Daily

Send a daily quiz question to Telegram and SMS

Every morning one new question from your list goes to your Telegram group and your SMS subscribers, with no repeats until the list runs out.

Runs: Daily
Apps: Telegram, Twilio
AI: Not needed
Access: Telegram bot; Twilio messaging

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning at 8, pick a question I haven't used yet from my quiz list and send it to my Telegram group as a poll and to my SMS list.

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 language teacher keeps students practising between lessons with one short question a day. Some students live in Telegram; others, often older learners, only read texts. Picking a question and sending it twice every morning is a chore that slips on busy days.

The list of questions is written once. Each morning a fresh one goes out to the Telegram group as a poll and to the SMS list as a text, and the teacher's mornings stay free.

What you get out of it

A habit that keeps going
A question at the same time every day builds a routine that students rely on, even when the teacher is away.
Reaches people where they read
Telegram polls for the chat-app crowd and texts for everyone else, from the same list.
No repeats
Questions already used are remembered, so nobody sees the same one twice until the whole list has been sent.
Polls show who's engaged
Telegram poll answers give a quick sense of how the group is doing.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every morning at the time you choose, ClickRuntime picks a question that hasn't been sent yet.
It posts the question to your Telegram group as a poll.
The same question, with lettered options, is texted to each number on your SMS list.
The question is marked as used so it won't come up again until the list is finished.

Before it runs live

Connect Telegram
Connect Twilio

What you get

RunsDaily

Send a daily quiz question to Telegram and SMStoday, 9:00Succeeded

Telegram · Spanish practice groupToday's question: Which word means 'library' in Spanish? A) librería B) biblioteca C) libro

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 Telegram and Twilio 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_quiz_question_via_telegram_and_sms.pyexample

import random
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state
from twilio.rest import Client

QUESTIONS = [{"q": "Which word means 'library' in Spanish?", "options": ["librería", "biblioteca", "libro"]}]
SMS_LIST = ["+15550101", "+15550102"]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    used = state.get("used") or []
    unused = [i for i in range(len(QUESTIONS)) if i not in used]
    if not unused:
        used, unused = [], list(range(len(QUESTIONS)))
    pick = random.choice(unused)
    item = QUESTIONS[pick]
    token = credentials.secret("TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN")
    http.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}/sendPoll",
              json={"chat_id": "-1001234567890", "question": item["q"], "options": item["options"]})
    sms = Client(credentials.secret("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID"), credentials.secret("TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN"))
    text = item["q"] + " " + " ".join(f"{'ABC'[i]}) {o}" for i, o in enumerate(item["options"]))
    for number in SMS_LIST:
        sms.messages.create(to=number, from_="+15550199", body=text)
    state.set("used", used + [pick])
    return {"sent": pick}

FAQ

Common questions

Where do the questions live?

In a list you give the automation when you set it up, with the answer options for each. You can add more at any time by asking your AI assistant to update it.

What happens when every question has been used?

It starts again from the top in a new order, so the daily message never stops. Add fresh questions whenever you like.

Do SMS subscribers see the answer options?

Yes. The text lists the options as A, B, C, and you can send the answer the next day with the new question.

What permissions does it need?

Telegram bot; Twilio messaging. 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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