Find new PDFs online and post AI summaries to Discord

The system checks a website for new PDFs, has AI summarize each one, and posts the summary to Discord.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each new pdf found.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

flowchart TD trig(["scheduled website check"]):::trigtime s0[["download new PDF"]]:::mi s1["extract and summarize content"]:::task s2["post summary to Discord"]:::svc s3[("log processed file")]:::store trig --> s0 s0 --> s1 s1 --> s2 s2 --> s3 out[/"Discord summary for each new PDF"/]:::out pay{{"stay updated without manual checking"}}:::pay s3 --> out out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff
Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsDocument Processing & OCRSpreadsheet & Database OpsWeb Scraping & Data Collection
Connects
Google SheetsOpenRouterDiscord

The problem it solves

You need to keep track of new documents published on a website, but checking manually and reading each PDF takes time you don't have. Important updates get missed or read late.

Who it fits

Teams or researchers who need to monitor a website for new documents without checking it themselves.

How it works

  1. The system checks a target website for new PDF files
  2. New PDFs are downloaded automatically
  3. The content is extracted and sent to AI for summarization
  4. The summary is posted to a Discord channel
  5. Processed files are logged in Google Sheets to avoid duplicates
What you get

New documents you find without searching

You get an AI summary posted to Discord every time a new PDF shows up on a website you're watching.

What you get

A Discord summary for every new document found, with a log of what's already been processed.

What you need

A Google account with Sheets access, an OpenRouter API key, and a Discord 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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