On a schedule
Send yourself a weekly newsletter from your feeds
Once a week your own newsletter arrives with the best posts from the blogs and sites you follow.
- Runs
- On a schedule
- Apps
- Gmail
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- gmail.send
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Monday at 8am, collect last week's posts from these RSS feeds, pick the best ten, summarise each in two lines and send them to me from my Gmail.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Following good sources used to mean opening a feed reader, scrolling hundreds of headlines and losing an evening. Most people give up, then miss the three posts that mattered. Writers who want to share what they read with friends or a team face an extra hurdle, because curating a weekly newsletter by hand takes hours that nobody has.
Once a week, the RSS feeds you follow are read and items published since the last edition are kept. ClickRuntime's built-in AI ranks them, writes a short summary of each of the best and the result goes out as an HTML email from your own Gmail, to you or to a list of friends and colleagues.
Curious readers, team leads who want to circulate industry news and anyone who would like a personal newsletter without a newsletter platform will use it.
What you get out of it
Stay informed in ten minutes
A ranked weekly edition of the best items from all your sources replaces a long evening of scrolling, with the stories worth your time put on top. Your reading time goes to the pieces that really deserve it.
Nothing is repeated between editions
Only items published since the previous edition are considered, so you never see the same article twice and each issue feels fresh. That keeps a weekly habit enjoyable for you and your readers.
Share expertise without extra work
A team lead can send the edition to colleagues, giving them useful industry news and positioning the sender as the person who keeps everyone current. Passing on useful information is a quiet way to build a reputation.
No newsletter service to pay for
Sending from your own Gmail avoids a subscription and a new login, which is sensible for a small list of people you actually know. Keeping it simple matters when the audience is only a few people.
Sources stay under your control
You choose the feeds, so the newsletter reflects your interests and professional field rather than whatever an algorithm decides to show. Personal taste is the whole point of a personal newsletter.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Once a week ClickRuntime reads the blogs and news feeds you follow.
It keeps only articles published in the last seven days.
AI ranks them by how interesting they are and writes a one-line summary of each.
The newsletter is sent from your own Gmail to your inbox, with a link to each article.
Before it runs live
- Connect Google through your own Google app (a one-time, 10-minute setup), so it works with your own Gmail
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 Gmail steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
import base64, time
from email.message import EmailMessage
import feedparser
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, ai
FEEDS = ["https://blog.example.com/feed", "https://news.example.org/rss"]
ME = "me@example.com"
@on_trigger
def run(event):
week_ago = time.time() - 7 * 86400
posts = [f"{e.title} | {e.link} | {e.get('summary', '')[:300]}"
for url in FEEDS for e in feedparser.parse(url).entries
if e.get("published_parsed") and time.mktime(e.published_parsed) > week_ago]
body = ai.generate("Pick the 10 most interesting posts and summarise each in two lines, with its link:\n"
+ "\n".join(posts[:80]), max_output_tokens=1200).text
msg = EmailMessage()
msg["To"], msg["Subject"] = ME, "Your weekly reading"
msg.set_content(body)
gmail = build("gmail", "v1", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
gmail.users().messages().send(userId="me", body={"raw": base64.urlsafe_b64encode(msg.as_bytes()).decode()}).execute()
return {"candidates": len(posts)}FAQ
Common questions
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