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Get birthday reminders from your contacts on Telegram
Each morning a Telegram message lists today's birthdays from your Google Contacts, with a short greeting you can send.
- Runs
- Daily
- Apps
- Google Contacts, Telegram
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- contacts.readonly; bot token
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 7:30, check my Google Contacts for birthdays today and send me a Telegram message listing them, each with a short greeting I can copy.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Google Contacts stores birthdays, but it never tells you about them unless you also maintain a separate calendar. Clients, old colleagues and friends of friends slip by, and a message sent a day late lands very differently from one sent on the day.
Account managers, freelancers and anyone who keeps in touch with a wide network use it to make a small, personal gesture at the right moment, without keeping a second list of dates.
What you get out of it
You never find out a day late
The reminder arrives in the morning, on your phone, in a chat you already check. There is time to send a note before the day gets busy.
A greeting ready to send
Each name comes with a short message you can copy and adjust. It removes the pause of finding the right words, which is often why a greeting never gets sent.
One source of truth
Birthdays stay in Google Contacts, where they already are. There is no calendar to keep in sync and no spreadsheet of dates to update.
Quiet on days with no birthdays
No message is sent when nobody has a birthday, so the chat stays meaningful and you do not learn to ignore it.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every morning at the time you choose, ClickRuntime reads the birthdays saved in your Google Contacts.
It keeps only the contacts whose birthday is today. If there are none, nothing is sent.
AI writes a short, friendly greeting for each person.
You get one Telegram message from your bot listing each name with its greeting.
Before it runs live
- Connect Google Contacts
- Connect Telegram
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 Google Contacts and Telegram steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from datetime import date
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai
CHAT_ID = 123456789 # your Telegram chat with the bot
@on_trigger
def run(event):
people = build("people", "v1", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
today, found, token = date.today(), [], None
while True:
page = people.people().connections().list(resourceName="people/me", pageSize=1000, pageToken=token,
personFields="names,birthdays").execute()
for p in page.get("connections", []):
for b in p.get("birthdays", []):
d = b.get("date", {})
if d.get("month") == today.month and d.get("day") == today.day and p.get("names"):
found.append(p["names"][0]["displayName"])
token = page.get("nextPageToken")
if not token:
break
if not found:
return {"birthdays": 0}
lines = [f"๐ {name}: " + ai.generate(f"Write a warm one-sentence birthday message to {name}. No emojis.",
max_output_tokens=60).text.strip() for name in sorted(set(found))]
http.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{credentials.secret('TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN')}/sendMessage",
json={"chat_id": CHAT_ID, "text": "Birthdays today\n\n" + "\n".join(lines)}).raise_for_status()
return {"birthdays": len(found)}FAQ
Common questions
Does it include contacts without a birth year?
Can I get the reminder a few days early?
Can it send the greeting to the person directly?
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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