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Newslit Zapier integrationAutomate Newslit with Zapier.

The Newslit Zapier integration gives you 2 triggers, 0 actions and 0 searches. Both are instant: when a media intelligence report is complete, Newslit hands it to Zapier, whole or one story at a time, and your other tools take it from there.

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Overview

What the Newslit Zapier integration does for you

Newslit watches the news for you and turns it into media intelligence reports. Connected to Zapier, each finished report can leave Newslit on its own through a Zap, the automation you build on Zapier, and reach the place where you actually read and act on it, instead of waiting for you to open the app.

Three results you can build. A report your team sees without asking: Media Intelligence Report - Full Report posts the complete report to your team chat when it is done. A story log you can sort: Media Intelligence Report - By Story writes one spreadsheet row per story, so you can tag, filter and count them later. A shortlist: the same By Story trigger, behind a filter on a paid plan, keeps only the stories that meet the condition you set.

What Zapier does not do for Newslit: the app has no action and no search on Zapier. A Zap cannot create a report, change what a report covers or look up an older story. Newslit always starts the Zap and never receives anything back. Everything you configure in the reports themselves happens in Newslit.

Choosing between the two triggers is the real decision on this page, because one runs once per report and the other once per story. If you are still deciding whether Zapier fits, see our Zapier review.

Vocabulary

Zapier vocabulary, the short version

Seven words come back all along this page. Here is what each one means.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event in an app that starts the Zap. With Newslit, it is a completed media intelligence report, whole or story by story.
Action
What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or moves something. Newslit has none, so actions come from other apps.
Task
The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. The number on your plan counts those.
Polling vs instant trigger
Polling: Zapier checks an app on a timer. Instant: the app calls Zapier itself when the event happens. Both Newslit triggers are instant.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
Multi-step Zap
Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes it one, and it then needs a paid plan.
Cost

What a Newslit Zap really costs

The Newslit trigger costs no task. Only the actions after it count, one task each time one succeeds.

  • Trigger0 task
  • Each successful action1 task
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, unlimited Zaps, two steps each
  • Premium appNo, Newslit works on the free plan

That is where the choice of trigger matters: Full Report runs once per report, By Story once per story, so the same report can cost one task or many. An action that fails is not counted. Newslit is not a premium app and works on the free plan, within two steps: the Newslit trigger and one action. A filter or a second action makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. The interval grid below is for polling triggers; it does not apply to the two instant triggers of Newslit.

Connect

Connect your Newslit account to Zapier

  1. 01

    Open the Apps page

    In your Zapier account, open Apps and click + Add connection. You need a Newslit account, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.

  2. 02

    Pick Newslit

    Type Newslit in the search box of the dialog, select it in the results, then click Add connection. A new browser tab opens so you can reach your Newslit account.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Sign in to Newslit in that tab and grant Zapier access to the account. The connection is then reused by every Zap that starts with one of the two Newslit triggers.

First Zap

Your first Zap: keep a sortable log of report stories

GoalEach time a Newslit report is completed, add one spreadsheet row per story, with a two-step Zap the free plan can run.

  1. 01

    Create the Zap and pick the trigger

    Start a new Zap, choose Newslit and Media Intelligence Report - By Story, select your connection, then pick the report in the required Intelligence Report field.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items from your account, so you map the next steps on a real story. Read what came back before going on.

  3. 03

    Add the spreadsheet action

    Click the plus icon, pick your spreadsheet as the action app and its add-a-row event. Trigger plus one action keeps the Zap at two steps, so the free plan runs it.

  4. 04

    Fill the columns

    Place in each column the data the Newslit test returned for the story. Only what you see in the test can be mapped, so read it before you assign anything.

  5. 05

    Test, then publish

    Test the row once, check it in the sheet, then click Publish. If you later want to keep only some stories, a filter will need a paid plan.

Triggers

The 2 Newslit triggers

2 events start a Zap when something happens in Newslit, and 2 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

Media Intelligence Report - Full Report

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers the full media intelligence report when completed.”

