Weekly

Get a weekly newsletter draft from your posts

Every Friday you receive a ready-to-send newsletter with a short summary and link for each post from the week.

Runs: Weekly
Apps: WordPress
AI: Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Friday at 3pm, take the posts I published on WordPress this week, write a short newsletter with a two-line summary and link for each, and email it to me.

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 blog that publishes three posts a week usually plans a newsletter and then misses it. Collecting the links, writing intros that make people click and formatting an email takes the better part of a Friday, so the subscribers who would happily read your best posts hear from you once a quarter, if at all.

Weekly, the posts published in the past seven days are gathered from WordPress. ClickRuntime's built-in AI writes a short newsletter with an opening note, a blurb for each post and a link, and the finished text is emailed to you, ready to review and paste into your newsletter tool or forward.

Publishers who send a weekly digest to their list, and agencies who run client newsletters, tend to find this saves the most time. Subscribers receive a steady rhythm of issues rather than one big email a quarter.

What you get out of it

Your newsletter actually goes out
With the draft waiting in your inbox, sending takes minutes rather than a Friday afternoon, so the weekly habit survives a busy week. That consistency is what makes people open the next issue instead of unsubscribing.
Each post gets a proper blurb
The AI writes a short teaser for every article instead of repeating the title, which gives subscribers a reason to click through to the full post. Strong teasers also tend to raise click-through compared with plain headline lists.
Traffic returns to older work
A reliable weekly mail brings readers back to the site, so new posts get views quickly and the archive keeps earning visits. Each issue sends fresh visits to new posts, which supports their rankings early.
Reviewed before it reaches subscribers
Because the newsletter arrives as an email to you first, you can fix a phrase or cut a link before it is sent to the whole list. That check is quick and prevents mistakes from going out to hundreds of readers at once.
Consistent voice across weeks
The same prompt shapes each issue, so readers see a familiar structure and tone, which builds recognition more than a different layout every week would. Over a few months, subscribers come to recognise your newsletter in a crowded inbox.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every Friday, ClickRuntime lists the WordPress posts published in the last seven days.
AI writes a newsletter with a short intro and a summary and link for each post.
The finished newsletter arrives in your inbox, ready to send.

Before it runs live

Connect WordPress

What you get

RunsWeekly

Get a weekly newsletter draft from your poststoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · This week's newsletter (3 posts)Three new guides this week. Invoice payment terms explained: how Net 15 gets you paid faster… https://blog.example.com/invoice-payment-terms/

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 WordPress 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.

weekly_ai_newsletter_from_new_posts.pyexample

from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai, notify

SITE = "https://blog.example.com"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    after = (datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=7)).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
    posts = http.get(f"{SITE}/wp-json/wp/v2/posts", params={"after": after, "per_page": 50}).json()
    if not posts:
        return {"posts": 0}
    items = "\n\n".join(f"{p['title']['rendered']}\n{p['link']}\n{p['excerpt']['rendered'][:600]}" for p in posts)
    newsletter = ai.generate(items, max_output_tokens=900,
                             system="Write a short newsletter: one intro line, then for each post a two-line summary and its link.").text
    notify.email_me(f"This week's newsletter ({len(posts)} posts)", newsletter)
    return {"posts": len(posts)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it send the newsletter to my subscribers directly?

No, it emails the draft to you. You then review and paste it into whatever tool you use for your list, which keeps a person in control of what subscribers receive. Sending straight to a list would be a separate addition.

What if I published nothing last week?

With no new posts, there is nothing to summarise. You can ask for the run to skip the email in a quiet week, or to include your most popular older posts instead so the newsletter still has content.

Can it focus on one category, like Product News?

Yes. The post list can be limited by category or tag, so you can build a customer newsletter from Product News and a separate internal digest from other categories. Each version is its own approved change.

What permissions does it need?

read. 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 (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.

On a scheduleAI