On a schedule

Get a daily news digest in Discord

Each morning your server gets a short roundup of the top stories from the sites you follow.

Runs: On a schedule
Apps: Discord
AI: Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access: Send Messages

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 8am, check these news sites and blogs, summarise the top stories in a few bullet points, and post it to #news on my Discord.

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 server about machine learning, cybersecurity or a specific industry tends to fill up with members pasting links, and the best stories get buried or posted three times. Meanwhile the people who would find the news useful never see it because they have no time to follow thirty feeds. Someone usually ends up as the unofficial curator, and that person is the first to stop when life gets busy.

Each morning the automation fetches the feeds you listed over HTTP, drops any item it has already posted, and ClickRuntime's built-in AI turns what is new into a short digest. The digest is posted to the channel you pick, so the server starts the day with one readable roundup instead of a pile of loose links.

Study groups, developer communities and company Discords that follow a niche benefit from it.

What you get out of it

One post instead of thirty links
Members get a short readable roundup in one place. They can skim it over coffee and click only the items that matter to them, instead of scrolling through a channel of raw links where the best stories sit unread between jokes.
The curator can finally rest
The member who used to collect and post stories by hand is free to join the conversation instead. The digest keeps appearing even when that person is busy, ill or on holiday, so the habit that members rely on never lapses.
No repeated stories
Remembering which items were already posted prevents the same article appearing on three successive mornings. Repetition is the quickest way to make a digest feel like noise, and members stop reading once they have seen a story twice.
A shared starting point for discussion
When everyone has read the same three summaries, replies are more useful and less scattered. The digest gives the server a common topic to react to each morning, which tends to start better conversations than random links do.
Sources you control
You pick the feeds, so the digest reflects what your community cares about instead of an algorithm's idea of popular. Adding a niche blog or dropping a noisy site takes a one-line request, with no waiting on anyone else.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every day, ClickRuntime reads the news feeds you chose.
It drops stories it has already posted.
AI picks the most important new stories and writes a short digest with one line per story.
The digest is posted to your Discord channel, such as #news.

Before it runs live

Connect Discord

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Get a daily news digest in Discordtoday, 9:00Succeeded

Discord · #news**Today's news** • Chipmakers rally on new AI orders • EU agrees on data portability rules

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 Discord 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.

daily_ai_news_digest_posted_to_a_channel.pyexample

import re
from clickruntime import on_trigger, http, credentials, ai

NEWS_CHANNEL = "NEWS_CHANNEL_ID"
FEEDS = ["https://hnrss.org/frontpage", "https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml"]

def discord(method, path, **kw):
    r = http.request(method, f"https://discord.com/api/v10{path}",
                     headers={"Authorization": f"Bot {credentials.secret('DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN')}"}, **kw)
    r.raise_for_status()
    return r.json() if r.content else None

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    titles = []
    for url in FEEDS:
        xml = http.get(url).text
        titles += re.findall(r"<title>(?:<!\[CDATA\[)?(.*?)(?:\]\]>)?</title>", xml)[1:11]
    digest = ai.generate("Summarise the top stories as 5 short bullet points:\n" + "\n".join(titles),
                         max_output_tokens=400).text
    discord("POST", f"/channels/{NEWS_CHANNEL}/messages", json={"content": f"**Today's news**\n{digest}"[:2000]})
    return {"headlines": len(titles)}

FAQ

Common questions

Which feeds can it read?

Any RSS or Atom feed, and many sites that publish a JSON feed, can be fetched over HTTP. Pages without a feed are harder to use, so give your AI assistant the feed addresses for the sites you follow and it will set them up in one go.

What if there is no new news on a given morning?

If every item was already posted, there is nothing new to summarize, so the automation can skip posting rather than send an empty digest. Quiet days stay quiet, and members are not trained to ignore the channel because it posts filler.

How long is each summary?

The digest is kept short, usually a line or two per story with a link back to the source. If your members want more detail, or a stricter length limit, you can tell your AI assistant to reword the entries and approve the result.

What permissions does it need?

Send Messages. 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 (on a schedule). 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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