Weekly Tasty trends digest for your content team in Slack
Every Monday at 9am, post a curated shortlist of the most distinctive recipes trending on Tasty this week into your content team's Slack channel.
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Slack BotMarketingContent GenerationDaily DigestsResearch & MonitoringEvery Monday at 9am New York time, run a weekly "what's trending on Tasty this week" digest and post it into our content team's Slack channel so our food writers and social team start the week with a shortlist of riffable recipes.
Step 1: pull the feed. Call Tasty's List Feeds operation with our timezone in +hhmm format (for example -0500 for New York). That returns the latest homepage feed items, which is the trending mix we want to riff on.
Step 2: editorial pick. Use your judgement to pick the three or four most distinctive recipes from that feed. Vary cuisine across the picks, skip anything that looks like a near-duplicate of last week's picks, and favour recipes with strong visual potential (great hero photo, eye-catching colour, clear hook). Do not just take the top three off the top of the feed.
Step 3: optional remix angle. For each pick, optionally call Tasty's List Similar Recipes operation if seeing nearby recipes helps you suggest a sharper "remix angle" the content team could write about. Skip this call for picks where the angle is already obvious.
Step 4: post the digest. Use the Slack Bot Send a Message operation to post a single nicely-formatted message into our content team's Slack channel. For each recipe include the title, the image, the prep time, the Tasty link, and a one-line content-angle suggestion such as "summer twist on a comfort classic" or "5-ingredient TikTok hook". Use Slack's mrkdwn formatting and keep everything in one message (not a thread). Keep the layout tight enough that the whole digest reads in under 30 seconds.
Make the Slack channel, the timezone, the number of picks, and the editorial brief easy to edit later so the marketing lead can tune it without rebuilding the workflow.
Additional information
What does this prompt do?
- Pulls this week's featured items from Tasty's homepage feed every Monday morning.
- Picks the three or four most distinctive recipes, varying cuisine and skipping near-duplicates of last week's picks.
- Suggests a one-line content angle for each recipe so writers have a starting hook (a summer twist, a 5-ingredient TikTok riff, a comfort-food remix).
- Posts a single tight Slack message your food writers and social team can scan in under 30 seconds.
What do I need to use this?
- A Tasty API key from RapidAPI. The free Basic plan covers a weekly run with room to spare.
- A Slack workspace with a channel where your content team hangs out, with the Geni bot added to it.
- The timezone you want the feed pulled in (for example New York or London) so the trending list matches your audience.
How can I customize it?
- Change the day or time it runs. Fridays at noon for a weekend planning shot, or Sunday night before the week begins.
- Swap the destination. Point it at a private content-team channel, a marketing brainstorm room, or even a DM to the editor.
- Tune the editorial brief. Ask for more picks, fewer picks, only quick weeknight meals, only desserts, or only recipes with bold visual potential.
Frequently asked questions
Where do the trending recipes come from?
Will it keep recommending the same recipes week after week?
Do I need a paid Tasty or RapidAPI plan?
Can I change the editorial style of the picks?
Does this post as a bot or as me?
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Stop scrambling for content ideas every Monday morning.
Connect Tasty and Slack once, and Geni delivers a riffable shortlist of trending recipes to your content team every Monday at 9am.