Daily

Get a morning summary of your RSS feeds

New articles from your feeds arrive as one list of bullets, without repeats from earlier days.

Runs: Daily
Apps: Google Gemini
AI: Not needed
Access: API key

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: at 7am every day, read these four RSS feeds, summarise only the new articles in bullets with the Google Gemini API, and email it to me.

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 founder follows twenty RSS feeds: industry news, competitor blogs, a few newsletters and two subreddits. Opening each one takes half an hour, and since feeds repeat stories and republish old items, she often reads the same announcement three times and misses the one article that matters. When she skips a few days, the backlog is so big that she gives up and ignores everything.

Each morning, ClickRuntime fetches your feeds, removes any item it already included before, and sends the new items to Gemini through its generateContent call. Gemini writes a short digest that groups related stories and gives each a line or two plus the link. The finished digest is emailed to you.

It is a good fit for people who need to stay informed in a fast-moving field without making the reading a habit of its own.

What you get out of it

Thirty minutes of scanning becomes five
A grouped summary with links lets you decide what is worth opening. You read the three stories that matter in full and leave the rest at a glance. That time goes back to work.
Repeated stories only appear once
Remembering which items were already sent means the same product launch does not come back each day from different feeds. Your digest stays short and shows only what is new.
Related news grouped together
When four sources cover the same announcement, the digest can put them under one heading. That gives a fuller view of one event than reading four separate summaries. You get the whole picture in one place.
You stay informed on weak days
A busy week or a holiday does not break the habit, because the digest arrives anyway. Catching up means reading one email, not scrolling through a week of unread items.
Early awareness of competitor moves
A competitor's new pricing page or feature post is easy to miss in a noisy feed. When it is condensed into a single line next to its link, it is much more likely to be noticed the same day.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every morning, ClickRuntime checks your news feeds for new articles.
It skips any article already included in an earlier digest.
Gemini summarises the new stories as bullet points, one per story, each with its link.
You get one email with the digest. If nothing is new, no email is sent.

Before it runs live

Connect Google Gemini

What you get

RunsDaily

Get a morning summary of your RSS feedstoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Morning news• Chipmakers report record quarter on AI demand (bbc.co.uk/news/...)

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 Gemini 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_rss_digest_written_by_gemini.pyexample

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, notify, http, state

def gemini(body, model="gemini-2.5-flash"):
    resp = http.post(f"https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/{model}:generateContent",
                     headers={"x-goog-api-key": credentials.secret("GEMINI_API_KEY")}, json=body, timeout=120)
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return resp.json()["candidates"][0]

FEEDS = ["https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml", "https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml",
         "https://hnrss.org/frontpage", "https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index"]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    new = []
    for feed in FEEDS:
        for item in ET.fromstring(http.get(feed).content).iter("item"):
            link = item.findtext("link")
            if link and link not in seen:
                new.append(f"{item.findtext('title')} ({link})")
                seen.add(link)
    if not new:
        return {"new": 0}
    out = gemini({"contents": [{"parts": [{"text": "Summarise these new articles as bullets, one per story, "
                                                   "keeping the link:\n" + "\n".join(new[:80])}]}]})
    notify.email_me(f"News digest: {len(new)} new articles", out["content"]["parts"][0]["text"])
    state.set("seen", sorted(seen)[-2000:])
    return {"new": len(new)}

FAQ

Common questions

Do I need my own Gemini API key?

Your AI step runs through the Gemini API, so the key is stored as a secret in ClickRuntime and is never shown in the automation. Follow your AI assistant's prompts to create one, and keep an eye on your Gemini usage and pricing.

How many feeds can it handle?

Dozens of feeds work fine. For very large lists, the digest can be capped at a number of items per feed or per day, so a prolific site does not crowd out smaller ones. You choose how many items go into each email.

Can I get the digest in another language or format?

Yes. You can ask for the summary in Spanish, as short bullets, or as a longer paragraph per topic. The language and style are part of the instruction sent to Gemini, so you adjust them by describing what you want.

What permissions does it need?

API key. 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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