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Share new articles on LinkedIn, tracked in a sheet

Each new article from your blog or a news feed becomes a LinkedIn post, and your sheet makes sure nothing is posted twice.

Runs
Every hour
Apps
Google Sheets, LinkedIn
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
LinkedIn w_member_social; Sheets edit

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every hour, read my blog and news feeds. For any article not already in my LinkedIn sheet, write a short post, publish it to LinkedIn and add the article to the sheet.

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 recruitment firm shares its own blog posts and relevant industry news on LinkedIn. Two people do the sharing, and without a shared record the same article sometimes goes out twice while others are missed.

The sheet is now the record. Each new article is checked against it, posted to LinkedIn with a short intro, and added to the sheet, so the team always knows what's been shared.

What you get out of it

  • One shared record

    The sheet shows every article posted, for the whole team.

  • No double posts

    Articles already in the sheet are skipped.

  • Own content and news together

    Blog posts and industry news both get shared.

  • A written intro for each

    Posts explain why the article matters, not just the link.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every hour, ClickRuntime reads your blog and news feeds.

  2. It checks each article's link against your sheet and skips any already there.

  3. AI writes a short intro for each new article, and it's posted to LinkedIn.

  4. The article is added to your sheet with the date and post link.

Before it runs live

  • Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
  • Connect LinkedIn

What you get

RunsEvery hour
Share new articles on LinkedIn, tracked in a sheettoday, 9:00Succeeded
LinkedIn · Northwind TalentFour-day weeks are moving from pilot to policy. Here's what candidates are asking us about it.

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

  • Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
  • 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 LinkedIn 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.
share_new_blog_and_news_articles_on_linkedin_tracked_in_sheets.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, ai, report_fetched

AUTHOR, SHEET_ID = "urn:li:organization:12345", "your-spreadsheet-id"
FEEDS = ["https://blog.northwind-talent.example/feed", "https://news.example.org/hr.rss"]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    values = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets().values()
    shared = {r[0] for r in values.get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Shared!B2:B").execute().get("values", []) if r}
    new = [e for f in FEEDS for e in feedparser.parse(f).entries if e.link not in shared][:3]
    report_fetched(len(new))
    if not new:
        return {"summary": "Nothing new"}
    for e in new:
        intro = ai.generate(f"Two-sentence LinkedIn intro for a recruitment firm sharing: {e.title}", max_output_tokens=120).text.strip()
        http.post("https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts",
                  headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('linkedin', 'work')}", "LinkedIn-Version": "202409"},
                  json={"author": AUTHOR, "commentary": intro, "visibility": "PUBLIC", "lifecycleState": "PUBLISHED",
                        "distribution": {"feedDistribution": "MAIN_FEED"}, "content": {"article": {"source": e.link, "title": e.title}}})
        values.append(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Shared!A:C", valueInputOption="USER_ENTERED",
                      body={"values": [[date.today().isoformat(), e.link, e.title]]}).execute()
    return {"shared": len(new)}

FAQ

Common questions

Can I add articles to the sheet by hand?
Yes. Any link you add yourself is treated as already shared and won't be posted.
How many articles a day will it post?
You can set a daily cap, such as three, so busy news days don't flood your feed.
Can I pause it?
Turn the automation off in your ClickRuntime dashboard and turn it back on when you're ready. Articles published meanwhile are picked up then.
What permissions does it need?
LinkedIn w_member_social; Sheets edit. 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 checks. Checks that find nothing new 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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