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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.

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On a schedule
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Gmail
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Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
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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.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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

  1. Once a week ClickRuntime reads the blogs and news feeds you follow.

  2. It keeps only articles published in the last seven days.

  3. AI ranks them by how interesting they are and writes a one-line summary of each.

  4. 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

RunsOn a schedule
Send yourself a weekly newsletter from your feedstoday, 9:00Succeeded
Gmail · Your weekly reading1. Northwind open-sources its feature-flag service – why they moved off a vendor and what it cost. 2. Acme's guide to Postgres partitioning – practical limits at 2 TB.

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 Gmail 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.
personal_news_rss_newsletter_sent_from_my_gmail.pyexample
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

How many feeds can I follow?
As many as you like. Each is read on schedule, and the AI ranks across all of them. A larger set gives it more to choose from, while a short list works well for a tightly focused edition.
Can I send it to other people?
Yes. The email can go to a list of recipients, since it is sent from your Gmail. Keep the list small, because personal Gmail accounts have daily sending limits and are not meant for mass mailing.
How does it decide what is best?
The AI ranks items using guidance you give, such as favoring original reporting or topics in your field. If the picks do not match your taste, adjust the guidance and the next edition will reflect it.
What permissions does it need?
gmail.send. 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 (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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