Track new EU events and meetings automatically in Google Sheets

Checks the EU's official events portal daily and logs new meetings and conferences to Google Sheets.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; runs once per each listing page.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

flowchart TD trig(["daily portal check"]):::trigtime s0[["visit EU events portal"]]:::mi s1["read event listings"]:::task s2["extract event details"]:::task trig --> s0 s0 --> s1 s1 --> s2 gx{"× already logged"}:::gate s2 --> gx p00["skip event"]:::task gx -->|"duplicate event"| p00 p10["log new event"]:::task gx -->|"new event"| p10 p00 --> out p10 --> out out[/"new EU events logged"/]:::out pay{{"never miss an event"}}:::pay 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 stepRuns once per itemOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsWeb Scraping & Data Collection
Connects
Google Sheets

The problem it solves

Checking a government events website every day just to catch a relevant meeting or summit is a waste of your time. It's easy to miss an event that matters to your work if you're not watching constantly.

Who it fits

A policy, sustainability, or research team that needs to stay on top of official EU events.

How it works

  1. Every day, the system visits the EU events portal
  2. It reads through the listed pages, including new ones
  3. Each event's name, date, location, type, and link are pulled out
  4. Events already logged are skipped so nothing is duplicated
  5. New events are logged in a Google Sheet
What you get

EU events you'd otherwise never see

You get a running list of new EU meetings and conferences the moment they're posted, without checking the portal yourself.

What you get

A running Google Sheet of new EU events with dates, locations, and links.

What you need

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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