On a schedule

Send a morning newsletter from your RSS feed

At 9am your subscribers get a digest of the new posts on your blog, with nothing repeated.

Runs: On a schedule
Apps: Brevo
AI: Optional
Access: read+write

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 9am, collect new posts from https://example.com/feed, build an email digest, and send it through Brevo to my 'Newsletter' 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 blogger, a trade publication or a company with a busy news page wants to keep subscribers up to date without writing a newsletter by hand. Copying new posts into an email template every morning is repetitive, so it slips to weekly and then to never, while readers who would have clicked go to a competitor's feed instead.

Each morning, ClickRuntime fetches your RSS feed, skips items it has already sent, builds an HTML email from the new ones and creates and sends a campaign in Brevo, or a transactional email if you prefer. The goal is that subscribers get the digest at 9 am in their own time zone. If you want, built-in AI can write a short intro to open the digest.

It suits publishers and content teams whose feed is the real source of truth.

What you get out of it

Readers hear from you every day
A reliable morning digest builds a reading habit. Subscribers who see your name at the same time each day are more likely to open and click through to the site.
Traffic returns to your site
Every new article reaches the whole list without you remembering to promote it. Steady referral clicks from email add visits that would not otherwise come. Email often beats social media for steady return visits because subscribers chose to hear from you.
Duplicates are avoided
Skipping items already sent means readers never see yesterday's story twice. A digest with only fresh content feels curated and keeps unsubscribe rates down. A feed that republishes an old entry will not cause a repeat send, and that keeps subscribers happy with your frequency.
Time zones are respected
Delivering at 9 am in each subscriber's own time zone means the email arrives when people are checking mail. A single global send time reaches half of them at awkward hours.
Editorial time goes to writing
The feed already contains the content, so nobody builds the email by hand. Writers spend the morning on the next article rather than on layout. A solo creator can maintain a daily newsletter, which would otherwise be a part-time job, alongside writing.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every morning at 9 ClickRuntime reads your blog's RSS feed.
It skips any post it has already sent, so readers never get the same post twice. If there is nothing new, nothing is sent.
It builds a short email with a linked title for each new post, with the count and the first title in the subject line.
It creates the campaign in Brevo and sends it straight away to your newsletter list.

Before it runs live

Connect Brevo

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Send a morning newsletter from your RSS feedtoday, 9:00Succeeded

Brevo · Newsletter listSubject: 3 new posts: How Northwind cut onboarding time in half

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 Brevo 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.

morning_rss_newsletter_sent_with_brevo.pyexample

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from datetime import date
from html import escape
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state

FEED = "https://example.com/feed"
NEWSLETTER_LIST_ID = 3
SENDER = {"name": "Acme Weekly", "email": "news@acme.example"}

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    items = ET.fromstring(http.get(FEED).content).findall("./channel/item")
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    new = [i for i in items if i.findtext("link") not in seen]
    if not new:
        return {"sent": False}
    html = "<h2>New this morning</h2>" + "".join(
        f'<p><a href="{escape(i.findtext("link"))}">{escape(i.findtext("title"))}</a></p>' for i in new)
    h = {"api-key": credentials.secret("BREVO_API_KEY")}
    campaign = http.post("https://api.brevo.com/v3/emailCampaigns", headers=h, json={
        "name": f"RSS digest {date.today()}", "subject": f"{len(new)} new posts: {new[0].findtext('title')}",
        "sender": SENDER, "htmlContent": html, "recipients": {"listIds": [NEWSLETTER_LIST_ID]}}).json()
    http.post(f"https://api.brevo.com/v3/emailCampaigns/{campaign['id']}/sendNow", headers=h).raise_for_status()
    state.set("seen", list(seen | {i.findtext("link") for i in new})[-500:])
    return {"sent": len(new), "campaign": campaign["id"]}

FAQ

Common questions

What happens on a day with no new posts?

If there are no items beyond those already sent, the workflow has nothing to put in the email and can skip the campaign. That prevents empty or repeated digests from reaching subscribers. Brevo is not charged for a campaign that is not created.

Is the AI part required?

No. The AI step is optional and only writes a short opening line for the digest. Without it, the email is built directly from the feed items. When used, it runs on ClickRuntime's built-in AI with no separate key.

Does it send to my whole Brevo list?

It sends to the list or segment you choose in the Brevo campaign settings. You can limit it to a newsletter list so contacts on other lists are not included. Brevo's sending limits and its unsubscribe handling still apply.

What permissions does it need?

read+write. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No, but you can ask for an AI step (for example a summary). It then uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (on a schedule). 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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