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Share the day's top story in your field on LinkedIn and X

Each day a trending story in your field is picked and shared on LinkedIn and X with a short take, never the same story twice.

Runs: Daily
Apps: LinkedIn, X
AI: Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access: LinkedIn w_member_social; X tweet.write

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 8, pick the top story from my industry feeds that I haven't shared yet, write a short take for LinkedIn and X, and post both.

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 fintech product lead wants to be known for keeping up with the industry, but reading every newsletter and posting a take each day isn't realistic alongside the actual job.

Each weekday morning the day's top story from trusted feeds is shared on LinkedIn and X with a short opinion. Stories already shared are skipped, so the feed stays fresh.

What you get out of it

Visible every day
A daily post keeps you in your network's feed.
Curated from sources you trust
Only your chosen feeds are used.
A view, not just a link
Each post adds a short take, which gets more engagement.
Never repeats a story
Shared stories are remembered.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every weekday morning, ClickRuntime reads your chosen industry feeds.
It skips stories you've already shared and picks the top new one.
AI writes a short take for LinkedIn and a shorter one for X.
Both are posted with the link, and the story is remembered.

Before it runs live

Connect LinkedIn
Connect X

What you get

RunsDaily

Share the day's top story in your field on LinkedIn and Xtoday, 9:00Succeeded

X · @northwindpayInstant payouts are becoming table stakes for marketplaces. The real fight is now over fraud checks. news.example.org/...

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 LinkedIn and X 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_trending_news_and_post_it_on_linkedin_and_x.pyexample

import feedparser
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai, state

AUTHOR = "urn:li:person:abc123"
FEEDS = ["https://news.example.org/fintech.rss", "https://feeds.example.com/payments.rss"]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    shared = state.get("shared") or []
    story = next((e for f in FEEDS for e in feedparser.parse(f).entries if e.link not in shared), None)
    if not story:
        return {"posted": False}
    posts = ai.generate(f"Story: {story.title}. Short opinionated take for LinkedIn (under 700 chars) and for X (under 220 chars).",
                        max_output_tokens=400, json_schema={"type": "object",
                        "properties": {"linkedin": {"type": "string"}, "x": {"type": "string"}}}).json
    http.post("https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts",
              headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('linkedin', 'work')}", "LinkedIn-Version": "202409"},
              json={"author": AUTHOR, "commentary": posts["linkedin"], "visibility": "PUBLIC", "lifecycleState": "PUBLISHED",
                    "distribution": {"feedDistribution": "MAIN_FEED"}, "content": {"article": {"source": story.link, "title": story.title}}})
    http.post("https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets", json={"text": f"{posts['x']} {story.link}"},
              headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('x', 'work')}"})
    state.set("shared", (shared + [story.link])[-500:])
    return {"story": story.title}

FAQ

Common questions

How is the top story chosen?

The newest item across your feeds that hasn't been shared, or the one appearing in the most feeds if you choose that.

Can I avoid certain sources or topics?

Yes. List words or sites to skip in the prompt.

Can I post to only one network some days?

Yes. Ask for weekends to be LinkedIn-only, for example.

What permissions does it need?

LinkedIn w_member_social; X tweet.write. 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 (daily). 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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