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Get a weekly CSV of your responses

Every Friday you get the week's responses as a CSV, so you have your own copy.

Runs
Weekly
Apps
Typeform
AI
Not needed
Access
forms:read, responses:read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Friday at 5pm, email me a CSV of this week's responses to my 'Event registration' Typeform.

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

Typeform results live inside Typeform, and exporting them is a manual job that gets done only when someone needs the data urgently. A researcher or operations lead who wants a copy for analysis, a client report or a safety backup has to log in, open the form, choose a date range and download a file. When the plan changes or an account is lost, history can go with it.

Every week, this pages through the responses collected over the last seven days, maps each field to a column and emails you a CSV file. Over time, the weekly files build a complete archive of your responses outside Typeform.

It works well for surveys, applications and registration forms that you need in spreadsheet form. It is dull work that is easy to forget, which is exactly why it is worth handing off.

What you get out of it

  • A copy outside Typeform

    Weekly files in your inbox mean the data survives an account problem or a plan downgrade. You can restore your records, and you are not locked into one provider for your history.

  • Ready for a spreadsheet

    The CSV opens in Excel or Google Sheets, with a column per question. Analysts can filter, pivot and chart immediately, without reformatting an export from another tool. Analysts can start straight away.

  • No manual export chore

    Nobody needs to remember to log in and download a file. The export arrives regardless of who is on holiday, which is helpful for forms owned by a team and not one person.

  • Good for audits and compliance

    Dated weekly files give a record of what was collected and when. If someone asks for evidence of an application or a consent answer, you can find it in the archive.

  • Easy to share with others

    A weekly file can be forwarded to a client, a partner or a colleague who does not have Typeform access. They get the data without a login or a lesson in using the tool.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Once a week, ClickRuntime collects every response your Typeform received in the last seven days.

  2. It lays the answers out in columns, one row per response, with the question titles as headers.

  3. You get an email with the number of responses and the CSV, ready to open in Excel or Google Sheets.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Typeform

What you get

RunsWeekly
Get a weekly CSV of your responsestoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · Event registration CSVEvent registration: 37 responses this week submitted_at,Name,Email,Company

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 Typeform 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_csv_export_backup.pyexample
import csv, io
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, http, credentials, notify

FORM_ID = "EVENT_REGISTRATION_FORM_ID"

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

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    fields = typeform("GET", f"/forms/{FORM_ID}")["fields"]
    since = (datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=7)).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
    items = typeform("GET", f"/forms/{FORM_ID}/responses", params={"since": since, "page_size": 1000})["items"]
    out = io.StringIO()
    w = csv.writer(out)
    w.writerow(["submitted_at"] + [f["title"] for f in fields])
    for r in items:
        vals = {}
        for a in r.get("answers") or []:
            v = a.get(a["type"])
            vals[a["field"]["id"]] = v.get("label") if isinstance(v, dict) else v
        w.writerow([r["submitted_at"]] + [vals.get(f["id"], "") for f in fields])
    notify.email_me(f"Event registration: {len(items)} responses this week", out.getvalue())
    return {"responses": len(items)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does each CSV include only that week's responses?
Yes. Each file covers the last seven days, so the files do not overlap. To rebuild a complete dataset, combine the weekly files, or ask for a periodic full export if you want one. Combine them in a spreadsheet.
How are question names turned into columns?
Each question title becomes a column header and each answer fills the cell below. If your form has long or duplicate question titles, ask for shorter header names so the sheet is easier to read.
Is it a problem if a response contains personal data?
The file contains whatever the form collected, so treat it with the same care as the form itself. You can leave out sensitive columns, and should store the files according to your data policy. Store the files securely.
What permissions does it need?
forms:read, responses:read. 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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