Daily

Get today's birthdays every morning

Each morning you see which of your contacts have a birthday today.

Runs: Daily
Apps: Google Contacts
AI: Not needed
Access: read (contacts.readonly)

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 7:30am, message me in Slack with the names of any Google Contacts whose birthday is today.

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 small-business owner has 600 contacts, and about a quarter have birthdays saved in Google Contacts. Clients, suppliers and former colleagues all appreciate a quick message on their day, but she only remembers when Facebook tells her, and Facebook only knows some people. The ones who matter most professionally, like a long-standing supplier, get a late message or none at all. The cost is relationships that cool.

Every morning, ClickRuntime lists your Google Contacts connections with a birthday, matches today's month and day, and notifies you with the names of anyone celebrating. It is a short message that tells you who to greet before you open your inbox. It uses only Contacts data, so no AI is involved.

Account managers and recruiters use it to keep relationships warm without a separate CRM reminder.

What you get out of it

Relationships feel looked after
A timely greeting to a client or supplier shows you remember them as a person. Small gestures like that are remembered when contracts are renewed or referrals are being given out.
Works from the contacts you already keep
Birthdays saved in Google Contacts are used directly. You do not need to copy dates into a separate calendar or reminder app, so the reminder is only as much work as keeping contacts up to date.
Nothing to check each day
The notice arrives only on days when someone has a birthday. You are spared opening a calendar to look, and quiet days stay quiet. Most mornings that means a short and mostly empty inbox, with just the occasional note worth reading.
Helpful for people with large networks
When you know hundreds of people, memory fails. A daily list means a recruiter or consultant can keep in touch with past candidates and clients without a system that takes time to maintain.
Easy to personalize the message
Seeing the name first thing gives you time to write something genuine, such as mentioning a recent project. A personal note carries more weight than an automated greeting. A name and a minute of thought makes the greeting land.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every morning, ClickRuntime looks through your Google Contacts for saved birthdays.
It picks out everyone whose birthday falls on today's date.
A message goes to #reminders naming them, like "Birthdays today: Ana from Northwind, Chris". On days with no birthdays, nothing is sent.

Before it runs live

Connect Google Contacts

What you get

RunsDaily

Get today's birthdays every morningtoday, 9:00Succeeded

Slack · #reminders:birthday: Birthdays today: Ana from Northwind, Chris

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
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Google Contacts 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_birthday_reminders.pyexample

from datetime import date
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    resp = http.get("https://people.googleapis.com/v1/people/me/connections",
                    params={"personFields": "names,birthdays", "pageSize": 1000},
                    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('google', 'personal')}"})
    resp.raise_for_status()
    today = date.today()
    names = []
    for p in resp.json().get("connections", []):
        for b in p.get("birthdays", []):
            d = b.get("date", {})
            if d.get("month") == today.month and d.get("day") == today.day:
                names.append(p.get("names", [{}])[0].get("displayName", "Unnamed contact"))
                break
    if names:
        notify.slack(":birthday: Birthdays today: " + ", ".join(names), channel="#reminders")
    return {"birthdays": len(names)}

FAQ

Common questions

What if a contact has no birthday saved?

They are skipped, since there is nothing to match. The reminder only covers people whose birthday is stored in Google Contacts. Adding birthdays as you meet people makes the list more useful over time, and a quick edit in Contacts is all that is needed.

Does it handle birthdays without a year?

Yes. Many contacts have only a month and day, and that is all that is needed for a match. If the year is saved, the reminder can also mention the age, which some people like and others prefer to leave out.

How are 29 February birthdays handled?

Matching is by month and day, so a 29 February birthday only appears in leap years unless a rule is added. A common choice is to remind on 28 February in other years, so the person is not left out.

What permissions does it need?

read (contacts.readonly). Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's 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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