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Weekly

Get a weekly report on your community

Every Monday your mods see who joined and which channels were busiest, compared with the week before.

Runs
Weekly
Apps
Discord
AI
Not needed
Access
bot with Server Members intent, Read Message History, Send Messages

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Monday at 9am, count how many people joined my Discord server last week and which channels had the most messages, and post it to #mods.

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 community lead can feel that a server is growing or fading, but without numbers it is only a feeling. Discord's built-in insights are limited to certain server types, and nobody has time on a Monday morning to count who joined, which channels are busy and which members have gone quiet. Decisions about where to put effort, which channels to merge and who to welcome personally end up being made on impressions.

Every Monday the automation lists members and their join dates, counts recent messages per channel, and posts a summary into a channel you pick. It also stores the counts, so the next report can show how the week compared with the one before, and a trend becomes visible within a month.

Community managers, server owners and moderators of growing public servers get the most from it.

What you get out of it

  • See growth and churn in numbers

    New-member counts per week show whether your outreach is working, and a falling number is an early warning that something changed. You can respond within weeks, not after a season of decline.

  • Spot quiet members before they leave

    A list of members who have gone silent gives you a chance to reach out personally. A short message from a moderator to someone who was active last month often brings them back.

  • Decide which channels earn their place

    Message counts per channel show which spaces are alive and which are empty. You can retire dead channels, promote busy ones and stop guessing which topics your members actually want.

  • Week-over-week context

    Storing last week's counts means each report says up or down, not just a number. A total of 400 messages means little until you know the week before it was 650.

  • Evidence for sponsors and partners

    If you want a sponsor or a partner project, steady numbers help you describe your community accurately, instead of rounding up from a vague sense of size that a prospective partner will quickly see through.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Once a week, ClickRuntime looks at your Discord server's members and the past week's messages.

  2. It counts new members and messages per channel.

  3. It compares the numbers with the week before.

  4. A short report is posted to your #mods channel with new members and the busiest channels.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Discord

What you get

RunsWeekly
Get a weekly report on your communitytoday, 9:00Succeeded
Discord · #mods**Last week** New members: 48 Busiest channels: #general 312 · #help 97

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
  • Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
  • Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
  • Combine it with other Discord 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_community_activity_report.pyexample
from collections import Counter
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, http, credentials

GUILD = "GUILD_ID"
MODS_CHANNEL = "MODS_CHANNEL_ID"

def discord(method, path, **kw):
    r = http.request(method, f"https://discord.com/api/v10{path}",
                     headers={"Authorization": f"Bot {credentials.secret('DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN')}"}, **kw)
    r.raise_for_status()
    return r.json() if r.content else None

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    since = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=7)
    members = discord("GET", f"/guilds/{GUILD}/members", params={"limit": 1000})
    joined = sum(1 for m in members if datetime.fromisoformat(m["joined_at"]) >= since)
    counts = Counter()
    for ch in discord("GET", f"/guilds/{GUILD}/channels"):
        if ch["type"] == 0:
            msgs = discord("GET", f"/channels/{ch['id']}/messages", params={"limit": 100})
            counts[ch["name"]] = sum(1 for m in msgs if datetime.fromisoformat(m["timestamp"]) >= since)
    top = "\n".join(f"#{name}: {n}" for name, n in counts.most_common(5))
    discord("POST", f"/channels/{MODS_CHANNEL}/messages",
            json={"content": f"**Last week**\nNew members: {joined}\nBusiest channels:\n{top}"})
    return {"joined": joined}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it need access to message content?
It counts messages per channel and does not need to interpret what people wrote. The bot does need permission to read message history in the channels you want counted, and the Server Members intent to see join dates.
How is a quiet member defined?
You choose the rule, for example no messages in the last thirty days. The report lists members who joined at least that long ago but have not posted since, so brand-new members are not mislabeled as inactive.
Will the first report show a trend?
The first report has nothing to compare against, so it shows current figures only. From the second week on, each report includes the change from the previous one, and the trend becomes more useful with every week stored.
What permissions does it need?
bot with Server Members intent, Read Message History, Send Messages. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's 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.

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