Hands the whole media intelligence report to Zapier once it is complete. One report, one run of the Zap, whatever the number of stories inside.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
the report should arrive as one piece, in a team chat or an email, for people who read it from top to bottom.
Watch out
the Intelligence Report field is required. Pick the report in the trigger, and check at the test that the right one comes back.
2

Media Intelligence Report - By Story

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers on each story of a media intelligence report when completed.”

Splits a completed report into its stories and starts the Zap once for each of them. Every story becomes its own run, with its own actions.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
you want to sort, tag or count stories one by one, in a spreadsheet or a database, rather than read a block of text.
Watch out
each story costs one task per action, so a long report spends many tasks. It also needs the Intelligence Report field filled in.
When it breaks

When a Newslit Zap breaks

Instant triggers remove the waiting, not every problem. Three situations are worth knowing before you publish.

None of them is specific to Newslit; they come from how Zapier works. When a run fails for another reason, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.

  • Older reports are not sent

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after it is switched on. Reports completed before that moment never go through it, and moving them is a separate job.

  • A big batch of stories held back

    When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch at once, Zapier's flood protection can hold the runs back.

  • A filter on the free plan

    The free plan only runs two-step Zaps. A filter or a second action turns the Zap into a multi-step one, and it then needs a paid plan to run.
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FAQ

Newslit Zapier integration: frequently asked questions

01Is the Newslit Zapier integration free?
Yes. Newslit is not a premium app, so it works on the free Zapier plan. That plan gives 100 tasks a month and an unlimited number of Zaps, each limited to two steps: one Newslit trigger and one action in another tool. Posting each full report to a chat fits that limit. A filter, or a second action such as also logging the report in a sheet, makes the Zap multi-step and needs a paid plan.
02How many tasks does a Newslit Zap use?
The Newslit trigger uses none; each successful action uses one. With Full Report, a Zap with one action spends one task per report. With By Story, the same Zap spends one task per story, so a report with many stories costs many tasks. An action that fails is not counted. On the free plan's 100 tasks a month, By Story is the trigger to size first, before adding any action.
03Do Newslit triggers run in real time?
Yes. Both Newslit triggers are instant: Newslit tells Zapier when the report is complete and the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan. The plan interval grid only concerns polling triggers, which Zapier checks on a timer, so it does not apply here. In the editor, a Zap built on an instant trigger shows a lightning bolt, and the type cannot be changed: it is decided by the app itself, not from the editor.
04What does it take to connect Newslit to Zapier?
A Newslit account, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch. In Zapier, open Apps, click + Add connection, choose Newslit, click Add connection, sign in to Newslit in the tab that opens and grant access. Then, in each trigger, fill the required Intelligence Report field. The connection is reused by every Newslit Zap after that. Testing a trigger then brings back the three most recent items of that account.
05Full Report or By Story: which Newslit trigger should you pick?
Pick by how the report will be used. Full Report starts the Zap once when a report is complete, which suits a message or an email read in one go. By Story starts it once per story in that report, which suits a sheet where each story is a row you can sort. The second spends one task per story and per action, so it weighs far more on a plan's task count.
06What if the Newslit operation you want is not there?
Check the Newslit page on Zapier, which shows the current list of operations. Today it holds two triggers, both about completed media intelligence reports, and no action or search. Anything that writes into Newslit, such as creating a report or changing what it tracks, cannot be done through this integration. For everything downstream, use one of the two triggers and let your other apps do the work: sending, logging or sharing what each report contains.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Newslit?
Settle it on criteria, not on a ranking. On Zapier, Newslit offers two instant triggers, ready to pick, and the free plan runs two-step Zaps, which covers a report sent to a chat. Before looking at another tool, check whether it offers Newslit as an app, how it bills each run, a key point if you use By Story, and whether your flow needs more than two steps, such as a filter in front of each story.
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