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Get a morning news digest from feeds and YouTube in Telegram

Each morning Telegram brings you a short AI digest of new videos and headlines on the topics you follow.

Runs
Daily
Apps
Telegram, YouTube
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
API key; bot token

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning at 7am, collect new videos from my YouTube channels and headlines from my RSS feeds from the last day, have AI write a short digest grouped by topic, and send it to my Telegram.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

An analyst tracks an industry through a mix of news sites, blogs and YouTube channels. Every morning they open a dozen tabs and skim for anything important. Most days there is nothing, but on the days there is, they cannot afford to miss it.

One digest that pulls everything together and groups it by topic replaces the morning tab-opening with a two-minute read in Telegram.

What you get out of it

  • Everything in one place

    Videos and articles arrive together, grouped by topic, instead of across a dozen sites.

  • A two-minute read

    AI keeps the digest short and points out what is genuinely new.

  • Links when you want more

    Every item links to the source, so you can dig into the ones that matter.

  • Your own sources

    You choose the feeds and channels, so the digest reflects your field, not a news app's idea of it.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every morning, ClickRuntime reads your RSS feeds and the latest uploads from your YouTube channels.

  2. It keeps only items published in the last day.

  3. AI writes a short digest grouped by topic, with a link for each item.

  4. The digest is sent to you on Telegram.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Telegram
  • Connect YouTube

What you get

RunsDaily
Get a morning news digest from feeds and YouTube in Telegramtoday, 9:00Succeeded
Telegram · Morning digestPayments: Acme Pay launches instant payouts in the EU (article). Northwind Bank explains its new fraud checks (video, 12 min)…

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 Telegram and YouTube 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_news_digest_from_rss_and_youtube_to_telegram.pyexample
import time
import feedparser
from clickruntime import on_trigger, http, credentials, ai

YT = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3"

def yt(path, **params):
    return http.get(f"{YT}/{path}", params={**params, "key": credentials.secret("YOUTUBE_API_KEY")}).json().get("items", [])

CHAT_ID = "123456789"

def tg(method, **params):
    r = http.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{credentials.secret('TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN')}/{method}", json=params)
    return r.raise_for_status() or r.json()["result"]

FEEDS = ["https://www.example.com/feed", "https://blog.example.org/rss"]
UPLOADS = ["UUxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    cutoff = time.time() - 86400
    items = []
    for url in FEEDS:
        for e in feedparser.parse(http.get(url).content).entries:
            if e.get("published_parsed") and time.mktime(e.published_parsed) > cutoff:
                items.append(f"[article] {e.title} {e.link}")
    for pl in UPLOADS:
        for i in yt("playlistItems", part="snippet", playlistId=pl, maxResults=5):
            if i["snippet"]["publishedAt"] >= time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(cutoff)):
                items.append(f"[video] {i['snippet']['channelTitle']}: {i['snippet']['title']} https://youtu.be/{i['snippet']['resourceId']['videoId']}")
    digest = ai.generate("\n".join(items[:150]) or "Nothing new.", system="Write a short morning digest grouped by topic. "
                         "One line per item with its link. Under 250 words.", max_output_tokens=700).text
    tg("sendMessage", chat_id=CHAT_ID, text=digest[:4000], disable_web_page_preview=True)
    return {"items": len(items)}

FAQ

Common questions

Which sources can it read?
Any website with an RSS or Atom feed, and any public YouTube channel.
Can it watch competitors?
Yes. Add competitors' blogs and channels to the list and ask the digest to call out anything they publish.
What if a day is quiet?
The digest says so in one line rather than padding it out.
What permissions does it need?
API key; bot token. 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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