, Telegram
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Notion write; bot token

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 2 hours, check my RSS feeds, keep the articles relevant to my topics, save them with summaries to my Notion Reading database and send me the top ones on Telegram.

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

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A content lead at a marketing agency follows two dozen industry blogs and newsletters to find material for client posts and her own newsletter. A feed reader shows everything, most of it irrelevant, and the good articles get lost before she has time to read them.

Filtering feeds by topic, saving the relevant articles with summaries to Notion and pinging only the best ones turns a firehose into a short reading list. Content marketers, analysts, newsletter writers and researchers use it to keep up with their field in a fraction of the time.

What you get out of it

  • Only the articles that matter

    Each new article is checked against your topics and the rest are dropped. You read a handful of relevant pieces instead of scrolling past hundreds.

  • A searchable library in Notion

    Every saved article has a summary, source and link in your Notion database. When you write about a subject, the research is already collected.

  • The important ones reach you fast

    The top articles are sent to Telegram as they appear. Timely stories can be shared with clients or used in a post the same day.

  • Summaries save reading time

    A short summary tells you whether an article is worth opening. You decide in seconds rather than reading the first few paragraphs of each one.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every 2 hours, ClickRuntime reads each of your RSS feeds.

  2. It skips articles it has already checked.

  3. AI decides which new articles match your topics, scores them and writes a short summary for each.

  4. Relevant articles are saved to your Notion Reading database, and the highest-scoring ones are sent to you on Telegram.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Notion and share the database you want it to use
  • Connect Telegram

What you get

RunsEvery 2 hours
Save relevant RSS articles to Notion with Telegram alertstoday, 9:00Succeeded
Telegram · Reading botWorth reading: Contoso Retail opens its ad network to outside brands. Northwind Analytics: what the new EU privacy guidance means for loyalty data.

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. 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.

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 Notion and Telegram steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
curate_rss_articles_into_notion_with_telegram_alerts.pyexample
import feedparser
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, ai, report_fetched

FEEDS = ["https://example.com/feed.xml", "https://blog.example.org/rss"]
TOPICS, DATABASE_ID, CHAT_ID = "retail media, privacy regulation, B2B pricing", "your-database-id", "your-chat-id"
SCHEMA = {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "object", "properties": {"n": {"type": "integer"}, "score": {"type": "integer"},
          "summary": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["n", "score", "summary"]}}

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    items = [e for f in FEEDS for e in feedparser.parse(http.get(f).content).entries if e.link not in seen]
    report_fetched(len(items))
    if not items:
        return {"summary": "Nothing new"}
    listing = "\n".join(f"{i}. {e.title}: {e.get('summary', '')[:300]}" for i, e in enumerate(items[:40]))
    picks = ai.generate(f"Topics: {TOPICS}\nReturn only articles relevant to the topics, with a 0-10 score and one-sentence summary:\n{listing}",
                        max_output_tokens=1500, json_schema=SCHEMA).json
    for p in picks:
        e = items[p["n"]]
        http.post("https://api.notion.com/v1/pages", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('notion', 'work')}",
                  "Notion-Version": "2022-06-28"}, json={"parent": {"database_id": DATABASE_ID}, "properties": {
                  "Name": {"title": [{"text": {"content": e.title[:200]}}]}, "URL": {"url": e.link},
                  "Summary": {"rich_text": [{"text": {"content": p["summary"]}}]}, "Score": {"number": p["score"]}}})
    top = [f"{items[p['n']].title}\n{items[p['n']].link}" for p in sorted(picks, key=lambda p: -p["score"])[:3] if p["score"] >= 7]
    if top:
        http.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{credentials.secret('TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN')}/sendMessage",
                  json={"chat_id": CHAT_ID, "text": "Worth reading:\n\n" + "\n\n".join(top)})
    state.set("seen", (list(seen) + [e.link for e in items])[-2000:])
    return {"new": len(items), "saved": len(picks)}

FAQ

Common questions

How do I set my topics?
List them in plain words, such as retail media, privacy regulation or B2B pricing. The topic list can be as broad or as narrow as you like, and changing it affects the next check.
What decides which articles go to Telegram?
Each relevant article gets a relevance score, and only those near the top are sent to Telegram. Everything relevant is still saved to Notion, so the Telegram message stays short.
Will I see the same article twice?
No. Every article that has been checked is remembered, so it is not saved or sent again even if the feed shows it for days.
What permissions does it need?
Notion write; bot token. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it runs (every 2 hours). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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