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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.
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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
Every day, ClickRuntime reads the RSS feeds you listed.
It skips items it has already logged, so each article appears once.
AI gives each new item a category from your list and a two-line summary.
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
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
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
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?
Can I set my own categories?
Where does the Notion report go?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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