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Log a daily snapshot of your monday.com board

Every evening each item's status on your monday.com board is saved to a sheet, building a history for reporting.

Runs
Daily
Apps
Google Sheets, monday.com
AI
Not needed
Access
monday.com read; Sheets edit

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 6pm, copy every item on my Projects board in monday.com, with its status, owner and due date, into a new set of rows in my Board History sheet with today's date.

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

monday.com shows where work stands today, but not where it stood last week. Managers who want to know how long items sat in review, or how the backlog changed over a month, have nothing to compare against.

Saving a dated snapshot of the board every day builds that history in a sheet. Pivot tables and charts then answer questions the board alone cannot.

What you get out of it

  • History you can analyse

    Daily snapshots show how each item's status changed over time, ready for pivots and charts.

  • Reports in tools you know

    Anyone comfortable with Google Sheets can build reports, without board admin access.

  • Spot bottlenecks

    Seeing how many days items spent in each status shows where work gets stuck.

  • A record for reviews

    Snapshots are a dependable record for retrospectives and client reporting.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every evening ClickRuntime reads every item on your monday.com board.

  2. It records each item's name, status, owner and due date with today's date.

  3. The rows are added to the bottom of your history sheet, building a day-by-day record.

Before it runs live

  • Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
  • Connect monday.com

What you get

RunsDaily
Log a daily snapshot of your monday.com boardtoday, 9:00Succeeded
Google Sheets · History2026-10-19 · Northwind site launch · Working on it · Sam · 2026-10-30 2026-10-19 · Acme report · Done · Priya · 2026-10-15

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 Sheets and monday.com 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_monday_com_status_snapshot_in_google_sheets.pyexample
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from datetime import date
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http

SHEET_ID, BOARD = "your-spreadsheet-id", 1234567890
ITEMS = """query ($board: [ID!]) { boards(ids: $board) { items_page(limit: 200) { items {
  id name url column_values { id text } } } } }"""
def monday(query, **variables):
    resp = http.post("https://api.monday.com/v2", json={"query": query, "variables": variables},
                     headers={"Authorization": credentials.secret("MONDAY_API_TOKEN"), "API-Version": "2024-10"})
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return resp.json()["data"]

def sheets():
    return build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets().values()

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    items = monday(ITEMS, board=[BOARD])["boards"][0]["items_page"]["items"]
    today = date.today().isoformat()
    rows = []
    for i in items:
        c = {v["id"]: v["text"] for v in i["column_values"]}
        rows.append([today, i["name"], c.get("status") or "", c.get("person") or "", c.get("date") or ""])
    if rows:
        sheets().append(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="History!A:E", valueInputOption="RAW", body={"values": rows}).execute()
    return {"items": len(rows)}

FAQ

Common questions

Won't the sheet get very large?
Each day adds one row per item. A board of 200 items adds about 6,000 rows a month, well within Google Sheets' limits for a year or more. Older rows can be archived to another tab.
Which columns are saved?
The date, item name, status, owner and due date by default. Any other column can be added.
Can it snapshot several boards?
Yes. List the boards and a column records which board each row came from.
What permissions does it need?
monday.com read; Sheets edit. 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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