Daily

Get today's Hootsuite posts by email each morning

Every morning I get one email listing what's scheduled to go out today across all profiles.

Runs: Daily
Apps: Hootsuite
AI: Not needed
Access: OAuth token (offline)

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 7:30am, email me the Hootsuite posts scheduled for today across all profiles, with the time, profile and text of each.

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

Social media managers using Hootsuite schedule weeks of content in advance, and the details blur. Which posts go out today? Does the product launch teaser still carry last week's discount code? Is the Friday giveaway post actually queued? Checking means opening the planner and clicking through networks, and mistakes are only discovered when a customer replies to a post that should not have gone out, or when nothing goes out at all. Small errors become public quickly.

Each morning, messages in the SCHEDULED state for today are listed and one email shows what is going out, on which network and at what time. It is a clear checklist for the day.

It suits social media managers, marketing leads and agencies who need to check a queue before it goes live.

What you get out of it

Mistakes are caught before they publish
A wrong link, an outdated promotion or a typo can be fixed in the morning, before thousands of followers see it. Correcting a post privately in the morning is easier than deleting it publicly after it has been seen and screenshotted.
Content stays relevant to current events
If news breaks overnight, you can pause or change a scheduled post that would now sound tone-deaf, avoiding a public mistake. A scheduled post that sounded fine on Friday can look insensitive after a news event on Monday.
Everyone knows what is going out
Marketing, support and sales see the posts of the day, so they are ready for questions and replies in the comments. Replies, questions and complaints arrive faster than expected, so people who know the content are better placed to answer them.
Agency clients stay informed
A morning digest is a simple way to show clients what is scheduled, without giving them access to the planner. That lighter-touch visibility reassures clients and reduces the number of check-in emails an account manager receives.
Gaps in the plan are visible
If an important network or time slot is empty, you notice while there is still time to post something. Filling a slot with a quick post is much better than leaving an important network quiet for the day.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every morning, ClickRuntime asks Hootsuite for the posts scheduled to go out for the rest of today.
It sorts them by time across all your profiles.
You get one email listing each post's send time, profile and the start of its text. If nothing is scheduled, the email says so.

Before it runs live

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What you get

RunsDaily

Get today's Hootsuite posts by email each morningtoday, 9:00Succeeded

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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 Hootsuite 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_scheduled_posts_digest.pyexample

from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, notify, http

def messages(state_name, start, end):
    resp = http.get("https://platform.hootsuite.com/v1/messages",
                    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('hootsuite', 'work')}"},
                    params={"state": state_name, "startTime": start.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"),
                            "endTime": end.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"), "limit": 100})
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return resp.json()["data"]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    start = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
    end = start.replace(hour=23, minute=59, second=59)
    posts = sorted(messages("SCHEDULED", start, end), key=lambda m: m["scheduledSendTime"])
    lines = [f"{m['scheduledSendTime'][11:16]}  profile {m['socialProfile']['id']}: {m['text'][:140]}" for m in posts]
    notify.email_me(f"Hootsuite: {len(posts)} posts today", "\n".join(lines) or "Nothing scheduled for today.")
    return {"posts": len(posts)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it include posts on every network?

It lists scheduled messages across the social profiles connected to your Hootsuite account, with the network named on each line, so you can see all channels in one place. Each line names the network so mixed channels are easy to scan.

Which time zone are post times shown in?

The time zone you set for the digest, which should match your audience or your team. Mismatched zones are a common source of confusion, so choose one and keep it consistent. Consistency matters more than the particular zone you choose.

Can a client or boss receive it instead?

Yes. The email can go to any address, including a client. Check that sharing scheduled content early is acceptable, since it may contain unannounced news. A shorter digest of the key items is another option.

What permissions does it need?

OAuth token (offline). 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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