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Track websites and subreddits in Notion with a daily email

New posts and page changes from the sites and subreddits you watch are summarised into Notion, with highlights emailed to you.

Runs
Daily or weekly
Apps
Gmail, Notion
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Notion insert; Gmail gmail.send

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 8, check these pages and subreddits for new content, summarise what's new into a Notion page and email me the highlights.

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

A founder of a niche product wants to know when customers discuss their category on Reddit, when a competitor changes their pricing page, or when an industry blog posts something relevant. Checking a dozen pages every morning takes time, and most days nothing important has changed.

Watching those sources automatically and writing up only what is new means the morning check takes two minutes. Notion keeps a dated archive of everything found, and the email gives you the few items worth acting on.

What you get out of it

  • Hear what customers say unprompted

    Reddit threads show real complaints and wishes in plain words. Seeing them daily gives you product and marketing ideas you would not get from surveys.

  • Only new content is reported

    Each source is compared with what was seen before, so you read about changes, not the same page every day. Quiet days produce a short email or none at all.

  • A research archive that builds itself

    Every day's findings become a Notion page you can search, tag and share. Over months it becomes a useful record of how your market talks and moves.

  • Highlights you can act on

    The email picks out the few items that matter, such as a pricing change or a thread asking for a tool like yours. You can reply or react the same morning.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every morning, ClickRuntime checks each web page and subreddit on your list.

  2. It compares what it finds with the last check and keeps only new posts and changed pages.

  3. AI summarises the new content and picks out the highlights worth your attention.

  4. A dated page with the full summary is created in your Notion database, and the highlights are emailed to you from Gmail.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Google through your own Google app (a one-time, 10-minute setup), so it works with your own Gmail
  • Connect Notion and share the database you want it to use

What you get

RunsDaily or weekly
Track websites and subreddits in Notion with a daily emailtoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · Monitoring highlightsContoso raised its Pro plan from $29 to $39. A thread in r/ecommerce asks for a simpler stock alert tool for Northwind-sized shops.

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 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.
web_reddit_monitoring_stored_in_notion_with_email_report.pyexample
import base64, hashlib
from email.message import EmailMessage
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai, state

PAGES = ["https://contoso.example.com/pricing"]
SUBREDDITS = ["smallbusiness", "ecommerce"]
NOTION_DB, ME = "your-database-id", "you@example.com"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen, found = state.get("seen") or {}, []
    for url in PAGES:
        text = BeautifulSoup(http.get(url).text, "html.parser").get_text(" ", strip=True)
        digest = hashlib.sha256(text.encode()).hexdigest()
        if seen.get(url) not in (None, digest):
            found.append(f"CHANGED {url}: {text[:3000]}")
        seen[url] = digest
    for sub in SUBREDDITS:
        posts = http.get(f"https://www.reddit.com/r/{sub}/new.json?limit=25", headers={"User-Agent": "clickruntime-monitor"}).json()["data"]["children"]
        for p in (x["data"] for x in posts if x["data"]["id"] not in seen.get(sub, [])):
            found.append(f"r/{sub}: {p['title']} https://reddit.com{p['permalink']} {p.get('selftext', '')[:500]}")
        seen[sub] = [x["data"]["id"] for x in posts]
    state.set("seen", seen)
    if not found:
        return {"new": 0}
    out = ai.generate("Summarise these new items, then list the top 3 highlights after 'HIGHLIGHTS:'.\n" + "\n".join(found), max_output_tokens=1200).text
    nh = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('notion', 'work')}", "Notion-Version": "2022-06-28"}
    http.post("https://api.notion.com/v1/pages", headers=nh, json={"parent": {"database_id": NOTION_DB},
        "properties": {"Name": {"title": [{"text": {"content": f"Monitor {event.scheduled_time or 'manual'}"}}]}},
        "children": [{"paragraph": {"rich_text": [{"text": {"content": out[i:i + 1900]}}]}} for i in range(0, len(out), 1900)]})
    mail = EmailMessage()
    mail["To"], mail["Subject"] = ME, "Monitoring highlights"
    mail.set_content(out.split("HIGHLIGHTS:")[-1].strip())
    gmail = build("gmail", "v1", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
    gmail.users().messages().send(userId="me", body={"raw": base64.urlsafe_b64encode(mail.as_bytes()).decode()}).execute()
    return {"new": len(found)}

FAQ

Common questions

Which subreddits and websites can it watch?
Any public subreddit and any public web page. Pages behind a login or heavy anti-bot protection may not be readable.
How does it tell what is new?
For subreddits it remembers which posts it has already seen. For web pages it remembers a fingerprint of the page text and reports only when the text has changed.
Can I search for keywords instead of whole subreddits?
Yes. Reddit search results for a keyword, such as your product category or a competitor's name, can be watched the same way as a subreddit.
What permissions does it need?
Notion insert; Gmail 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 (daily or weekly). 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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