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Log news from your feeds to a sheet with a daily Notion report

Each day, new items from your RSS feeds are categorised and summarised by AI, added to a sheet and collected into a report page in Notion.

Runs
Daily
Apps
Google Sheets, Notion
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Sheet edit; Notion insert

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day, pull my RSS feeds, categorise and summarise the new items into my News sheet, and write a daily report page in Notion.

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

An analyst at a small consultancy tracks news across a few sectors for client briefings. She follows trade publications, regulators and company blogs, and spends the first part of every day skimming them. The notes end up scattered, and when a client asks what changed last quarter, it means searching through bookmarks.

This automation reads your feeds once a day, skips items it has already seen and has AI give each new one a category and a two-line summary. Everything is added to a sheet you can filter and search, and a Notion page gives you that day's report to read or share.

What you get out of it

  • Skim a report instead of twenty sites

    One Notion page lists the day's news by category with short summaries. You read the headlines that matter and click through only when needed.

  • A searchable research archive

    Every item is a row with date, source, category and summary. Months later you can filter the sheet to answer a client's question.

  • Your categories, applied consistently

    You set the categories, such as regulation, funding or product launches. Every item is sorted the same way, whoever is reading.

  • Ready to share

    The daily Notion page can be shared with colleagues or used as the starting point for a client briefing.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every day, ClickRuntime reads the RSS feeds you listed.

  2. It skips items it has already logged, so each article appears once.

  3. AI gives each new item a category from your list and a two-line summary.

  4. The items are added as rows to your News sheet, and a report page for the day is created in Notion.

Before it runs live

  • Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
  • Connect Notion and share the database you want it to use

What you get

RunsDaily
Log news from your feeds to a sheet with a daily Notion reporttoday, 9:00Succeeded
Notion · Daily news[Regulation] New grid connection rules published: smaller solar sites get a faster approval route.

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 Google Sheets and Notion 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.
news_rss_research_logged_to_sheets_and_notion.pyexample
from datetime import date
import feedparser
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, ai, report_fetched

SHEET_ID, PARENT_PAGE = "your-spreadsheet-id", "your-notion-parent-page-id"
FEEDS = ["https://news.example.com/energy.rss", "https://regulator.example.org/updates.xml"]
SCHEMA = {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "object", "properties": {"category": {"type": "string"}, "summary": {"type": "string"}}}}

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    items = [e for f in FEEDS for e in feedparser.parse(http.get(f).content).entries if e.link not in seen][:40]
    report_fetched(len(items))
    if not items:
        return {"new": 0}
    lines = "\n".join(f"{i + 1}. {e.title}: {e.get('summary', '')[:400]}" for i, e in enumerate(items))
    try:
        out = ai.generate(lines, system="For each item give a category (Regulation, Funding, Product, Market, Other) and a two-line summary.", json_schema=SCHEMA, max_output_tokens=2000).json
    except ai.AIError:
        out = [{"category": "Unsorted", "summary": ""} for _ in items]
    rows = [[str(date.today()), e.title, o["category"], o["summary"], e.link] for e, o in zip(items, out)]
    build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets().values().append(
        spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="News!A:E", valueInputOption="USER_ENTERED", body={"values": rows}).execute()
    blocks = [{"object": "block", "type": "bulleted_list_item", "bulleted_list_item": {"rich_text": [{"text": {"content": f"[{r[2]}] {r[1]}: {r[3]}"[:1900], "link": {"url": r[4]}}}]}} for r in rows]
    http.post("https://api.notion.com/v1/pages", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('notion', 'work')}", "Notion-Version": "2022-06-28"},
              json={"parent": {"page_id": PARENT_PAGE}, "properties": {"title": {"title": [{"text": {"content": f"News {date.today()}"}}]}}, "children": blocks})
    state.set("seen", (list(seen) + [e.link for e in items])[-3000:])
    return {"new": len(items)}

FAQ

Common questions

How many feeds can I follow?
As many as you like within reason; a few dozen feeds is common. Items are summarised in batches to keep each run quick.
Can I set my own categories?
Yes. List the categories in the script and the AI picks one for each item, with Other for anything that does not fit.
Where does the Notion report go?
Each report is created as a new page under a parent page you choose, titled with the date, so they form a dated list.
What permissions does it need?
Sheet edit; Notion insert. 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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