Collect and summarize daily news in Google Sheets automatically

Pulls fresh English and Japanese news each day, summarizes it with AI, and logs it to a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each news article found.

Pattern: Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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Starts itAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Translation & LocalizationSpreadsheet & Database OpsReporting & AnalyticsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
NewsAPIOpenAIGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

You want to keep an eye on news in more than one language, but manually searching, reading, and summarizing articles every day eats up time you do not have. Important stories get missed when you can only check a couple of times a week.

Who it fits

Teams or individuals who need a quick, regular digest of news across languages.

How it works

  1. A daily schedule kicks off the search
  2. The system pulls the latest articles matching your keywords from NewsAPI
  3. OpenAI writes a short summary of each article
  4. The summaries and links are added to a Google Sheet
What you get

Daily news digest you never assemble yourself

You get a fresh, bilingual roundup of the day's news waiting in your spreadsheet each morning, already summarized and ready to skim.

What you get

A running Google Sheet log of daily news summaries with links to the original articles.

What you need

A NewsAPI key, an OpenAI API key, and a Google Sheets account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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